Helping Your Child Learn Science

Developing Your Child’s Scientific Understanding

Washington, D.C. – Children can be introduced gradually to basic scientific concepts that will provide a framework for understanding and connecting many scientific facts and observations.

Here will focus on five concepts and processes taken from the National Science Education Standards, released in 1996 by the National Resource Council of the National Academy of Sciences.^{[ 2 ]}

You can easily introduce your child to the following five concepts through many simple science-related activities that you and your child can do at home or in the community.

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