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Kids often ask, "how tall am I?" This science fair project seeks to determine how well kids can guess their own heights.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to build a tall tower out of building bricks! The instructions include questions prompts to guide students through the design challenge.

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

In this science fair project, you'll make a "ghost" appear in a test tube, and learn about what happens when hot water and cold water interact.

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

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

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

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.

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 fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

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

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

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.

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!

Can you dig it? This science experiment isn't for kids who like to keep their hands clean.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

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

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

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