This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

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.

In this project children discover, identify, and sort seeds from a variety of fruits and vegetables

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.

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

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

This science fair project idea determines if the size of the parachute will change the rate at which an object falls.

First grade science often covers solids, liquids, and gases. This silly science explores serious facts about the difference between all three.

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

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

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.

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

Cinnamon is tasty, but does it have super powers as well? Find out if cinnamon can repel mosquitoes in this outdoorsy experiment.

This science fair project idea determines which method of hand cleansing is the most effective.

This science fair project idea explores how length affects the weight a bridge can hold.

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

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

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

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

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