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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

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

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.

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

This science fair project idea teaches that time always passes at the same rate and nothing we do in our daily life âreallyâ affects how fast it moves.

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

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