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This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

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

Wiggly worms are known for staying buried in the soil, but how does that affect plants? Are earthworms and plant growth related?

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!

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

How do people move pianos and heavy furniture into tall buildings? Show your kids some pulley potential with this simple household exercise!

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

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

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

Put an oatmeal box, a flashlight, and some construction paper together and you have the makings of an incredibly cool bedroom planetarium!

Hunt for natureâs treasure, the many different products made by trees!

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

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.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

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

Learn how to be a bird scientist in this simple project of watching feathered friends in their habitat.

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

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

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.