Kindergarten and 1st Grade Engineering and Science Inquiry Resources : Page 3

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 experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.

Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

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

In this experiment you will replicate the mummification process by making a hot dog mummy.

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

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

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

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.

Help children understand the power of germs and the importance of hand washing with this visual activity that introduces the concept of scientific inquiry.

In this kindergarten activity your child will create a map of your house and use a magnet to move pictures of your family through the house!

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

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.

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.

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

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

With Halloween right around the corner, find a way to use your brain and reward your tummy with a new type of science -- candy science!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Why does purple cheese look nasty? Because color plays a big part in how we perceive the taste of different foods. Are birds just like us in this respect?

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.

People have favorite flavors, but what about ants? Which ant food is the most popular?

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.