Status quo: The United States and other developed countries emphasize that "science education begins with children". In the process of learning scientific knowledge, children can accumulate experience, cultivate the spirit of exploration and curiosity, and stimulate the ability to think independently and dare to create.
On the other hand, in China, although science education is included in the five major areas of kindergarten education "health, language, society, science and art" planned by the Guiding Outline of Early Childhood Education (Trial), it is rarely paid attention to by kindergartens, teachers and parents. Most kindergartens spend a lot of time on artistic activities, such as sports activities, storytelling, singing, dancing, painting and handicrafts, and little time on science education.
But in today's society, the spirit of innovation is emphasized, and the cultivation of innovative talents is emphasized. There seems to be a contradiction between such social needs and actual education.
Importance: The Guide to Learning and Development for Children Aged 3-6 points out that science education includes two aspects: scientific inquiry and mathematical cognition, and scientific inquiry pays more attention to the cultivation of children's scientific literacy. Therefore, the science education mentioned in this paper mainly refers to scientific inquiry.
First, strengthening kindergarten science education is the need of social development. Today's society needs more and more innovative talents who dare to explore and discover, and early childhood is a key stage to cultivate the spirit of exploration, curiosity and stimulate independent thinking and creativity.
Second, strengthening kindergarten science education is the need of the development of science education. Throughout one's life's educational experience, science education in kindergartens, science classes in primary schools and mathematics and physics in middle schools all reflect the importance and persistence of science education and scientific literacy for human education, and the starting point of which-science education in kindergartens has laid the foundation for cultivating children's scientific literacy and the next stage of talent training.
Third, it is conducive to the lifelong development of children. The exploration spirit and knowledge contained in science education have a positive impact on children's life and study, and then have a lasting and far-reaching impact on children's life.