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.

Has your child ever played weatherman? Try this science activity that lets kids try their hands at observing and predicting the weather.

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

This science fair project idea investigates emulsifiers that allow oil and vinegar to mix.

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

Help your child add some flair to the family garden with pencil pinwheels!

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Give some of your local ladybugs a warm place to stay for the winter by making a ladybug home with recycled materials.

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

What is a wedge? Kids find out by experimenting with different wedges in this simple science fair project idea.

Your kid will be captivated as she watches liquids change color before her very eyes during this fun science project that introduces some chemistry basics.

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

Be a chemist for a day and study the simple reaction between sugar and heat. Try heating sugar and see what happens!

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

Explore solids and liquids with your young scientist by making gluep, a goopy substance that can behave like both a solid and a liquid!

Kids construct a single fixed pulley system to learn how pulleys can make work easier in this cool physics and engineering science fair project idea.

Alive or not? This yeast experiment you can conduct with your little scientist explores the answer to this timeless question.

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

Slime: It's oozy, it's goopy, and it's just plain fun! Learn how to make slime with this fun science fair project.