>>13809830That age group learns by doing. Measurement is science lesson no one objects to.
Get a large piece of cardboard or a large piece of paper and tape it up to block a doorway. Tell them that they are going to cut a large hole in the cardboard that we want everyone to walk through but cannot go to the ground or to the top of the doorway without it falling down. you want to cut the smallest hole possible that everyone can easily walk through like a hatch. Maybe tell them that it is like a submarine door that the class is designing....
Have them find out the minimum of the hole by the smallest person who can step up over the bottom, and the maximum of the hole that the tallest won't have to duck.
First do it without measuring devices. Have them line up smallest to tallest. Then the smallest person's step up is the bottom, and the tallest person is the top.
You can expand on these kinds of things with measurement.
Another one is to give everyone a different length of paper strip, and have them fold it in half and half again to make measurements with, then have them measure something in common. When they all come up with different measurements you can teach them how to normalize what they have, then teach them how to agree on a standard.
stuff like this... It makes them DO science by discovering themselves and teaches them that it is our cooperative view that corroborates that makes it science.
Later you can tell them that god is a lie.
