In this activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.

Lead your first grader on a nature walk ... with a scavenger hunt-style twist! They'll try to capture photos that correspond to paint chip colors.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

Science fair project idea that examines different physical characteristics of a chosen animal. Make educated guesses about evolution based on animal's form.

This play-activity causes young children to focus on and become more aware of their sense of hearing and the power of their ears.

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

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

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

Engineers in training can get started with this simple wheel-and-axle construction activity.

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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

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

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

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

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.

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

In this science fair project, young children will become aware of and have the opportunity to experience the four basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

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.

Wiggly worms are known for staying buried in the soil, but how does that affect plants? Are earthworms and plant growth related?

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

Use simple materials to build a "worm hotel" with your kindergarten soil scientist...and see what worms really do all day.

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

In this activity, you'll send your kindergartener on a scavenger hunt to find sounds and create a sound recording. Here's how!

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

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