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

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!

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.

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

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

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!

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

In this science fair project, kids observe the expansion of liquids when frozen and determine if some liquids expand more than others in the freezing process.