1st and 2nd Grade Science Activities : Page 3

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

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Kids will learn how to make a thermometer to to explore liquid density in this great science fair project. Which liquids are affected by temperature the most?

Milk is made of water and fat; but how can you separate the two? Find out in this color changing milk experiment.

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

Plants and light seem to be good buddies, but how far does the friendship really go?

Make edible amber fossils with your second grader to explore the fascinating world of science!

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Kids will make a beautiful rainbow in a jar and learn what enables different types of liquids to remain distinct in separate layers.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

Your kid can learn about the process of making frozen yogurt and enjoy a homemade, flavorful dessert. Experiment with this fun, chilly food!

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

In this free science fair project idea, we learn about surface tension and how it can support mass—in this case, a floating paper clip.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

How does a kazoo, the strings of a guitar, or the speaker of a radio make sound? The purpose of this science fair project is to show how vibration makes sound.

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

Is it possible to trick the forces of nature that make your bubbles round to create a square bubble?

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

Be a chemist for a day and study the simple reaction between sugar and heat. Try heating sugar and see what happens!

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.