Teach your first grade scientist the difference between liquids and solids using maple syrup.

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

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

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

In this science fair project, kids observe the expansion of liquids when frozen and determine if some liquids expand more than others in the freezing process.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

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

Find out whether we can create motion in a dish and as a result, create a wonderful and colorful show.

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.

Test whether plants can grow without sunlight and water.

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

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

Which music genres have the fastest tempos? The slowest? This experiment determines if there's a relationship between beats per minute in a song and its genre.

How do organic materials become soil? This science experiment measures what materials biodegrade.

What animals are most popular? This project affords practice in data-collection, record-keeping and data-analysis through the investigation of this question.

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 introduces children to static electricity and the idea that electricity is more than lights and plugs.

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

This project determines what category of person is most likely to be ticklish.

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

There are many benefits to bugs and insects. This science project shows how cockroaches, termites, and other critters benefit our planet.

This science fair project idea investigates how magnetism can defy the force of gravity.

Help your second grader observe the phases of the moon, and then let the fun loose: he'll get to chart his observations with marshmallows!

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

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

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

Do different types of oil mix or stack? Find out in this science fair project idea!

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

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.