120 hands-on experiments, engineering builds, and Olympiad-inspired challenges for Grades 1 to 12.
53 projects
Roll a toy car down ramps of different heights, graph the data, and find the slope of the line.
60 to 90 min · 7 materialsView projectLaunch a marble off a table from different ramp heights and test a physics model of how far it lands.
1.5 to 2 hr · 7 materialsView projectBuild a simple bird feeder and tally which birds come to visit.
30 to 45 min · 6 materialsView projectCollect fallen leaves, sort them by shape and edges, and make a graph of what you found.
30 to 50 min · 6 materialsView projectMake a simple rain gauge from a bottle and record how much rain falls each day for a week.
30 to 45 min · 7 materialsView projectStir different kitchen powders into water and sort them into the ones that disappear and the ones that do not.
20 to 30 min · 5 materialsView projectSprout beans in a bag on a sunny window and record what the seeds need to grow.
15 to 20 min · 6 materialsView projectAdd salt or sugar to ice cubes and find out what melts ice the fastest.
25 to 40 min · 7 materialsView projectGo on a hunt around your home to find out which things a magnet picks up and which it ignores.
25 to 40 min · 4 materialsView projectCompare brands of paper towel to find out which one soaks up the most water.
25 to 35 min · 5 materialsView projectHunt for circles, squares, triangles and rectangles around your home and show what you found on a bar graph.
30 to 45 min · 5 materialsView projectLift fingerprints with cocoa powder and tape and sort them into arches, loops and whorls.
35 to 50 min · 6 materialsView projectGuess lengths, masses and volumes first, then measure them, and see how close your estimates can get.
30 to 45 min · 5 materialsView projectRoll a toy car down a ramp onto different floors and find out which surface slows it the most.
30 to 45 min · 6 materialsView projectRub a balloon on different materials and test which one gives the strongest static charge.
30 to 45 min · 6 materialsView projectDesign a filter from sand, gravel and cotton and test how well it cleans muddy water.
60 to 90 min · 9 materialsView projectTime how long sugar takes to dissolve in cold, warm and hot water, then explain what you see.
30 to 45 min · 6 materialsView projectPour rain on soil slopes with and without plants or mulch and measure how much soil washes away.
45 to 70 min · 8 materialsView projectPick a question about everyday life, design a fair experiment to answer it, and present your results.
60 to 90 min · 4 materialsView projectPlay a two-dice game, collect the results, and discover which player has the better chance of winning.
40 to 60 min · 3 materialsView projectSurvey your family and friends, find the mean, median and mode, and decide which one tells the story best.
45 to 70 min · 5 materialsView projectAdd weight to the nose of a paper airplane and measure how it changes the distance it flies.
45 to 60 min · 5 materialsView projectSeparate the colors in black pens with paper chromatography to find which pen wrote a mystery note.
40 to 60 min · 6 materialsView projectSoak potato pieces in salt solutions of different strengths and use their mass change to find the concentration that matches the potato cells.
1 to 2 hr · 7 materialsView projectEduVistaHQ.com · Learn • Explore • Grow. Olympiad-inspired activities are practice for the skills those competitions use. EduVistaHQ is not affiliated with Science Olympiad or any other competition organization.