Wow. There certainly is something to be said for letting your kids dig around in the dirt . . . Check out this BBC video about Matthew Berger, the 9-year-old archaeologist who unearthed (literally!) A NEW SPECIES OF HUMAN.
Set up your own bud
ding entomologist with a readymade backyard toolkit in The Bug Book and Bug Bottle by Hugh Danks. Or encourage your maddest scientist to wreak experimental havoc with Sean Connolly’s The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science. She may not wind up changing the course of history–but then again, who knows!
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