1st Grade Engineering and Science Inquiry Resources : Page 3

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

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

This experiment challenges students to forecast the weather based on the surrounding areas' weather.

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

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.

In this science fair project, students learn how pressure can make the minerals in a rock line up in the same direction and form bands and foliation.

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

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

Find out whether we can create motion in a dish and as a result, create a wonderful and colorful show.

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

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

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

What is surface tension? Kids will discover how water-skating insects use surface tension to keep from sinking by making a model water walker.

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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Uh-oh! Is that a pill sitting on the counter or a piece of candy?

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

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

Science fair project that develops latent fingerprints on a non-porous objects by converting superglue from a solid state to a gaseous state.

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

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.

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

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

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?

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

In this science fair project, kids measure how weather conditions affect how fast a puddle evaporates.

What do worms eat? Kids find out what kinds of rotting leaves and vegetables worms prefer in this cool compost science fair project.

In this science fair experiment, children demonstrate the relationship between the amount of stuff and the amount of pressure in a closed system.