Water can go from solid to liquid to gas...but how does popcorn go from kernel to snack? Invite your first grade scientist to find out.

Your child might have noticed how bubbles quickly lose their colors and pop. Check out this creative way to make those bubbles last longer.

In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.

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!

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.

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

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 homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of kindergarten science.

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

Make meringues with your first grader and see how states of matter can transform before your very eyes. Here's how:

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

Here's a science activity that lets a first grader use an empty dish detergent bottle to create his own fountain as he explores air pressure.

This science exploration lets your first grader see how eggs can provide a perfect environment for a living, growing creature.

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

Help your first grader explore the world of scientific measurement by "weighing" fruit with a "water scale"!

Play this flashlight game with your child to teach him about objects that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.

How do we know that air exists when we can't see it, taste it, or touch it? Here's a classic experiment that will teach your kid some basics of aerodynamics!

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

Your kid can learn about the process of making frozen yogurt and enjoy a homemade, flavorful dessert. Experiment with this fun, chilly food!

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

Explore solids and liquids with your young scientist by making gluep, a goopy substance that can behave like both a solid and a liquid!

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

Engineers in training can get started with this simple wheel-and-axle construction activity.

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!