When children are truly involved in the scientific process they gain understanding, knowledge, and life skills. They deepen their awareness of what's going on around them and how others contribute to their well-being.

When children are truly involved in the scientific process they gain understanding, knowledge, and life skills. They deepen their awareness of what's going on around them and how others contribute to their well-being.

Of course children benefit from positive feedback. But praise and rewards are not the only methods of reinforcement. More emphasisshould be place on appreciation--reinforcement related explicitly and directly to the content of the child's interest and efforts.

Communicative skills develop when there's something meaningful for children to communicate about-when they are taking an active role.

In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.

All children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences.

We are doing earlier and earlier to children what we shouldn't do later.