People have favorite flavors, but what about ants? Which ant food is the most popular?

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

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.

Water can go from solid to liquid to gas...but how does popcorn go from kernel to snack? Invite your first grade scientist to find out.

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

This science fair project idea investigates which objects float and sink in honey, water, and oil.

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.

Think you can blow up a balloon without using your mouth? This isn't just a cool trick, it's also a great way to introduce chemistry and biology concepts.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Science fair project idea that examines different physical characteristics of a chosen animal. Make educated guesses about evolution based on animal's form.

With Halloween right around the corner, find a way to use your brain and reward your tummy with a new type of science -- candy science!

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

Uh-oh! Is that a pill sitting on the counter or a piece of candy?

Is our water polluted? Help your young scientist understand the importance of taking care of the environment with this simple experiment.

Your child might have noticed how bubbles quickly lose their colors and pop. Check out this creative way to make those bubbles last longer.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

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.

The goal of this fun science fair project idea is to microwave candy and investigate: do some colors of M&Ms melt faster than others?

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Kids will explore the corrosiveness of soda in this cool science fair project by leaving pennies submerged in soda overnight.

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

This science experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

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