Kindergarten and 1st Grade Engineering and Science Inquiry Resources : Page 4

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

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

Create your very own scented hand sanitizer that will help your child to keep those nasty germs at bay!

In this science fair project, young children notice and track changes in trees throughout the year.

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

Learn how different types of soil affect how animal tracks form in this experiment!

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

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

In this kindergarten activity your child will create a map of your house and use a magnet to move pictures of your family through the house!

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

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

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

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

Magnets may hold up papers on the fridge, but is it the paper that attracts them? Find out more with this kindergarten science investigation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This science experiment tests why guacamole goes brown and if leaving the pit in will stop guacamole from turning brown.

This science fair project introduces children to static electricity and the idea that electricity is more than lights and plugs.

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

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

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.

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

The objective of this science project is to determine the length of time for different seeds to germinate.

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.