1st Grade Science Activities : Page 2

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

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

This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.

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

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

The objective of this science project was to build a model of a volcano and observe reaction between different substances, including baking soda and vinegar.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

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

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

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

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.

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.

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.

Your kid can learn about the process of making frozen yogurt and enjoy a homemade, flavorful dessert. Experiment with this fun, chilly food!

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

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

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

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

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

Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

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.

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.

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

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

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

In this science fair project, kids observe the expansion of liquids when frozen and determine if some liquids expand more than others in the freezing process.