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Scoop.it!
For eight weeks, the MIT Education Arcade and the Smithsonian Institute put on an alternate reality game seeking engage children with the scientific method. 
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Scoop.it!
Children's play is actually a form of learning, a way to investigate the causal mechanisms in the world around them. "Exploratory play is a complex phenomenon," write the authors of the new study, "presumably subserving a range of functions other than the generating informative evidence...However, to the extent that children acquire causal knowledge through exploration, the current results begin to bridge the gap between scientific inquiry and child's play." The task for parents and teachers is to present knowledge while preserving a sense of uncertainty.
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