5th graders enjoy hands-on learning experiences and are eager to explore topics like biology, chemistry, and physics. Through exciting experiments they will apply scientific principles while honing observation skills.
Kids will love this messy experiment that teaches them about water density and surface tension, polymers, and creating their own bouncy balls!
Convection Currents
By fifth grade, students take more control in designing and conducting their own science experiments. These thrilling endeavors encourage curiosity, develop learning passions, and stimulate interest in both chemistry and physics for kids.
Students can easily learn about convection currents with this straightforward experiment involving food coloring and bottles of hot and cold water. Students can also study density using this fun activity which tests the floatability of different liquids.
Density
Students will discover density with these hands-on experiments. They’ll see how size, mass and molecular arrangement have an effect on an object’s density.
Young scholars will expand on the classic sink-and-float experiment by exploring how salt and temperature influence water density, using paper chromatography to separate black ink into its constituent colors, as well as engaging in thrilling ventures that will inspire curiosity and develop passions for learning! All of these exciting endeavors will foster curiosity while inspiring passion for knowledge!
Lava Lamp
Children can gain insight into convection currents and density while creating their very own lava lamp with household materials like an Alka-Seltzer tablet, water, and vegetable oil. This interactive experiment is sure to keep kids engaged!
lava lamps contain hardware comprised of zinc that is mined globally with most production occurring in China. Glass itself is composed of silica sand, limestone and soda ash with tungsten filaments (What Is Glass?).
Hydrophobic Sand
Magic Sand, commonly referred to as an exciting toy for kids, features a hydrophobic coating which repels water molecules. Children can test this special sand against regular sand to understand how hydrophilic and hydrophobic materials operate.
Fifth graders are ready to take more responsibility in designing and conducting scientific experiments, and these physics projects provide just that with adorable marker stick man experiments and air pressure experiments.
Bouncy Balls
Build super bouncy balls out of glue and Borax for an engaging science activity to explore density and chemistry! This activity is also great way to get kids engaged in science!
Kids can discover their dominant hand, foot or eye with this straightforward experiment. Additionally, they can gain knowledge about static electricity with Dry Ice Bubbles, and understand their heart’s pumping action with Marshmallow Heartbeat Models.
Water Striders
Students will put their engineering skills to the test in this exciting and engaging project. By creating their own water strider bug, they’ll learn more about its unique movement on water surfaces.
This experiment shows how hydrophobic legs and surface tension enable water strider insects to walk on water surfaces without getting their legs wet, as well as teaching engineering design process principles. Fifth graders should be able to complete this hands-on project independently.
Static Electricity
Static electricity can cause that shocking feeling you get when touching doorknobs or taking off your hat in winter, as well as make your hair stand up when taking it off. Its source lies in an imbalance in electric charges within objects called atoms; opposing charges attract each other while like ones repel each other.
Students can test their engineering abilities with this engaging physics experiment using clothespins and wood craft sticks, learning about potential and kinetic energies as they launch their creations from a clothespin launcher.
Heartbeat Marshmallows
At fifth grade, children can begin taking on more responsibility in designing and conducting science fair projects. These exciting endeavors foster curiosity while cultivating learning passions – which all culminates in creating exciting young scientists!
Let your children experiment with dry ice and soap to gain insight into sublimation with this engaging experiment, complete with heartbeat monitoring. Plus, this engaging activity offers them an educational lesson on density calculation!
Water Pollution
By 5th grade, students gain more independence in designing and performing their own science experiments. From testing how salt affects boiling water to creating their own barometer, this project gives students an opportunity to demonstrate scientific skills with tangible results.
Water pollution refers to any presence of contaminants in our water supply that have an adverse impact on human and ecological health. Common sources include industrial and municipal waste discharges, fertilizers and pesticides used in agriculture as well as other chemicals used for farming practices.
Newspaper Engineering
By 5th grade, students should assume more independence when designing and conducting science fair experiments, including those they can complete on their own (with minimal adult assistance).
They could conduct trials to make paper airplanes fly better or create newspaper towers to see which designs can withstand both self-weight and wind loads.