Kindergarten - 4th Grade Science Activities : Page 9

Did you ever add salt to pasta? Did it help cook the pasta faster? If not, find out in this science fair project idea.

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

Spiders don't go to grocery stores or fast food chains to get their food -- they set up traps and wait for their food to come to them!

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

Put your second grade scientist to work this Fourth of July with our colorful "liquid fireworks" project!

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

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

In this pinto bean germination experiment, you'll learn about how fertilizer aids in growing pinto beans into seedlings.

In this experiment you will replicate the mummification process by making a hot dog mummy.

This is a fantastic and easy science experiment where kids will learn about elasticity by testing how high bouncy balls of different materials can bounce.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

In this activity, your student will be invited to build a chair out of building blocks that is designed to meet the specific size and shape of a small doll or toy figure.

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

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

What causes sound? Here's a simple science experiment that adds a visual element to the science of sound to help kids better understand this tricky concept.

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Check out this fun and easy 4th grade science fair project idea that tests how gravity induces positive and negative geotropism (gravitropism) in bean plants.

Learn how to demagnetize a magnet and how physics can explain this phenomenon with this enlightening science fair project.

This interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system!

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

The purpose of this science fair project is to determine which conditions and materials quicken the composting process to make the best compost.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

In this science project, learn about water transport in plants and make a beautiful dyed floral arrangement with cohesion, adhesion, and xylem tubes!

In this science fair project, students create their own miniature salt flats at home.

This science fair project idea explores substances that cause a bubble to last longer.

This science fair project idea explores the egg's thin membrane.