1st and 2nd Grade Science Activities : Page 3

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

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.

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

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

Milk is made of water and fat; but how can you separate the two? Find out in this color changing milk experiment.

How does a kazoo, the strings of a guitar, or the speaker of a radio make sound? The purpose of this science fair project is to show how vibration makes sound.

What's the quickest way to separate salt and pepper? Let static electricity do the work! Your child will be fascinated by this simple experiment.

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.

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

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.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

Be a chemist for a day and study the simple reaction between sugar and heat. Try heating sugar and see what happens!

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

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.

You don't need to wait for rain to see a rainbow. Make one yourself, and teach your child about light and weather in the process.

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.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

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

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.

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

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

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

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

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

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.

Science fair project that examines what causes thunder and why a thunderclap sounds so loud. How is lightening related to the creation of sound waves?

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.