Elementary School Engineering and Science Inquiry Activities : Page 8

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

When you cut a flower to put into a vase, it'll eventually wilt, even with water and sunshine. But is there another scientific secret to keeping flowers fresh?

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

Have your child kick off their summer vacation by making a miniature water slide!

While your cells are much too small to see without a microscope, you can create the look of a cell in your very own home with just an egg and vinegar!

This science fair project teaches students the differences between fruits and vegetables.

How does the size of a vibrating surface affect the pitch of a drum? Learn about drum size and pitch with this easy science fair project idea.

Learn about the layers of the Earth and make a model! Create a earth layer book, cake, or clay diagram.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

This science fair idea examines hydrogel superabsorbent polymer crystals. They can absorb 500 times their weight in water. Can they absorb other liquids too?

In this science fair project, apply the principles of leverage and force by building six simple machines designed to set weights in motion.

Science fair project which measures whether tsunamis are more destructive when they are caused by an earthquake or by a meteor.

Examine which metal conducts more heat by boiling water in 3 pans made of aluminum, copper, and stainless steel.

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

What is a wedge? Kids find out by experimenting with different wedges in this simple science fair project idea.

In this enlightening transpiration experiment, kids will explore how the loss of water from plants through transpiration contributes to the water cycle.

Science fair project which teaches you about the principles of physics within a vacuum by creating a vacuum chamber.

How does frost form? How fast does it form? Do this simple science project using a plastic glass, rock salt and some water to learn about deposition.

Kids conduct a cool balloon rocket experiment in this fun science fair project idea. Does a greater volume of air mean a greater distance traveled?

Kids will learn how to measure the viscosity of liquids by making their own homemade viscometer in this great science fair project idea.

Set up a fun guessing game for your curious kindergartener, one that will test her ability to use all five of her senses.

It's not actually that hard to get energy from garbage! Kids learn how to make biogas in the form of methane with this cool and easy science fair project idea.

Learn about the role of Earth's rotation on the Coriolis Effect and hurricanes in this science project. Model the Coriolis Effect on a hurricane's direction.

Is it magic? No...it's the amazing, gravity-defying capillary action experiment! Kids will love this dramatic and enlightening science fair project.

Want to see a great example of Newton's first law? Kids will learn about basic physics with this fun, ballistic experiment.

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

Learn about the fruit fly life cycle in this experiment. Capture fruit flies to examine various stages of insect metamorphosis.

In this experiment, you'll make a seafloor spreading model to learn more about how plate tectonics work and create mid-ocean ridges.

Discover that the absorbency of fabrics depend largely on the shape and structure of the individual fibers that make up the fabric.