1st - 4th Grade Science Activities : Page 10

Is our water polluted? Help your young scientist understand the importance of taking care of the environment with this simple experiment.

This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.

In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake s'mores!

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

Help your curious third grader construct a dazzling spinning wheel that will teach him about the science behind colors while providing some silly entertainment!

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

Demonstrate how you can make your own compass using a magnetized needle. It also allows you to compare magnetic north and geographic north.

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

In this project, build an insect model that shows how the head, thorax, and abdomen fit together! Learn insect anatomy by constructing a paper mache critter.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

Try the classic balloon-on-the-wall trick with your kid and watch static electricity in action.

The moon doesn't produce its own light, so why can we see it shining in the sky? Learn about reflection and planetshine in this fun and easy science project!

In this experiment you explore how tectonic plates move to create land and expand bodies of water.

Are you ready to be a detective for science? Then get out your magnifying glass and start studying fingerprints!

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

In this science fair project, students use the streak test to tell minerals apart from each other.

In this experiment, you'll make a seafloor spreading model to learn more about how plate tectonics work and create mid-ocean ridges.

When you cut a flower to put into a vase, it'll eventually wilt, even with water and sunshine. But is there another scientific secret to keeping flowers fresh?

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

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 interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system!

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

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.

Put your second grade scientist to work this Fourth of July with our colorful "liquid fireworks" project!

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

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.

Build a 3d animal cell model with this cool science fair project, which helps kids visualize and understand the function of a cell's parts and organelles.

Kids construct a single fixed pulley system to learn how pulleys can make work easier in this cool physics and engineering science fair project idea.

This science fair project idea examines the reason boats are shaped and engineered.

Make a wish upon a tree with this craft that also helps your child learn more about Chinese culture.