This is a picture from a hike I went on this summer with my dad, sister and cousin. It was hard, but so much fun. As we walked along the trail there were so many things that define the outdoors: nature trees, dirt, animals, insects (a LOT of insects), weather, etc.
All of these examples are driven by science!!! How curious are we about the world around us and what happens in it? What do you want to discover? How that work, and what does that do? I think that children are still in a magical stage of their lives, when they are driven by curiousity and finding out how and why things work.
The world is amazing. We have a big responsibility as teachers to nurture and strengthen children's science foudations and knowledge!
"Learning doesn't happen only for children, and it doesn't happen only in school. Learning in an ongoing process, in which the larger integrates new knowledge with previous knowledge and discovers new ways of thinking, acting, and feeling. We are always constructing new meanings in this way. I am always learning, you are always learning, and right now, somewhere a child is learning that it doesn't matter whether a corn seed is planted upside down or rightside up. That child is learning that in the proper environment, new shoots, like young children, grow toward the light," (p. 26).
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