1st - 3rd Grade Activities : Page 3

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Learn how to make a food pyramid with animals in a a coniferous forest ecosystem around your home.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Design a colorful leprechaun trap—and make some memories—with this fun St. Patrick's Day craft project!

In this free science fair project, learn how to separate salt from water using heat. A great science project for elementary school kids.

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

Start your toy engines -- this is going to be a fast and friction-filled race!

This Earth Day, create an adorable litter bug while learning about the importance of recycling.

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.

Certain fruits can change gelatinâs ability to set. In this experiment, kids will discover what happens when gelatin meets pineapple enzyme.

How can we describe the relationship of magnetic field strength vs. distance? Kids will find out with this free science fair project idea.

This science fair project idea investigates how magnetism can defy the force of gravity.

This project examines whether people's taste perception is influenced by what they see.

Make a Korean paper fan! This activity is a great way to help your child explore different cultures while she builds her fine motor and arts and crafts skills.

This easy and inexpensive paper towel science project introduces kids to important physical concepts like cohesion, adhesion, and capillarity.

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

Why doesn't the ocean freeze? Students answer this question by simulating the chemical composition and temperature of arctic waters in their own home.

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

How does a compass work? What's a magnetic field? Kids will build their own compass at home to find the answers in this great science fair project idea.

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

How does a flashlight work? Kids will make a complete circuit and explore how voltage contributes to brightness with this science fair project idea.

Kids will explore the corrosiveness of soda in this cool science fair project by leaving pennies submerged in soda overnight.

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.

Kids will learn some cool stuff about chemical reactions by determining what happens when you mix different concentrations of hydrogen peroxide and yeast.

In this project, you'll build a model of the earth, complete with all seven continents and four major oceans.

Help your child discover the difference between his wants and needs using this poster.

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!

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!