Play Favorites for Building Children Scientific Skill

Steps of the scientific process sounds like very complicated thing for children. Nevertheless, we can make sure that scientific process is crucial thing to understand including for children. It is not just something which should be done by the scientist only. By understanding the scientific process, the children will be able to understand the lesson in the class better. They will also be able to analyze many things around them even when they are not in the classroom. Although scientific process sounds complicated and hard thing to do, we can make sure that the children can build their scientific skill with fun and simple process.

Steps of the scientific process


Play favorites can be very simple way which can be taken for encouraging the children to build their scientific skill especially the prediction skill. It is necessary for working as scientist after all. In the steps of the scientific process, there will be part associated with making hypothesis or prediction. In this circumstance, the children will learn more about this by making the children make the question and of course prediction. The question can be as simple as about what the favorite ice cream flavor of the family is. There are also other simple questions which are associated with the favorite thing of the family including movie and bed time story. People just need to choose the question which can make the children excited.


There will be some steps which can be found in this fun game and it will have association with the scientific process. First of all, the children should guess or predict the answer of the chosen question. The prediction should be written down. After making the prediction, the children should ask every member of the family to get the answer. The answer should be recorded on the paper with tally mark or the Science Notebook. Last but not least, parents can ask the children for making comparison between the early prediction and the actual answer. This way, they can make the conclusion from the hypothesis, data collection, and analysis. Those steps will be pretty fun and of course it sound very simple yet it can represent steps of the scientific process.

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