Kindergarten and 1st Grade Engineering and Science Inquiry Activities : Page 4

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

This simple project makes young children aware of their sense of smell and its capacity for providing them with information about their world.

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

Your child can create his own texture tree, experimenting with design during the process. The result will be a beautiful addition to your holiday decorations

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

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to build a tall tower out of building bricks! The instructions include questions prompts to guide students through the design challenge.

In this fun guessing game, your child uses his sense of smell and taste to figure out what is in the container. Here's how to play:

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

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

This experiment challenges students to forecast the weather based on the surrounding areas' weather.

Get ready for a yummy taste test! Just pour the milk -- and make sure you have some chocolate chip cookies on hand.

In this science fair project, kids measure how weather conditions affect how fast a puddle evaporates.

Uh-oh! Is that a pill sitting on the counter or a piece of candy?

This science fair idea is a great way for kids to explore static electricity. Kids will give a comb a static charge and watch as it separates pepper from salt.

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

In this science fair project, young children notice and track changes in trees throughout the year.

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

Learn how different types of soil affect how animal tracks form in this experiment!

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

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.

Develop your child's mathematical and engineering skills with this fun building brick challenge. In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create a boat out of building bricks.

What do worms eat? Kids find out what kinds of rotting leaves and vegetables worms prefer in this cool compost science fair project.

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

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

Can you fool your eyes and your brain with an optical illusion? The purpose of this science fair project is to demonstrate various kinds of optical illusions.

In this project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

Learn how to be a bird scientist in this simple project of watching feathered friends in their habitat.

In this awesome science fair project idea, kids will be attempting to pick up different objects using snail slime.