Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Science Activities : Page 12

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

This super fun science project, perfect for young children, combines crafts, dressing up as animals, outdoor play, and life science learning.

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

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

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

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.

Let your young adventurer go bug hunting in the great outdoors with their very own bug net!

In this fun science experiment, kids will determine the best method for ripening avocados and discover the cool chemical reaction that makes this possible.

Can you fool your eyes and your brain with an optical illusion? The purpose of this science fair project is to demonstrate various kinds of optical illusions.

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

This science experiment has students test whether a snail moves faster on concrete or dirt.

Give some of your local ladybugs a warm place to stay for the winter by making a ladybug home with recycled materials.

If your child aspires to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright, we've got some tips on building sand castles that last.

Play with balance and simple engineering as you hurry to create a sturdy rock tower.

What's a crater, and how does it happen? Here's a kindergarten experiment with safe, nontoxic ingredients.

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

Does your child always demand to know why the sky is blue, how the sun moves across the sky, or where wind comes from?

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

Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

This play-activity causes young children to focus on and become more aware of their sense of hearing and the power of their ears.

This activity is a fun way to "go fishing" with your preschooler, while learning about the concepts of freezing and melting.

Kids will build a turtle habitat in order to observe the climate preferences of this cold-blooded reptile.

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

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.

Help your second grader observe the phases of the moon, and then let the fun loose: he'll get to chart his observations with marshmallows!

Can a horse lead itself to the carrot? Train your horse with carrots and boxes and test horse memory in this fun zoology 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.