1st - 3rd Grade Science Activities : Page 6

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.

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

Demonstrate the properties of pressure and surface tension to explain how water can stay inside an upside down glass using cardboard.

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.

Help your kid feel like a superhero with this safe and fun science experiment that creates an electrical charge that's like a mini lightning bolt!

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

Your second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.

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?

Science fair project that examines what causes thunder and why a thunderclap sounds so loud. How is lightening related to the creation of sound waves?

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

In this experiment you observe and determine how well your cat uses his whiskers to navigate through a maze.

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

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

Discover whether cold or hot water from the faucet will boil faster on the stove.

What is topography? Kids find out by learning to make and read a topographic map in this awesome science fair project idea.

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

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

This science fair project idea examines the reason boats are shaped and engineered.

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

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

Let your young scientist explore a brave new world of sound with an experiment that just requires a handful of common household items.

Learn about sound physics and do a survey experiment to explore the difference between sound and noise in this science project.

How does salinity affect the point at which water freezes? Kids will find out by performing this cool melting ice experiment.

This science fair project idea explores the egg's thin membrane.

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.

Learn how to make a food pyramid with animals in a a coniferous forest ecosystem around your home.

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.