Children are natural scientists since, fortunately, their curiosity has no limits, and with a little adult supervision even the smallest of the house can do “real” or “real” science. Let’s see what recommendations we should take into account (and we will be happy to apply) when doing scientific experiments with children:
Play with the senses
It is important to encourage children to use their senses to observe objects and events around them and to use all the words that come to mind to describe their environment, be it textures, sounds, smells, colors, shape, size … and It will also help them develop their vocabulary and observation skills.
Questions and more questions
We must encourage them to make us participate in their initiatives and the ideas that come to them with open questions such as “What are you doing? What do you think will happen now? How are these elements alike or different? Why do you think this has happened?
Diary of…
Creating a journal with the experiments that we carry out with them is another of the recommendations that we propose to you. Keeping a record of all the time they spend having fun and learning with science can be very useful to also increase their curiosity in this field or even arouse interest in another related one . Making a photo album, recording their own experiments on video – with our help – or asking the children to draw the “before and after” of the experiment in question will be as fun as it is educational for them.
