Preschool - 1st Grade Engineering and Science Inquiry Activities : Page 5

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.

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

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

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

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

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

Develop your child's mathematical and engineering skills with this fun building brick challenge. In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create a boat out of building bricks.

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

Wiggly worms are known for staying buried in the soil, but how does that affect plants? Are earthworms and plant growth related?

Wreath ornaments decorate your Christmas tree and act as a fun sensory craft for preschoolers. Make wreath ornaments with your child this holiday season.

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

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.

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

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

In this awesome science fair project idea, kids will be attempting to pick up different objects using snail slime.

Kids often ask, "how tall am I?" This science fair project seeks to determine how well kids can guess their own heights.

Invite your kindergarten scientist to conduct this color mixing experiment to discover which primary hues make a rainbow of secondary colors.

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

This science fair project idea demonstrates how air resistance contributes to denser objects falling faster than less dense objects.

Are your taste buds up for the challenge? Put tongues to the test with this science fair project that examines who enjoys sour flavors more, adults or kids?

Why does purple cheese look nasty? Because color plays a big part in how we perceive the taste of different foods. Are birds just like us in this respect?

This science fair project idea teaches that time always passes at the same rate and nothing we do in our daily life âreallyâ affects how fast it moves.

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

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

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

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

In this science project, young children observe, record, and create collections of colors in their world and increase their powers of observation.

Can you dig it? This science experiment isn't for kids who like to keep their hands clean.

In this activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.

In this science fair experiment, children demonstrate the relationship between the amount of stuff and the amount of pressure in a closed system.