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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

The goal of this fun science fair project idea is to microwave candy and investigate: do some colors of M&Ms melt faster than others?

This project examines whether people's taste perception is influenced by what they see.

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

This science fair project idea investigates how the shape of an object affects drag.

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

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?

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

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