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

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

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

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

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

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

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

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

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

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

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.

Science fair project that develops latent fingerprints on a non-porous objects by converting superglue from a solid state to a gaseous state.

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.

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

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

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

In this design challenge, your child will use building bricks to create a funny face. The activity instructions include question prompts thta can help guide your child through the creative process, and promote their problem-solving skills.

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

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

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

The objective of this science project is to determine the length of time for different seeds to germinate.

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

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

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

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.

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

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

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