Spark: A Reaction on ‘Mind Movers’

by 2009-50781

                Many groups, organizations or associations nowadays promote science as a very exciting field of study or discipline. They try to debug the notion that Science is just for the geeks. Mind Museum is one of them. They try to catch the interest of the young in order to stimulate creative and critical thinking.

                A group of people from Mind Museum called Mind Movers visited our class to show and demonstrate before us how they promote a fun learning style for Science.

                At first, it was entertaining and interesting to hear from them because, personally, I have not been there yet. Also, it was interesting to hear from the speakers as they told us they were both Science major graduates. I had this thinking that Science majors would then go into research laboratories or industries instead. So I listened well.

                However, when they started demonstrating experiments, I started thinking that it was not appropriate. The experiments were okay, but they really designed for children. So, most of the students in the class were really not into it.

                Still, at the end, upon stating their reason for doing such, I realized the importance of all of these. According to them, it was not about giving kids an advanced lecture on theories they will encounter in school; instead, it was giving children something to spark their interest and curiosity.