Science is about finding the way to discover the world around us: interpreting the magic of our existence. This is what children are doing everyday as they are growing up. Kids in their early years are still learning new things every day. This is why science is so exciting at an early age; we are able to make sense of our environment. I believe this is why science is so interesting to kids early on and why they are so involved.
Later on in life, for example at the middle school age, children are still figuring out their own worlds but this begins to change for them as they become more social and less scientific. Science is not seen as something new and exciting anymore. Instead, children are forced to study and read books and complete less experiments. At a young age, we are all scientists, running experiments of our own: seeing what we can get away with on a daily basis. Later on, we already know what we are capable of and somewhere along the way we lose sight of that inquisitiveness that we all have as children. Perhaps its the textbooks, the classroom structure, and the lack of recess and FUN that is included in science when we're younger.
I think the science writer can and should be motivated to change this problem and reintegrate science in the inner child of every adult. If we work to keep the fun in science and show older children and teenagers that science can still be fun we can keep them interested. I remember I had a science teacher that showed us experiments with dry ice and worked with different color flames (everybody likes fire) that made our class excited to go everyday to see what we would see! We didn't even realize we were learning on the way because we were intrigued and most importantly, we were having fun. In order to keep science alive we must work to keep the interest. This includes less work in the classroom and more field work; less lectures and more questions; less passivity and more action.
