Preschool - 3rd Grade Science Activities : Page 5

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

The goal of this golf science fair science fair project is to determine whether the temperature of a golf ball affects its elasticity and its rebound.

How does a compass work? What's a magnetic field? Kids will build their own compass at home to find the answers in this great science fair project idea.

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

Learn about the layers of the Earth and make a model! Create a earth layer book, cake, or clay diagram.

How does a kazoo, the strings of a guitar, or the speaker of a radio make sound? The purpose of this science fair project is to show how vibration makes sound.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

This science project uses Mohsâ Hardness Test to show kids how to compare the hardness of different types of minerals.

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

Bring the magic and mystery of the night sky to the light of day with this fun constellation art project!

Set your young chemist up for an afternoon of science-fueled magic with a deceptively simple activity starring baking soda and vinegar!

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

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

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.

Do you think you can blow down a sand castle with a mighty wind? Find out which material stands up best to erosion in this erosion experiment.

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

Have your child kick off their summer vacation by making a miniature water slide!

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

This classic children's game demonstrates how sound travels through air vs. through a solid.

In this free science fair project idea, we learn about surface tension and how it can support mass—in this case, a floating paper clip.

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

Kids are sure to be entranced by the magic of the ocean when they create their very own ocean in a bottle.

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

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!

In this experiment you observe and determine how well your cat uses his whiskers to navigate through a maze.

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.