I need to show, as well as say, how that looks. This was certainly unexpected but was definitely a thrill for me to see the creativity of these students, of how they conceived the microbes and me and then expressed it in pictorial illustrations. Children and scientists have much in common. Naturally inquisitive, young children ask endless questions. They may spend half an hour watching a bug crawl on the floor.
Children sort money, pictures, toys, shells, pasta shapes, and words.
They experiment by pouring water into soil, mixing different colors of paints, or adding blocks to a tower until it falls. They draw conclusions about the way things work. They learn from and share information with others. Scientists share with children a natural curiosity about the world. They are trained to use a more systematic and sophisticated approach to inquiry than children do.