There is a saying in China that "three years old means three years old, and seven years old means seven years old", which means that a child's performance as a child often determines his achievements in life. When Jia Baoyu "robbed Zhou" that year, he grasped the ring tightly with rouge powder, which immediately angered Jia Zheng and later denounced him as a libertine. From the perspective of modern people, it is obviously unscientific to predict children's future by grasping the week, or to assert children's future achievements from their performance at the age of 37. But it also shows that people attach great importance to early childhood education: well-done early childhood education can at least lay the foundation for the healthy development of children throughout their lives. Back to our topic: in layman's terms, what's the use of doing science education for preschool children here? First of all, I admire people who can boldly ask the question "What's the use". He is responsible for his own life. Imagine what it feels like when you learn a lot, do a lot of things and find it useless to yourself. Therefore, if we want to study and promote science education for preschool children, we have to ask "what's the use". Of course, there are many kinds of "usefulness", some are "practical use" and some are "humanistic use"; Some are "for the present" and some are "for the future" ... You need to think more, or you will easily fall into the wrong path of "extreme utilitarianism". Get to the point, talk about the role of science education for preschool children. We can sum up in one sentence: scientific education for preschool children can lay the foundation for the healthy development of children throughout their lives. The specific points are as follows: 1. It is conducive to cultivating and caring for children's curiosity and thirst for knowledge. Curiosity simply means asking why and wanting to know why, and these are the cornerstones of improving thinking ability. Without curiosity and thirst for knowledge, people's thinking ability will stagnate. Now it often happens that someone is cheated of how much money, of course, because he lacks social experience. The deeper reason is that he is "indifferent" to what he has encountered, without any doubt, without thinking about why, and he is simply cheated. Therefore, my research on science education draws a conclusion that people who lack curiosity and thirst for knowledge tend to look at the world with a "mediocre" and "indifferent" attitude. He rarely asks "why" and rarely considers the reason behind a thing-in this way, he often loses his "vigilance" in the face of bad people and bad things, while in the face of unexpected events, he often goes with the flow and has no opinion. By the way, people who lack curiosity and thirst for knowledge are often people who find it difficult to find the beauty of life. 2. Improve hands-on ability and promote sensory development. There are abundant scientific experiments, scientific games and handmade works in science education, which are all good forms to exercise children's hands-on ability. For example, the "hand shadow play", "folding airplane", "squeezing mud (plasticine can replace it)" and "making model airplane" mentioned in my previous article are all very good. Children often start work, and their brains, eyes and hands should be constantly coordinated. Of course, the more they use it, the more flexible their senses become. 3. Exercise the ability of language expression. The Magic School Bus is a good popular science book. Although preschool children may not know the words in it, parents can still tell them. After listening, let the children speak for themselves and exercise their language skills. After doing a scientific experiment or a scientific game (such as an origami boat), try to get the child to say how he made it-the child will feel a sense of accomplishment after completing the origami boat, and at this time let him say that the effect will be very good-no matter what he says. In short, children should express their ideas if given the opportunity. After a long period of accumulation, the progress will be obvious. 4. Enrich children's math experience. Some children can't learn math well in primary and secondary schools, which may be related to their lack of experience in this field. For example, children who play with building blocks, rolling iron rings and building sand piles from childhood often have a good perception of three-dimensional graphics, while those without these experiences find it difficult to establish a geometric figure in their brains, especially when the geometric figure is complex, they will be immediately confused; Some children's parents are in business and often settle accounts, so their children's oral and written computing skills are relatively strong ... Of course, it does not mean that they will get full marks in mathematics if they have rich mathematical experience-this statement is not only unscientific, but also irresponsible-but at least it can lay the foundation for children to learn mathematics well. It is a very serious subject to help children scientifically expand their knowledge, enrich their knowledge reserves and expand their knowledge. Nowadays, children are very smart, with a lot of things in their little heads, and they are almost adults. Parents are often proud to see their children "know astronomy above and geography below", but they don't know that this is the result of the explosion of information in our society. Therefore, by expanding knowledge, we mean that under the guidance of science education, children can improve, perfect and optimize their knowledge structure, enrich their knowledge reserves, and then know how to find what they need in the vast ocean of information-by no means just grab a handful of "knowledge" and teach it to children. 6. temper your child's character. People will inevitably encounter difficulties in their lives. It is not terrible to have difficulties. The terrible thing is that there is no confidence and courage to defeat them. In science education, we can help children build confidence and courage to overcome difficulties and temper their character. Here is a science game: playing puzzles. Anyone who plays jigsaw puzzles (I mean many pieces) knows that Bill Gates often plays jigsaw puzzles, which is a very challenging game and a test of one's intelligence, carefulness, patience and perseverance. I remember my cousin (sophomore this year) likes playing puzzles and is good at them, but he often gives up halfway. In the process of playing, children gradually understand that to accomplish one thing, they must not only be smart, but also persist and believe that they can succeed. 7. Enriching children's life experience With the development of society, children have less and less opportunities to get in touch with nature and less and less emotional experience-parents tell their children that they can't understand their childhood days because they haven't experienced them-and science education can make up for this to some extent. Watch the animal world with children, plant flowers with children, do simple carpentry with children (make a small bookcase), do small scientific experiments with children (such as how magnets attract metals), watch astronomy with children, and travel with children ... Such children are really happy! 8. Improve children's ability to solve problems. Scientific experiments, scientific games and scientific products are all a complete process of solving problems. Children need to organize information → think carefully → propose plans → take actions → solve problems. Although children are still immature in this process, they will eventually internalize this problem-solving ability and become their own things-at first, children need the guidance and help of their parents. 9. Encourage children to learn to communicate and cooperate with others and improve their interpersonal skills. At school, the child's scientific activities are not his own, he has to do them with other children. There will be friction, different opinions and many unexpected things when there are many people. What should I do? Many parents are worried that their children will be bullied and often get involved in "things between children". In fact, this is a good time to train them to deal with problems normally and improve their interpersonal skills. I suggest that you just give your children some guidance and let them handle the rest by themselves. 10. Helping children form a scientific world outlook, outlook on life and values. World outlook, outlook on life and values are people's views on the world and people, things and things in the world. What people used to think was good is not necessarily good now because of different values. Preschool children's world outlook, outlook on life and values are still in the "embryonic" stage, and he will learn whatever you give him.