1st - 6th Grade Science Activities : Page 32

Your child can use leaves and grass to create his own outdoor art in celebration of Earth Day...all he needs are is the great outdoors and some creativity!

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

What is the hydrologic cycle and how does it work? Check out this fun and easy science project where you will model and learn about Earth's water cycle!

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

Science fair project in which you will learn more about the natural world by preserving and identifying different animal tracks.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.

In this fun science experiment, kids will determine the best method for ripening avocados and discover the cool chemical reaction that makes this possible.

Kids often ask, "how tall am I?" This science fair project seeks to determine how well kids can guess their own heights.

Develop your child's mathematical and engineering skills with this fun building brick challenge. In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create a boat out of building bricks.

Here's a fun science experiment that's refreshingly tasty too! Turn regular water into a tasty treat perfect for consuming on a hot day.

An home science experiment for older students that teaches about the science behind heat.

Find out whether putting something on top of a plant will inhibit its growth.

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

Find out which kind of bubble wrap fares best when put in impact.

Has your kid noticed how much bigger the moon looks when it's low in the sky? Here's an activity you can do to show them that it's just an optical illusion.

This science fair project idea explores plant growth from a bulb, root, and a stem and investigates asexual plant reproduction.

Ever wonder why refrigerator lights turn off when you close the door? Does the darkness prevent food from spoiling? This experiment, determines just that.

In this experiment, your child will create two compost bins and see if he can determine what attracts fruit flies.

In this activity, your kid will watch coal turn into crystals right before her very eyes, and learn some science along the way!

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

Science fair project that develops latent fingerprints on a non-porous objects by converting superglue from a solid state to a gaseous state.

In this activity, students will think about the form and function of household objects as they compare and contrast kitchen serving spoons of various sizes and designs.

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

What is biodiversity? Kids will study different areas of their backyards to see which is the most diverse to learn about biodiversity and random sampling.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

This science fair project idea examines whether boys and girls differ in reflexes.

The rock cycle will come alive for your child when he uses broken crayons to create the three basic rock types.

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.