Still, since these hooks appear on magazine covers month after month, it must be that month after month they can still part adults who ought to know better from their money. Neither the writers nor the publishers of school textbooks seem even to try to take advantage of the hook principle so well-known to junior editors at every commercial periodical. By addressing kids' real questions, questions that they actually ask and really care about the answers to, we can bring their active attention to topics in many fields of science and applied science. Kids love to have opinions about issues that are alive and controversial in the adult world, and the grabbers connect readily to many of them. Areas where the Grabbers touch and overlap permit them to flow together to make an interconnected network that blankets most of science.
Many students lose their flair for science by the time they reach high school, or even sooner.
I think that the flair can be kept alive, and even enhanced. The material can be always be organized to answer questions. When facts are needed to answer exciting questions, learning them doesn't feel like a chore, and each new fact is a treasure. Igneous and sedimentary rock. Formation of strata.