Curiosity and Learning Science

From the NAEYC:

“All adults who work with and/or have children know that children are born curious and compelled to investigate everything in the world around them using all their senses. Although we expect and want young children to be curious, we often do not recognize the important role curiosity plays in learning. Curiosity motivates children to learn and try new things and is a fundamental scientific attitude. The most important thing adults can do to promote children’s science learning is to nurture their curiosity. This means creating safe environments for curious hands: providing objects, materials, living things, and experiences that are responsive to children’s interests, and supporting their explorations even when they are messy, noisy, or inconvenient. Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and director of Hayden Planetarium, says it best in the video “Let Kids Be Kids.” Although letting children break eggs on the kitchen floor may be a stretch, try saying yes to children’s curiosity-driven explorations more often.”

We couldn’t say it better ourselves.  At Sequoia’s Treehouse, this could easily be our mission statement, and we are going to shout it from the rooftops until we have all parents converted to the value of nature-based learning.

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