3rd Grade Science Project Ideas

Time for another elementary school science project!5. Take the pencil/pen off. Pour enough water into the
Now that your kid has risen to the 3rd grade, he orglass container so when the strip is put back in, the
she cannot hand in the simpler projects that they did inwater submerges the very bottom of the strip.
grades before. No simple magnet experiments6. Put the strip back. Watch the water travel up the
anymore. And yet, the typical science project, thepaper towel strip. Wait.
volcano, is too complicated for a 3rd grader. What to7. Repeat these steps for all the markers. See what
do?colors each marker color is made out of!
Here are some of many 3rd Grade Science ProjectSome other 3rd Grade Science Project Ideas:
Ideas:2. Water and Penny Experiments
1. Separate the colors found in color markersMaterials
Materials-many pennies -water -eye dropper - clear drinking
- paper towels - scissors - assorted water markers -glass
glass container - pencil/pen - waterProcedure
ProcedureOne Experiment
1. Cut the paper towel into rectangular strips about one1. Take the glass of water and fill it all the way to the
inch wide and as tall as the glass container.top.
2. Take one of the markers and draw a horizontal line2. Carefully add pennies into the water one at a time.
on the paper towel strip about one inch from theDoes the water spill over immediately? How many
bottom.pennies can you add before the water spills over?
3. Take a pencil or a pen. Poke a hole in the middle ofSecond Experiment
the paper towel strip. Insert the pencil or pen through1. Put a penny on the table.
this hole so the strip hangs in the middle.2. Take an eyedropper and begin dripping water on
4. Rest the pencil or pen on the top edges of the glassthe surface of the penny. How many drops of water
container. The paper towel strip should be hanging intocan fit on a penny? More than you think!
the glass container.