1st Grade Engineering and Science Inquiry Activities

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

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.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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.

Teach your first grade scientist the difference between liquids and solids using maple syrup.

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 science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

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

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

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

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 activity is a fun challenge for students who have just started learning to program educational robots.

In this activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!