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Year one Science Fair Project Ideas

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Exploring Taste: Sweet, Sour, Salty, and Bitter

In this science fair project, young children will become aware of and have the opportunity to experience the four basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.

Air Pressure Science Experiment: Balloon and a Jar

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

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

Density Experiment

This is a quick, easy science fair project that conveys the idea of density to reception and early elementary children.

Discovering the Best Water for Plants

Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?

Dinosaur Tracks: How Are Fossilized Imprints Formed?

Kindergarteners will love this geology science project where they'll learn how fossils are made by creating fossil imprints in homemade clay.

Eureka! Volume and the Displacement of Water

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

Do Some Liquids Expand More than Others When Frozen?

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.

Sun Print: How Solar Energy Creates Chemical Changes

In this science fair project, we'll explore how blocking the sun's light can stop those can stop photosensitive paper from changing colour.

What Is the Best Way to Wash Your Hands?

This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.

Optical Illusions

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.

How Sound Travels Through Air and Solids

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

What Happens When Oil and Water Get Together?

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

Leaf Rubbings: Shapes and Patterns

In this project combining nature, art, maths, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

How Well Does Sound Travel Through a Gas? A Liquid? A Solid?

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.

Why Do Plants Wilt?

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

Plants Need Sunlight and Water

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

Dishing Out the Colors

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

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

Why Do Greens Turn Brown?

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

Exploring Static Electricity with Sticky Balloons

This science fair project introduces children to static electricity and the idea that electricity is more than lights and plugs.

Pasta Coquina: Make Your Own Sedimentary Rock

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

Whole and Parts: Taking Things Apart

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.

The Speed of Sound on a String

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

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