Preschool - 1st Grade Engineering and Science Inquiry Activities : Page 5

Wreath ornaments decorate your Christmas tree and act as a fun sensory craft for preschoolers. Make wreath ornaments with your child this holiday season.

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!

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

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

Create your very own scented hand sanitizer that will help your child to keep those nasty germs at bay!

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

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.

Your child can create his own texture tree, experimenting with design during the process. The result will be a beautiful addition to your holiday decorations

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

In this activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.

Magnets may hold up papers on the fridge, but is it the paper that attracts them? Find out more with this kindergarten science investigation.

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

Uh-oh! Is that a pill sitting on the counter or a piece of candy?

This science experiment has students test whether a snail moves faster on concrete or dirt.

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

Are your taste buds up for the challenge? Put tongues to the test with this science fair project that examines who enjoys sour flavors more, adults or kids?

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

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

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.

Checkerboard play challenges students to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking.

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

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.

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

Kids often ask, "how tall am I?" This science fair project seeks to determine how well kids can guess their own heights.

This science fair project idea demonstrates how air resistance contributes to denser objects falling faster than less dense objects.

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 science fair project, young children notice and track changes in trees throughout the year.

In this science project, young children observe, record, and create collections of colors in their world and increase their powers of observation.

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.

Boost your preschooler's attention to detail by getting her to explore the differences between two different pumpkins: large and small.