Grab your lab coat and goggles – it’s time to discuss why it’s so important to communicate science to young children.
It’s an experience not many kids have - the opportunity to observe what scientists get up to in a world-class laboratory.
University of Technology Sydney (UTS) academics invited a group of four- to seven-year-olds into the Hive SuperLab to engage with research going on around campus.
The kids tasted honey samples with a microbiologist and pulled apart model eyeballs with orthoptists. They talked numbers with a mathematician and sharks with a marine scientist. And they asked questions in an almost endless stream.
Researchers say it’s never too early to get kids involved with science.
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