Why use handson science in addition to a text book?
As a result of decades of experience and research we now know that children learn science best by doing science. Students should have hands-on personal experiences with objects, materials, and organisms in order to understand the natural world. Real experiences provide the foundation for concept development. Using a textbook (and it doesn’t have to have a recent copyright date) as a reference resource to look up more information about a topic under investigation is expanding the notion of reading in the science program to include multitudes of reading materials, both fiction and nonfiction.
