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Best Elementary School Science Projects


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Looking for elementary school science projects your students will love? Consider raising monarch butterflies which will be your students favorite fall or spring earth science projects.

Raising monarch butterflies is easy and very fascinating. Your students will learn about life cycles, butterfly stages, metamorphosis, migration and more.

You can combine a separate plant science project growing the host plant (monarch caterpillar food) which is tropical milkweed. Tropical Milkweed is very easy to grow from seed and if you start this plant science unit after Christmas vacation the students will grow enough monarch caterpillar food to raise monarch
butterflies in the spring before school is over.

Would you prefer to raise monarchs in the fall as an elementary school science project? This can be your first science unit when you return from summer break.

There is plenty of common milkweed growing in most parts of the country to feed the monarch caterpillars, so this makes for an easy science project idea.

If you are looking for school bulletin board ideas, try one on the life cycle of the monarch butterfly to reinforce the elementary school science projectsof raising butterflies. Consider a winter plant
science bulletin board idea focusing on growing the tropical milkweed.

These butterfly science projects are great for kindergarten through 8th grade.

Kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade – raise several caterpillars as a class, the students help care for the caterpillars and observe the changes and stages of the monarch butterfly focusing on life cycles
3rd grade, 4th grade and 5th grade – study more in detail the life cycle measuring growth of the caterpillars and their instars, journal observations of the stages and caterpillar behavior and study the migration of the monarch butterfly
6th grade, 7th grade and 8th grade – raise their own monarch butterflies, learn what actually happens inside of the chrysalis as the butterfly is formed and follow the monarch butterfly migration online

Want to know more about getting your students to love science? Get detailed information at the resources below for these elementary science projects.

Karen Fish has created a website to share her passion for Raising Monarch Butterflies.

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Science Projects in Elementary School


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Science Projects. Elementary School teachers almost always require students to do at least one science project before they finish the fifth grade. Elementary science projects are easy to find, but finding the right project for your child can be a challenge. Here are five hints to help you find the best project for your grade school child.

1. Find out what type of project your science teacher requires. There are many types of projects, and most elementary schools give a range of choices. Does your teacher want an experiment, a demonstration, a collection, a report, or a model? Knowing what kind of project you need will narrow down your choices considerably.
 
2. Make a list of things that interest your child. What subjects catch your child’s eye on television or in books – space, animals, buildings, computers, explosions? Does your child need instant gratification? Consider a chemistry experiment with dramatic results, such as “Which Fruit has the Most Vitamin C?” Is your child concerned about the environment? Find out which toilet tissue is most biodegradable, or which type of insulation works best.
 
3. Set your budget for money – and time. If you don’t have a lot of money to invest, and if your time is limited, there is no need to look at anything that requires special metals to be imported from the Far East. Decide on how much cash you’re willing to spend, and create a generous time line for getting supplies. Keep in mind that you have to actually do the project after the supplies arrive.
 
4. Keep in mind that this is a science project for elementary school. Don’t choose a project with complicated instructions.

You want your child to do the project with your help – and not the other way around.
 
5. Provide four or five science project choices. Ever notice how it takes longer to decide on an ice cream flavor when there are 31 flavors? Give your elementary school child a limited list of science project choices, and you’ll both be happier.

Now, get a free guide to science projects– including how to find experiments with step by step instructions – at http://elementary-science-projects.com Easy and fast, they’ll help you submit an outstanding – and maybe winning – science project for elementary school.

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