Today I have been working with our youngest on understanding a pretty important concept, the differenc ebetween a scientific theory, and the use of the word by a casual observer. It was not easy, but we used how driving theory is developed through testing and measuring and establishing safe driving protocols through that, in order to codify them into law.
The hard part is to get a kid to understand the difference between say, The Theory of Evolution, based on scientific findings such as in archeology, astronomy, Paleontology, biology, DNA testing, and many other fields, versus two dudes sitting around a campfire one night getting stoned and one of them saying he thinks the universe was created by grasshoppers so people could farm and make crops, but because people are so far advanced, the grasshopper made weed to keep the humans from completely surpassing their creators, the grasshoppers. The kid loves her science, but needs a sound understanding of things like the differences between theories and guesses, and how people confuse the words describing them.
It’s break time now, and the kids are playing about or socializing with friends. It seems a good day to take the part about observations out to the field and make observations in the pasture prior to the the lowering of the canal into pipes and burying it, thus reducing the leeching that happens in our field, watering it from below. Hard part will include what things to measure and record in order to cmpare to new observations in the future, after the canal is underground.
First observation worth a note right now is the weather.
