All of these intelligences can be drawn upon within a dynamic and integrated science program. The methods and timing of assessment powerfully affect what children and youth learn and retain. Assessments should be challenging, interesting, and actively involve children and youth. Lab notebooks, Explorers' Field Journals, portfolios, and culminating exhibitions are additional ways for children to record and display their progress and thinking over time. In addition, a new vision of science instruction has developed during the past several years.
Children pose questions, hypothesize, explore, and investigate in the spirit of true scientists.
In California and nationally, science education emphasizes authentic science experiences in which children and youth participate in meaningful learning activities. They are young scientists . I Wonder . . . Look into the bright, wide eyes of a child filled with wonder and amazement to find your answer. Or observe adolescents who are puzzled by something they cannot explain or a problem they cannot solve.