Preschool - 1st Grade Science Activities : Page 4

This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.

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.

Do this activity to help your kids see how seeds contain "baby" versions of big plant stems, roots, and leaves.

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

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

How do we know that air exists when we can't see it, taste it, or touch it? Here's a classic experiment that will teach your kid some basics of aerodynamics!

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

This flexible activity for preschoolers features jellybeans, counting, coloring, and the five senses.

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

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.

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

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

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

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

Help your preschooler craft a homemade wind spinning device--a surefire to make your backyard sparkle, and teach her a bit about weather!

Here's a simple science activity that will help your child better understand how wells bring us water.

Satisfy your kindergartener's fascination of different sounds with this easy science project, where they'll use their ears instead of their eyes to identify sounds!

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

This slightly messy, but tons-of-fun tactile activity will cement the idea of the land and water as pictured on maps in your young learner's mind.

Get ready for a yummy taste test! Just pour the milk -- and make sure you have some chocolate chip cookies on hand.

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

Alive or not? This yeast experiment you can conduct with your little scientist explores the answer to this timeless question.

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

Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

The weather is a key kindergarten science concept. With this activity your child will learn about wind direction and create a self portrait, too!

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.