Kindergarten - 3rd Grade Engineering and Science Inquiry Resources : Page 8

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.

Make a backbone model to explore human anatomy and life science.

Young scientists will investigate people's preferences for saltiness, and make some inferences about genetics and diet.

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.

Learn about sound physics and do a survey experiment to explore the difference between sound and noise in this science project.

Will increasing the amount of salt in water effect how slow or fast the water freezes?

Demonstrate the properties of pressure and surface tension to explain how water can stay inside an upside down glass using cardboard.

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

Learn about the role of Earth's rotation on the Coriolis Effect and hurricanes in this science project. Model the Coriolis Effect on a hurricane's direction.

Did you even wonder why some rocks are round and smooth while others are broken up into small pieces?

Can a horse lead itself to the carrot? Train your horse with carrots and boxes and test horse memory in this fun zoology science fair project.

This science fair project explores how osmotic pressure forces water through the root up into the plant.

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.

Do you think you could walk around upside down -- with your feet in the air and your head on the ground?

Kids discover what a homogeneous mixture is by adding sugar to distilled water and identify the various factors affecting solubility.

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

Test whether plants can grow without sunlight and water.

Handedness and footedness refer to whether people prefer to use their left or right hand and foot. In this experiment, test hand and foot dominance.

In this physics project, learn about the relationship between light intensity and distance using a laser pointer, flashlight, and graph paper!

Have you ever noticed the way a dropped stone makes a fun pattern in a pond or lake? What's the science behind these splashy occurrences?

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?

Science fair project that determines whether cooling eggs helps them be peeled more easily. Compare the time it took to peel each egg.

How do icicles form and what do they look like? Do this free science fair project and watch the formation of icicles occur right before your eyes.

How does water pressure change with depth? Kids learn how pressure works underwater with this cool and easy demo.

In this science fair project, we'll use a liquid crystal thermometer to find out whether exercising makes a difference in people's temperature.

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?