Fifth Grade

Are there really specific taste areas of the tongue for sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami? Find out for yourself in this cool science project.

Sink or swim? Calculate the density of various fruits and vegetables using water and a kitchen scale.

So for the last few weeks I've been working on a big summer project. I wanted to transform an old board game with missing pieces into an educational classroom game that focuses on biomes and animal adaptations. Specifically, I wanted this game to be used with my biome trading cards!

We're all about outer space in room 52. The planets, comets, meteors, the Moon, and everything else in between have absolutely positively taken over.

Explore one of the great mysteries of the universe with this space science worksheet on black holes.

This activity will introduce your child to the four different components of blood and give him a fun way to visualize its properties.

Help your fifth grader execute this experiment involving a lit candle (submerged in water!) to show him the wonders of heat energy transference.

We started out in a circle and made a circle with our arms to represent the sun, then wiped our brow because of the heat, slowly evaporated up towards the sky, shivered and condensed into a cloud (puffed out checks), pretended to be weighed down and began to fall to the ground,and clap out the sound of rain with our hands. Finally, we crawled back to our spot to represent the water returning to the oceans, rivers, and lakes. We did this a couple of times to show that the water cycle never ends. Click on the picture to grab of copy of the water cycle bracelet guide.

This experiment uses a yeast solution, liquid detergent, and hydrogen peroxide to produce an exciting reaction like no other!

Kids learn about the Earth's solid and atmospheric layers, then label the diagram with the correct terms in this fifth grade Earth science worksheet.

An education blog about STEM and science topics like easy ways to use STEM in the elementary classroom, using materials, and tons of helpful hints.

Why do zombies love brains? Find out with this collection of fun facts and a colorful diagram of the brain.

We do this lesson every year on the first day of school, and it does a fantastic job of getting students excited about science. I thought it would be nice to post it now because you have to get together some materials that most of us probably don't have on hand.

A fun way to introduce the Periodic Table of Elements. Write your name using the element symbols, add the atomic number and name of the element.

Learn with makes water molecules work with this fun and easy science activity!

My two fifth grade classes spent the month of December studying Earth Science. They completed an Earth Layer project at home and an Earth Science slide show on their Chrome books in class.