Teaching through Experiments
Posted by MissPriss on Sunday, April 28, 2013.
In my experience, kids love experiments! Experiments
are a way to learn about the world around you in a fun and creative way.
Experiments can be made up for every topic you can think of.
Before you even start an experiment, explain to the
child what it is you are going to do. Ask what he or she thinks is going to
happen and why. This gets them thinking and gets their scientific brains going.
When you are doing an experiment with a child try to
ask them as many questions about the experiment as you can think of. Why is it
turning that color? How many of these do you think we can put in before it
spills, etc.
Finally, when the experiment is done, explain to
them why the results were the way they were. Try and keep this part to the
level (or slightly higher) than the child’s ability to understand things.
Visual aids help a lot, especially when the experiment had to do with
microscopic elements.
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