Tabby puts the finishing touches on her model

When we first tried this experiment we found that most of the kids never seen decals, at least the ones that you soak in water before you put them where you wanted.   These kids took all of their extra decals, decals that were for different versions and put them in a box for future projects.  It was interesting to watch how they put these decals on their custom versions of their models.  These types of thought patterns are what makes a kid smart.

About every ten years, "Scientific American Magazine" does a comparison  study on the education of kids from many countries.  When asked the  simple question, "What do you want?"  The eight year old kids from China said that they wanted a degree, they wanted to be engineers.  The eight year old kids in Chicago said that they wanted toys.   Giving our kids more and having a better life than we had, as the idea of Future Preference states, doesn't mean giving our kids more stuff,  it means giving our kids more knowledge, better knowledge.   Building models is a building block to a better future.