Research studies have shown that when asked what they'd prefer to study, children choose science topics more than half the time. Try taking your own interest survey with your class. Ask each child to identify the five things he or she would most like to learn about and tally the results. The natural world piques their curiosity and provides a great place for learning to begin. Science gets kids in on the action .
Science lends itself to real experiences in which children can participate.
Children involved in science activities have a rich bank of experiences from which to draw when they think, write, and act in other subject areas. Imagine how difficult it would be to describe a rose if we had never smelled the fragrance or been pricked by a thorn. Experiences are currency in the mind's memory bank that can be spent over and over throughout a child's life. Real experiences lead to integrative connections. Children who blow through a soda-straw kazoo and feel the vibrations on their lips and fingers can easily relate those vibrations to pitch in music, even composing their own tunes with straws of varying lengths.