If you visit a vegetable farm, encourage your children to look at the crops and ask questions about how they grow. If your children grew up in an urban area, they may have no idea what potatoes or beans look like growing in a field. People See if your children can spend part of a day or even an hour with a park ranger, pharmacist, veterinarian, chemist, engineer, or laboratory technician. This can teach the importance of science for many jobs. Before the visit, encourage your children to read about the work so they will be able to ask good questions during the visit.
Many communities have parks, forests, or nature areas in which to walk.
Some of these have centers where visitors can do everything from observe beehives to learn about flora and fauna. Science Groups and Organizations There are special groups and organizations for children in many communities. Some groups focus solely on a particular science activity ham radios, for instance, or computers. Schools sometimes organize groups for students with special science interests. Other Community Resources Look into botanical gardens, weather stations, hospital laboratories, sewage treatment plants, newspaper plants, radio and television stations, and historical sites.