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The Independent Summer School: Day 3 - Science: With work like this, who needs play? Children are natural scientists. In fact, says Sanjida O'Connell, it requires scarcely any `teaching' to put their native curiosity to good educational use
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Science has never been as important to our lives as it is now.
Today's world is dominated by mobile phones, laptops, palmtops and
devices that let your fridge tell the supermarket you're low on
marge. We can fax, wap, text, e-mail, and cyber-chat.
Even if we're reluctant to join the global village, we might want
to decide whether we should have clones or pollution-free transport,
or whether we should grow replacement hearts, live on Mars or live
longer. "In order to engage in the deba...
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Children's curiosity fosters love of science.(Family Times)(Home-Schooling Today)
The Washington Times
; ... everyday life. If children do not see the relevance of a subject, they often tune it out. Be on the lookout for science in the news, and be prepared to share how science affects your children's lives. The third way to get your children interested in science ...
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CHILDREN AND SCIENCE EDUCATION:VERNON J. EHLERS
Congressional Testimony
; 00-00-0000 Opening Statement Congressman Vernon J. Ehlers Hearing on NATIONAL SCIENCE POLICY STUDY Math and Science Education I: Maintaining the Interest of Young Kids in Science March 4, 1998 Today's hearing is about one of our nation's most valuable resources: our children. They are dependent
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Intra-active: the child/animal in children's SF.(science fictions)(Essay)
Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature
; In 1979 Ruth Hubbard asserted that 'science is the most respected legitimator of new realities' (Hubbard et al 1979, p.8-9). Science, however, is quite clearly political, particularly the speed, competition, capital and power which underpins it's overarching cultural influence in constructing
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 "The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA)")
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Denying science to little children cheats everyone.(LOCAL NEWS)
The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA)
; Byline: Jerry D. Valadez As the current school year comes to an end the debate over what children should learn is again coming to the public arena. Many great ideas will emerge, but the status quo will prevail and the many innovations proposed would eventually be constrained by our inability to
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Does science give you a headache as a parent? (kits available provide answers to scientific questions asked by children)
Science Activities
; DOES SCIENCE give you a headache as a parent? Then send away for the new Making Science Make Sense Parents' Survival Kit, which was recently released by aspirin manufacturer Bayer Corporation. Such questions as Why is the sky blue? Why is the Earth round? and How does a motor run? need no longer
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