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Curious Minds

We all like to question our surroundings especially if young and things don’t make much sense to you. It is fascinating to see how children approach situations and the different ways they explain it. Having my nephews around me really gets me thinking about so many different things and how they work.

Children have such intuitive minds that gets them captures in a world full of explorations which can take us beyond our own understandings. The ideas that they associate with can be far beyond our conceptual awareness and this is a crucial area that , I as an educationalist will be to appreciate and take it further.Here is an example of science that relates to children’s everyday experiences.

Then my nephew had a lot of questions. He wanted to find out what when you put hand into warm water and then try to pick up the rice. ( in class we can discuss fair testing and investigate the factors in it).

 

 

 

 

 

Science , is it all that hard.

A new year, a new subject and lots of new ideas to explore.

And this time it’s exploring Science ! My biggest fear was that it really as complicated as it has always seen to been to me. Does the concepts need to be something beyond my understanding,

Image result for famous quote from famous scientist

Strangely enough, and after a good thought the answer was NO. I thought to myself, look around you 2 things that you might have done today: walked; and played ball games. Both in itself a scientific understanding of its process. So science does involve my day to day life more than I think of it.

He’s a clip on our first group science experiment of the year. Very simple but just a start…

We might have not known what the substances were called or did not have the most accurate prediction, but we questioned and we tried.