2nd Grade Science Activities : Page 3

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

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

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

There are many benefits to bugs and insects. This science project shows how cockroaches, termites, and other critters benefit our planet.

How can we describe the relationship of magnetic field strength vs. distance? Kids will find out with this free science fair project idea.

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

Make a wish upon a tree with this craft that also helps your child learn more about Chinese culture.

The goal of this evaporation experiment is to learn about how different external conditions affect drying time.

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

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.

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

When you cut a flower to put into a vase, it'll eventually wilt, even with water and sunshine. But is there another scientific secret to keeping flowers fresh?

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

This science fair project teaches students the differences between fruits and vegetables.

How does the size of a vibrating surface affect the pitch of a drum? Learn about drum size and pitch with this easy science fair project idea.

Learn about the layers of the Earth and make a model! Create a earth layer book, cake, or clay diagram.

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

Help your child experiment with the combination of acid and baking soda by making these homemade bath bombs!

Help your child understand the scientific concept of evaporation with this fun outdoor science activity.

What is a wedge? Kids find out by experimenting with different wedges in this simple science fair project idea.

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

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!

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

In this science fair project, students use the streak test to tell minerals apart from each other.

Science fair project that examines condensation and the conditions needed in order for dew to form.