Reddit reviews The Everything Kids' Science Experiments Book: Boil Ice, Float Water, Measure Gravity-Challenge the World Around You!

My oldest, now 10, sounds much like your son. He showed an interest in science from about the same age. He won the 4th grade science fair this year. :D

OK, done with my bragging. There are a lot of good videos & documentaries on youtube & netflix also. It really depends on what your son's methods of learning are. Personally, visual, with followup conversations seemed to work best with him. All kids learn differently, so if he seems to be getting bored, try something new.

This book is his ALL TIME favorite book. Here is another that the two of you can do together.

Find what works best for him, and switch it up often to make sure he is staying excited. Bright young minds have a tendency to wander fast when they're not being engaged. Good luck, and congrats on raising a great kid!

Maybe you can use science to foster his curiosity and critical thinking skills.
There are books about science experiments for children, like this one for example. You can involve him by asking what he thinks will happen in an experiment or how he thinks something interesting works. As long as you stay away from stuff like evolution, there will be no direct conflict with his religion, but if you can get him to use reason and to question things, he might some day use these skills on the religious stuff he's being told as well.

What got me to go down the science route was the "cool" hands on stuff I got to do as a kid.

Two examples are when my dad got us some wires, a light bulb, and some miscellaneous and we made different circuits "flashlights". He let me play around with it and make my own so I could use it at nights so I thought it was cool that more battery = brights, longer wire = dimmer, and the important lesson that Light bulbs generate heat. I just messed around with it using different stuff, seeing what was conductive and what wasn't so on forth. Another one he did with me was wrapping a wire around a large nail to make a magnet. I thought all of this was cool shit.

This was kind of a start to me reading more sciencey books, learning cool stuff to do, which lead me to like reading which in the end turned into a vicious cycle.

What I liked about it is that it wasn't forced on me, but it was given as a fun project. Made me want to pursue it further. more I looked, more fun it got.

One thing I would suggest is to get a book of experiments or look some up online and do one together every weekend. It can be whatever, chemistry, mechanics, etc. I just googled this for you.

http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Kids-Science-Experiments-Gravity-Challenge/dp/1580625576

This is just my 2 cents.

-Wish the best and good luck!

I'm a youth and family program assistant at the library where I work. I could use some kids books! Well, a kids book since we're going for a $10 item and kids books are ridiculously expensive sometimes. I would love to have my own copy of The Day the Crayons Quit. It's always checked out from the library and it'd be nice to have a copy that I can take with me to storytimes without needing to plan it ahead of time. This science experiment book would be awesome, too, if you wanted to gift two people something around $5 each. I'm working on a series of STEAM storytimes. I'm really looking forward to it. This would be a great book to get ideas from.

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i dont know much about kid sizes since i am only a university student and dont have kids of my own, i would love to help you guys out this Christmas, if you can message me back telling me if the snow pants are okay for the triplets and what size is the correct one(i believe you said 5/6 but i want to make sure is the right size), i also saw they like science and as a science guy myself, i wanted to send them this science book, let me know if its a good idea and if they would like it

Contrary to popular belief, it is not that difficult to qualify as a national finalist. I am very close with a few of the 2018 and 2019 campers, and they barely even study. In fact, the only textbook they seem to use is this one: https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Kids-Science-Experiments-Gravity-Challenge/dp/1580625576/ref=zg_bs_3214_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=4VN9EKWFQHHGJMV5K25N which isn't even that difficult to cram the night before the exam.

As for college, many campers do not attend IVY league/HYPSM schools, with only 2/11 getting into MIT. My advice to you would be to follow your passion. What gets you out of bed in the morning?