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

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

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

In this project, a basketball containing different psi is dropped to see how well it bounces.

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

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

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!

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

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

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

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Help your first grader explore the world of scientific measurement by "weighing" fruit with a "water scale"!

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

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!

Explore solids and liquids with your young scientist by making gluep, a goopy substance that can behave like both a solid and a liquid!

How do people move pianos and heavy furniture into tall buildings? Show your kids some pulley potential with this simple household exercise!

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

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

Put an oatmeal box, a flashlight, and some construction paper together and you have the makings of an incredibly cool bedroom planetarium!

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

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.

Hunt for natureâs treasure, the many different products made by trees!

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

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

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