{"id":247,"date":"2012-07-05T16:39:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T15:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowyouknowabout.com\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2015-09-05T12:06:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T12:06:57","slug":"science-inspiration-for-toddlers-primary-schoolers-and-pre-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nowyouknowabout.com\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Science inspiration for toddlers, primary schoolers and pre-teens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three states<\/p><\/div>\n

The big news out of CERN, the nuclear research lab is that they’re pretty sure they’ve nailed the Higgs Boson – aka the God particle.\u00a0 I can barely understand a word they’re saying and conceptually I am completely lost (never any good at physics).\u00a0 But all of us can recognise that this is a big deal for science.<\/p>\n

With nanotechnology, stem cell research and particle physics zooming ahead, there’s no more exciting time that now to get your young children into the wonders of science.\u00a0 But how?\u00a0 Not by trying to explain sub-atomic particles – even with oranges and apples to demonstrate, that’s just too tough!<\/p>\n

Why not get inspired by this news to have a science-y kind of week at home this holidays.\u00a0 Start in the kitchen, every mum’s very own lab, and\u00a0examine water:\u00a0 it’s liquid – drink it.\u00a0 It’s solid – smash it into pieces.\u00a0 It’s gas – watch it billow up out of the kettle.\u00a0 Simple but that’s the 3 states of matter all wrapped up in a flash.<\/p>\n

Follow that up with a bedtime watch of the fun biography films of famous scientists like Isaac Newton, Galileo, Marie Curie or Louis Pasteur and you may just sow a science seed in your preschooler’s young brain.<\/p>\n

And they might just begin to\u00a0look more\u00a0closely at things around them and ask questions.\u00a0 I think that’s the first step on the road to CERN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The big news out of CERN, the nuclear research lab is that they’re pretty sure they’ve nailed the Higgs Boson – aka the God particle.\u00a0 I can barely understand a word they’re saying and conceptually…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n