Science is not a subject to be taught in the confines of a classroom or by flipping through the pages of a science textbook. Science is taught the right way only if every student develops the habit of questioning the existing ideas and ways of doing things. Every science period must be one filled with exploration of everyday things that the kids observe around them, try to reason out why they work the way they do. It is only then that the findings, theories, discoveries, formulae and inventions that have happened over the course of mankind’s hi
story must get introduced to kids.
Else, we end up creating generations of kids who feel so awed by the genius of former scientists, inventors and discoverers that they are left with a feeling that everything there was to be invented or discovered has already been done so and there is not much work left to be done. This drains out their interest in science. Teachers should avoid this pitfall.
Science must continuously kindle their curiosity and all their observations must be brought into the ambit of careful theorizing, recording, analysis and inferences. Forming a habit of this nature will draw out the innate scientist hidden among all kids.
