Kindergarten and 1st Grade Engineering and Science Inquiry Activities : Page 5

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

Are your taste buds up for the challenge? Put tongues to the test with this science fair project that examines who enjoys sour flavors more, adults or kids?

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

Invite your kindergarten scientist to conduct this color mixing experiment to discover which primary hues make a rainbow of secondary colors.

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.

Checkerboard play challenges students to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking.

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

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.

This science experiment tests why guacamole goes brown and if leaving the pit in will stop guacamole from turning brown.

Kids often ask, "how tall am I?" This science fair project seeks to determine how well kids can guess their own heights.

This science fair project idea demonstrates how air resistance contributes to denser objects falling faster than less dense objects.

Set up a fun guessing game for your curious kindergartener, one that will test her ability to use all five of her senses.

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

In this science project, young children observe, record, and create collections of colors in their world and increase their powers of observation.

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

This activity is a fun challenge for students who have just started learning to program educational robots.

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

Can you dig it? This science experiment isn't for kids who like to keep their hands clean.

Cinnamon is tasty, but does it have super powers as well? Find out if cinnamon can repel mosquitoes in this outdoorsy experiment.

This super fun science project, perfect for young children, combines crafts, dressing up as animals, outdoor play, and life science learning.

Kids will learn how to clean fish tank the natural way. Add catfish to the tank and see if your water gets cleaner.

Hold a magnet marathon! Explore the power of magnets with your kindergartener in this entertaining and simple science game.

In this science fair project, young children observe, record, and create collections of shapes in their world and increase their powers of observation.

This science fair project idea teaches that time always passes at the same rate and nothing we do in our daily life âreallyâ affects how fast it moves.

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.

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.