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Year one Science Fair Project Ideas

Great selection of year one science fair project ideas. These science fair projects can help you find year one level ideas for your science fair.

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Can You Keep a Secret?

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

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.

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.

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.

Ew... Brown Guacamole!

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

Why Do Greens Turn Brown?

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

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.

Discovering and Sorting Seeds in Fruits and Vegetables

In this project children discover, identify, and sort seeds from a variety of fruits and vegetables

How Sound Travels Through Air and Solids

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

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.

Density Experiment

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

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.

Hide and Go Listen: A Hearing Activity

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

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.

Colour Walks: Seeing Colors in Our World

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

Shape Walks: Seeing Shapes in Our World

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

Transforming Tree: Tracking Change through the Seasons

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

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.

Exploring the Sense of Smell: Sniffing Jars

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

Exploring the Sense of Touch: Secret Feeling Boxes

This project makes young children uniquely aware of their sense of touch and its ability to alone give them information about the world around them.

Demonstrating Photosynthesis: Writing in Grass

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

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.

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.

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.

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