[WheelsAtLarge]

Books are tools they can use to gain knowledge. You need to find books that get them to create projects that use science as its base and praise them not for the project but the hard work it took to finish the project. You need to be available to answer questions. Not on the project but on how they can find the answer to the questions they have. Giving them direct answers will just make them dependent on getting the answers from someone as opposed to getting the answers themselves. Also, encourage them to create something a bit more complicated. The idea is to lead them up the latter of knowledge with encouragement and praise while they learn how to find answers for themselves.

One of the failures of schools is that we are taught from childhood that there will always be someone with the answer. If we don't know the answer them all we have to do is ask a power figure. Schools should be teaching kids how to ask questions and how to find the answers for themselves.