When I was a little kid, I remember assigning scientific rules to things that were
not correct. For example, I thought you could just string the letters of the
periodic table to get new compounds, without at the time knowing that the
compounds had structural reasons for their construction. I think kids have a
pretty good grasp of reality in terms of ghosts that don't exist or Santa Claus
that they are grounded in reality.
Andy Toth wrote:
> anecdote:
>
> when i was five i picked up my friend's plastic baton filled with
> glitter (she was a girl and it was the 1980s) and said "molecules,
> molecules....{invert} molecules". i think she told her mother.
>
> > Is an ordinary 5 year old ready for scientific explanations as the one
> > about
> > bacteria or is just the parents trying very hard to "sync" the kids with
> > their
> > own environment?
> > Mihail
Any child is ready for completely scientific and accurate representations of most
things.
Generally, the kids will ask questions or interact to the level of their interest,
they develop their own worldview somehow.
About bacteria, that would be a good thing to know. If it is known, it is learned
somewhere so it is probably good to know.
Ross
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