Kindergarten and 1st Grade Engineering and Science Inquiry Activities : Page 3

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.

This project makes young children uniquely aware of their sense of touch and its ability to alone give them information about the world around them.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

In this activity, you'll send your kindergartener on a scavenger hunt to find sounds and create a sound recording. Here's how!

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

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.

Checkerboard play challenges students to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking.

Help children understand the power of germs and the importance of hand washing with this visual activity that introduces the concept of scientific inquiry.

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

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

This science experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.

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

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

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.

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.

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

This simple project makes young children aware of their sense of smell and its capacity for providing them with information about their world.

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 project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

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

This science fair idea is a great way for kids to explore static electricity. Kids will give a comb a static charge and watch as it separates pepper from salt.

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

People have favorite flavors, but what about ants? Which ant food is the most popular?

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

In this science fair project, we'll explore how blocking the sun's light can stop those can stop photosensitive paper from changing color.

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

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