‘Sciencing’ with kids by Prakash Rao:
Children’s experiences need to be real, concrete and [tangible]. We should never get carried away by just contents and facts. Link experiences to children’s life. Then they will feel a desire to know.
Children are naturally inquisitive. Mainly we need to provide opportunities for them to do what they would do naturally. In previous posts we have highlighted many ways to give kids the chance to learn and figure out how things work.
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April 17th, 2006 at 5:13 pm
[...] A great mind expands upon our recent post: Science for Kids. He provides some good insight into learning. [...]
July 14th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
I think we might have another young engineering on our hands, with the right training
She knows what she wants and isn’t stymied by constraints that would probably blind most of us to the possibilities…