Children remember the experiment that fizzed on a Saturday more clearly than any worksheet. That is not a slogan — it is how memory works when emotion and surprise show up together.
Kitchen-table science works because it is close. The tools look like home. The questions (“why did it bubble?”) belong to the child, not the textbook.
We built the Aurora Discovery Lab so parents across the UK can say yes without a chemistry degree. Every card shows the “why” in one sentence.
Keep sessions short. Stop while they still want one more. That hunger is the real curriculum.