Let him collect and imagine as well as do. I once taught science to
kindergarten students in a school with a very good academic reputation.
The usual problem isn't that they can't understand (although there are
some) but that the average teacher doesn't understand... After weeks of
going over electricity and magnetic fields in fundamental ways, I would
bring in wire and all sorts of  'parts', invite the principal to class,
and without any previous discussion on it, I would give them a 'final
exam' in the form of designing and building a working generator and
powering something. I would purposely avoid generation in previous
discussions and you could see them think it through as a group, design
it, then wind it and build it. I only offered my hands to do anything
they thought I could do faster or more delicately, silently following
their instructions.

They could explain the working of most of the devices in the classroom,
they would create the working generator on their own, and the principal
and their homeroom teacher never where able to do what they could... I
had the chance to talk to a few of them a few years later and they still
remembered the theory and the classes, which were still ahead of what
they were getting in their current science classes. They are capable of
much more than they are typically given.

-Skip


Alexandre Guimar=E3es wrote:
>     Is it too soon ? Is there any way to make it fun for him ? I would ha=
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> to let him loose interest and he is very interested now... Almost everyda=
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> he looks at my garbage can looking for "boards", wires and anything that =
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> throw away..
>
> Best regards,
> Alexandre Guimaraes
>
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