Preschool - 4th Grade Physical Science Resources : Page 4

Deck the halls with last season's Christmas lights for a spectacular and electrifying science activity.

A homemade lava lamp gives any room a retro flair. Find out how to make a homemade lava lamp, and learn some science too, with this educational activity.

This quick and simple preschool mirror activity will introduce your child to the science of reflection and light with a flashlight experiment and picture game.

How do mirrors work? What is light, and how does it travel? Explore light and reflection with your preschooler with these simple hands-on experiments.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

Learn to solve a crime scene investigation using an important forensics tool: oblique lighting.

This fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

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.

How does the size of a vibrating surface affect the pitch of a drum? Learn about drum size and pitch with this easy science fair project idea.

What happens when light hits a hard surface? Find out by conducting a simple light reflection experiment with your preschooler.

This kindergarten science activity will help her explore the changing states of matter which transform an egg from raw to soft to hard-boiled.

Make your own helicopter using a paper clip and a sheet of paper. Hold the spinner up in the air, let it go, and watch it spin gracefully to the ground.

Help your kindergarten scientist discover relative size, density, and buoyancy with this fun, pumpkin science project!

Your child will do a fun science experiment using soap and pepper flakes to help understand the concepts of water molecules and the surface tension of water.

This 4th of July, explore fourth grade science and make some safe fireworks in your own backyard using soda pop!

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

Discover whether different amounts of water added into a wine glass will produce a different pitch when their fingers are rubbed along the rim.

In this physics project, learn about the relationship between light intensity and distance using a laser pointer, flashlight, and graph paper!

Take a look at forensic science with your child. She'll learn how to take a shoe impression, just like the detectives do!

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

Household items and a bit of imagination will create a CSI kit for your child to have investigative adventures with. Explore the world of forensic science!

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

Delight your budding scientist with this cool physics magic trick and teach her some basic physics concepts while you're at it!