What is a good (pretty simple) science fair project for a 1st grader????

Question

Nothing to hard or complicated he's only a 1st grader and just learning the very basics, reading writing, etc

Answer 1

drop different amounts of Mento's into 2 liter bottles of Diet coke, and measure how high the Diet coke sprays based on how many mentos you add each time. It's the latest "fun" thing in science, as long as you have somewere like outside to do it. i think for every one mento it sprays one foot!

Answer 2

I remember doing a science fair project in like 2nd or 3rd grade on clouds. I used the cotton balls from vitamin pill bottles (I don't even know if they use those anymore) to make my different "clouds". I got Honorable Mention with that -- I was really proud because I was competing against all the "big 8th graders".
However, it is cooler if the project is something that your kid comes up with -- I actually remember coming up with the question, "where do clouds come from?" by looking up at the sky as a kid. Ask your kid to come up with a science project, it won't take too long for the kid to come up with some kind of question, and it will be much more inspiring.

Answer 3

When my daughter was in 2nd grade we did this project for her. It was fun and unique. It was "How many licks does it really take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?" All of the teachers, parents and other children thought it was awesome. All you do is buy a bag of the Tootsie Pops and have your son lick it and see how many licks it actually takes to get to the chocolate center. We took pictures of my daughter licking it. We also had her draw (or you can just print a picture from their website) a picture of the Tootsie Pop owl from the original commercials. On the poster board we put a wrapper from her lollipop, the picture of the owl and printed a small story about the tootsie pop from the website(which had been read to her so she could explain the history of the tootsie pop). We also put several pictures of her doing her experiment. One when she started, a few to show that the lollipop was getting smaller, and then one when she actually got to the end. We all had a blast doing it. Here is a link to the website with all of the pictures and history if you decide on this as your son's project: http://www.tootsie.com/howmany-sb.html

I hope I was able to help some :) Good luck!!!

Answer 4

In my experiences with science fairs, judges generally like the super involved you know their parents helped them projects or the extremely practical. My best science fair project I did was testing which battery really last the longest. I used a portable CD player (as if that doesn't age me...) since I knew it used up batteries quickly and I wouldn't mind listening to all the time. I went to State with it, but lost to a project that even someone with a PhD in aerospace engineering couldn't have come up with. You could even take it farther and see if certain brands last longer in different things or something like if you use rechargeable batteries (in say a camera) if it really is better than buying those expensive camera batteries.

Answer 5

You could go to the dollar tree and buy a bag of popsicle sticks and glue and then have him make something out of that...a raft and watch it float in the sink or tub for instance. Then apply some weight to it and see what it does...you could explain why that happens as well so he understands.

Answer 6

have 4 plants
put water in the first ribena in the second nothing in the third and tea in the fourth

Answer 7

collect cigarette butts and put them in a jar of water to show the nasty color it changes.

get three plants. just water one (control) put plant food in another, bleach in a 3rd. Take or draw pictures daily to show effects.

good old potato 1/2 in water

Answer 8

Grow two kinds of a plant -- fertilizing one and not fertilizing the other. Compare growth