1st - 5th Grade Life Science Activities

Kids will conduct a cool limewater carbon dioxide test that can be performed with common household materials to learn about the chemistry of this common gas.

This science fair project idea experiments with spinning color wheels and optical illusions.

Make sourdough bread...and learn some colonial history and modern science in the process!

Sink or swim? Calculate the density of various fruits and vegetables using water and a kitchen scale.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

Incorporate some math and science thinking into your annual fall fun with this pumpkin investigation activity! Your child will have a blast investigating various ways of measuring pumpkins, making estimates, taking measurements, and recording their findin

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

Help your child create a tasty treat that will demonstrate exactly how frogs survive a freezing season.

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.

This taste buds science experiment demonstrates how strongly our sense of smell controls what we taste.

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

Experiment about connection of senses of taste and smell. Using blindfold and noseplugs, administer blind taste test. Analyze results and organize data.

Brine shrimp usually live in saltwater. Investigate how salt concentration (salinity) affects the rate at which brine shrimp eggs hatch.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Would it hurt to skip brushing your teeth just this once? Let's find out by seeing which foods produce the most mouth bacteria.

Understanding absorption means understanding why certain fibers and materials can absorb water! Kids will see absorption in action in this simple project.

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.

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

Learn about the fruit fly life cycle in this experiment. Capture fruit flies to examine various stages of insect metamorphosis.

This basketball project explores the best way to make the perfect shot every time.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

What is the best stain remover for clothes? In this fun and easy science fair project idea, students will identify the best method for laundry stain removal.

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

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

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

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

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.

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 learn about animal classification with this fun and delicious activity.