Completing the Circuit
Hands-on Experience
  Encouraging children to experience the process of science, by getting their hands on real materials and observing, measuring, and testing for themselves leads to greater interest in, understanding of, and appreication for science as it is done in the real world. photo of classroom
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"She gave them batteries buzzers, bells, and motors. She left it wide open for them to explore and experiment for quite a long period of time so that by the time they were finished, they were quite deeply engaged in circuitry."
Sally Crissman
4th grade teacher, Cambridge, MA


 
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