Using questions sent to an Ask‐A‐Scientist site to identify children's interests in science

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Science Interests in Preschool Boys and Girls: Relations to Later Self-Concept and Science Achievement. (2013, background): “…in science also vary across gender with older elementary and middle school boys expressing more interest in X-rays and technology and girls expressing more interest in health, animals, and biology (Baram-Tsabari & Yarden, 2005; Baram-Tsabari et al., 2006; Dawson, 2000; Farenga & Joyce, 1999).”
Girls’ biology, boys’ physics: evidence from free‐choice science learning settings (2008, methodology): “It was also shown that young children are very interested in animals, and their interest shifts toward human biology as they approach puberty (Baram-Tsabari and Yarden 2005, 2007; Baram-Tsabari et al. 2006).”
Students' questions: a potential resource for teaching and learning science (2008, background): “A subsequent study by Baram‐Tsabari, Sethi, Bry, and Yarden ( 2006 ) of children's questions submitted to an international Ask‐A‐Scientist Internet site based in the USA also found biology questions to be the most popular and similar gender‐related interests fitting the well‐known stereotypic prefer”