Kindergarten Engineering and Science Inquiry Activities : Page 2

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

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

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

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

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

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.

Dinosaurs were huge creatures that left behind huge footprints that lasted for millions of years. In this science fair project, kids learn how dinosaur tracks were left behind!

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

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

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

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

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

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.

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 teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

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

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

Set up a fun guessing game for your curious kindergartener, one that will test her ability to use all five of her senses.

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

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

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.

Get ready for a yummy taste test! Just pour the milk -- and make sure you have some chocolate chip cookies on hand.

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

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

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

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

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

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!

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