Impact Of Early Childhood

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In the quote from Mary Budd Rowe, “science is creating stories about how the world works” she is expressing that through exploration, inquiring, guessing, experimenting, constructing, data, solving, discussing, analyzing, and many other aspects of science you can obtain a better understanding of how the world works.
Science can tell a story through the exploration and formulation of ideas you obtain during exploration. Through this process you can come up with information on how things work. It is like when my son asked me “ how do plants grow?” This is a simple enough question but the explanation is a little more difficult for him to understand. The next question he had was “why are your plants so yellow?” I explained to him that plants need sunlight and water to grow and only certain amounts. But this did not explain why mom’s plants are yellow in color. So I explained to him that mom has not been taking care of her plants and how would he like to try to take better care of them so they will become green again. After a few weeks, my son was able to get most of my plants green in color, all except one that died from to much watering. Another question formed in his mind, he wonder why most of the plants turned green with the same amount of water but one died with the same amount of water. This process my son used was inquiring about the natural world, getting explanations, and he also experimented so that he could form his own ideas about how the world works. Although his initial question led him to ask another question, it was through this process that he could get answers to his questions. My son is always asking question about how many things in the world works, and it was not until recently that I encourage him to find the answers thru research and experiments of his own.
Edgar-
I feel this is what Mary Budd Rowe means when she said science creates stories on how the world works. My son created his own...