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

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.

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

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

Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

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

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.

What is surface tension? Kids will discover how water-skating insects use surface tension to keep from sinking by making a model water walker.

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

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

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

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.

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

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

This science experiment has students test whether a snail moves faster on concrete or dirt.

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

The objective of this science project is to determine the length of time for different seeds to germinate.

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

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

This science fair project teaches about mold. Students will test different foods to see which grow mold the fastest.

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

Find out whether we can create motion in a dish and as a result, create a wonderful and colorful show.

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

In this science fair experiment, children demonstrate the relationship between the amount of stuff and the amount of pressure in a closed system.