Make meringues with your first grader and see how states of matter can transform before your very eyes. Here's how:

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

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

Pureed ripe peaches, vanilla yogurt, agave nectar, and juicy chunks of peach come together to form a refreshing pop that hits the spot on a hot summer day.

Are you looking for a fun craft for the next big American holiday? Make this hat with your kid and let him march around the room like a Revolutionary soldier!

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

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

Introduce your first grader to our country's most famous leaders with an artsy info board full of facts, patriotic colors and coins!

Help to build your child's reading skills and get your point across with these homemade message magnets!

First grade science often covers solids, liquids, and gases. This silly science explores serious facts about the difference between all three.

Even your first grader can get involved in the lighting of the Kwanzaa Kinara with this clever flameless Kinara project!

Create an American flag pinwheel in this Fourth of July craft activity!

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