 It's important when learning about the scientific method with children who are 3 and 4 to find things that are meaningful for them. So I like to focus on things like springtime and the plant cycle. I start by having an interactive read aloud for the kids. One that they can think is funny and then act out and really absorb the information. I then have a science experiment for them. This experiment is about growing beans. I have seeds that the children like to plant and it's just a basic bean seed, like this. And they take it and they put it inside a wet paper towel and then we hang them on our window and we make predictions, we guess what will happen to our seed when it is in the window. And over the course of two weeks, we will check on our seeds and we will draw observations about how they change and then at the end we'll plant them and watch them grow even more outside. So our bean starts as a basic seed and as time goes on we unwrap it and we see the changes. There's roots, there's a little sprout and we get to talk about those important vocabulary words and we learn how to be excited for nature and growth and changes.