Fifth Grade Activities
Mother's Day Coupons
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Mother's Day Coupons
Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
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Design Challenge: Inflate a Balloon
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Design Challenge: Inflate a Balloon
In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.
3rd grade
Science
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Design Your Own Planet
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Design Your Own Planet
In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.
Preschool
Science
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Probability Dice Game
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Probability Dice Game
Check out this dice game perfect for teaching your savvy kid the fundamentals of probability.
5th grade
Math
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Teacher Appreciation: Design an Eco-Friendly Thank-You Card
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Teacher Appreciation: Design an Eco-Friendly Thank-You Card
Turn an empty cereal box into a teacher appreciation card in this eco-friendly craft project!
5th grade
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Make Art Like Mary Blair
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Make Art Like Mary Blair
Reinforce your child’s understanding of geometry and 2D shapes while learning about the artist Mary Blair and her amazing contributions to many loved movies, books, and characters throughout her career.
Preschool
Math
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Reuse Markers to Create Liquid Watercolors
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Reuse Markers to Create Liquid Watercolors
Teach children how to upcycle dried-out markers with this homemade paint-making activity!
Preschool
Fine arts
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Design Challenge: Making a Parachute
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Design Challenge: Making a Parachute
In this design challenge, your child will create a parachute for a small toy using typical household items.
3rd grade
Science
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Make a Mother's Day Book
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Make a Mother's Day Book
As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Make a Magic Leprechaun Pouch
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Make a Magic Leprechaun Pouch
Perform a special St. Patrick's Day magic trick with this fun craft project!
4th grade
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Mother's Day Carnations
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Mother's Day Carnations
Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.
5th grade
Social studies
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Design Challenge: Making a Solar Oven
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Design Challenge: Making a Solar Oven
In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake s'mores!
3rd grade
Science
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Design and Build a City
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Design and Build a City
Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.
3rd grade
Science
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Design Challenge: Egg Drop
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Design Challenge: Egg Drop
In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.
3rd grade
Science
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Explore Genetics by Finding Family Traits!
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Explore Genetics by Finding Family Traits!
For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!
5th grade
Science
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What is Your Dream?
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What is Your Dream?
Invite your child to craft dream cloud magnets to display their hopes and visions for the future!
2nd grade
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Make a Timeline of an Influential Person
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Make a Timeline of an Influential Person
Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.
2nd grade
Social studies
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El Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Community Altar
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El Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Community Altar
El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days
Preschool
Social studies
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Perform to Help the Earth
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Perform to Help the Earth
In this inspiring activity, children create and perform their very own Reader’s Theater about helping the planet!
2nd grade
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Bunny Cake
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Bunny Cake
If you're looking for just the right dessert to serve with your Easter dinner, try your hand at an Easter Bunny cake.
5th grade
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Passover Card
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Passover Card
Help your fifth grader create an art card that celebrates the enduring values of Passover.
5th grade
Social studies
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Carrot Salad
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Carrot Salad
Serve this seasonal carrot salad at Easter brunch this year, and it just might hop onto your family's list of healthy favorites.
5th grade
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Mother's Day Painting
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Mother's Day Painting
Show your young artist how to celebrate Mary Cassatt, an Impressionist painter, by creating a mother-child painting in her style.
4th grade
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Superhero Research Project
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Superhero Research Project
In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
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Explore Soil Erosion
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Explore Soil Erosion
Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.
3rd grade
Science
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Easy Fudge
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Easy Fudge
This Mother's Day, mix in some fifth grade science learning to create this fabulous fudge!
5th grade
Science
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"Roots and Wings" Card
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"Roots and Wings" Card
Make an elegant Mother's Day card to celebrate the love and work in raising kids.
5th grade
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Managing Emotions
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Managing Emotions
Children learn about mindfulness tools that may support them to manage their emotions. Then they will create their own video to teach others these same mindfulness tools.
4th grade
Social emotional
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