Science for Kids: Why it Matters...
by John Turano
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Science for kids is all about benefiting from human curiosity.
Imagine sitting by the campfire fifty or sixty thousand years ago trying to explain to your kid why the moon moves across the sky. Or, how about living in 15th century Europe trying to understand why everyone around you is dying of plague? For fifteen centuries people believed that the earth was the center of the universe.
In the late 1800s, the U.S. Patent Office announced that everything that could be invented, had been...failing to foresee commercial aviation, radio and television, space flight, video games, Pringles, cell phones, the internet, and the iPad among other things.
Science brought all of these things to our lives, and science starts with kids.
And curiosity.
Why Kids NEED to Love Science
Kids who don't understand how science shaped the world we live in today do not understand why electricity is different than magic, how human minds and human effort have created a world in which most children survive to adulthood, or why technology upholds everything that matters in civilization.
Kids who do not know the subject cannot envision a world better tomorrow than it is today-or do anything to make that world a reality.
A solid understanding of science is the heart and soul of human knowledge.
The World Without Scientific Thought...
Louis Pasteur said that there is no such thing as applied science, only the applications of science.
Science is not dry technical data irrelevant to your life. It is daily, real-world action.
Nearly everything you use, touch, eat, drink, see, or do every day is the result of scientific thinking , which is human thought and effort applied to the betterment of human existence.
From tap water to sidewalks to the food on your table, to the vitamins you take, the light you read by at night, the toilet you flush and the door you lock-and the lock that locks it-your existence is made possible by people who applied scientific thinking and human effort to a vision of what the world could be.
