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My daughter's really into science lately, and has been especially interested in physics and chemistry lately. Those molecular model kits on Amazon look like fun, especially for a little Aspie like her who likes collecting and arranging things. Would building molecules keep a 3rd grader's attention, or would they quickly get bored of them?
My daughter's really into science lately, and has been especially interested in physics and chemistry lately. Those molecular model kits on Amazon look like fun, especially for a little Aspie like her who likes collecting and arranging things. Would building molecules keep a 3rd grader's attention, or would they quickly get bored of them?
Yes they'd play with them but they wouldn't learn anything from them. Save your money. Chemistry is very abstract and younger children don't think abstractly. Your money would be better spent on concrete concepts like physics. Buy her some air pucks and let her experiment with angle of deflection and conservation of momentum. Save the model kits for high school chemistry IF her school teaches molecular shapes and/or organic compounds.
My daughter's really into science lately, and has been especially interested in physics and chemistry lately. Those molecular model kits on Amazon look like fun, especially for a little Aspie like her who likes collecting and arranging things. Would building molecules keep a 3rd grader's attention, or would they quickly get bored of them?
LOL I've got a touch of the old Aspie myself, and I would have loved to have a kit like that in 3rd grade. She'll love it!
Sure, get it. What's the worst that happens? She doesn't understand everything? What difference does it make? Exposing young kids to higher level concepts is not a bad thing.
What I find weird about all of these education debates on the Internet is so little mention of free and cheap computer education material that is available. Grade school kids can do things that I could not do in college. Programming with keypunch machines was so much fun. LOL
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