Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

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

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

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

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

In this project children discover, identify, and sort seeds from a variety of fruits and vegetables

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

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

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

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.

Find out whether we can create motion in a dish and as a result, create a wonderful and colorful show.

In this science fair experiment, children demonstrate the relationship between the amount of stuff and the amount of pressure in a closed system.

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

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

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

In this science fair project, you'll make a "ghost" appear in a test tube, and learn about what happens when hot water and cold water interact.

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.

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

This science fair project idea investigates which objects float and sink in honey, water, and oil.