This research explores the ideas and feelings about science of an ethnically diverse group of children in Grades 2 through 6, using drawings, questionnaires, brainstorming sessions, ethnographic observation and clinical interviews. In this chapter I present some findings to date along with the framework and motivation for work in progress. This current effort involves working with children in science explorations. It is rooted in questions they generate and aimed at helping them understand in a deeper and more concrete (Turkle & Papert, 1991; Wilensky, 1991) way the process by which scientific understanding is generated.