Your 1st grade scientist will improve her observation skills as she's encouraged to eat healthy by comparing the dry and fresh fruit in this experiment.

Conduct a simple experiment with your child to study how dirt tracks change as they age in this 1st grade science activity.

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

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

Satisfy your sweet tooth with this easy summer activity! Make homemade ice cream and let your child practice his science skills.

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

In this activity, your child will be challenged to build a tall tower out of building bricks! The instructions include questions prompts to guide students through the design challenge.

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

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

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.

Camouflage is one of the most important animal adaptations in the African savanna biome. Kids create their own camouflage with this fun science fair project.

Why does purple cheese look nasty? Because color plays a big part in how we perceive the taste of different foods. Are birds just like us in this respect?

Lead your first grader on a nature walk ... with a scavenger hunt-style twist! They'll try to capture photos that correspond to paint chip colors.

This science fair project idea demonstrates how air resistance contributes to denser objects falling faster than less dense objects.

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

This science experiment tests why guacamole goes brown and if leaving the pit in will stop guacamole from turning brown.

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

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

Can you dig it? This science experiment isn't for kids who like to keep their hands clean.