And surrounding scientific inquiry, is scientific discourse, which is now taught...

And surrounding scientific inquiry, is scientific discourse, which is now taught even down towards K. Eg, don't chose among widely-differing jellybean counts based on friendship.

Apropos children and verification, while looking for something to point to, I stumbled on and enjoyed the introduction section of https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2018/papers/0062/0062.pdf , fwiw.