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.

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

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!

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

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

This science fair project teaches about mold. Students will test different foods to see which grow mold the fastest.

In this activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.

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 activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

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

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

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

The goal of this fun science fair project idea is to microwave candy and investigate: do some colors of M&Ms melt faster than others?

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

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.

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.

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

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.

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

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.