Scientific enlightenment is to choose what children can explore directly and let them learn what they can through their own direct exploration activities.

Scientific enlightenment is to choose what children can understand, put complex and profound scientific principles into simple and obvious phenomena, and let children have a superficial understanding of scientific knowledge through specific experiences. Scientific enlightenment is to choose the familiar content in children's daily life and guide them to discover the scientific content in daily life.

Common methods of science education for preschool children;

1, observation methods: first, direct observation with the help of senses, and second, indirect observation through instruments. It can be divided into single object observation, long-term systematic observation, accidental observation and indoor and outdoor environment observation.

2. Classification: Preschool children collect objects with one or several common characteristics to learn scientific methods. The commonly used classification methods of preschool children include selective classification, binary classification and multivariate classification.

3. Early scientific reading: Children learn science by reading works with scientific knowledge, including stories, nursery rhymes and riddles. It can be divided into popular science poems, popular science fairy tales, riddles, popular science picture books and videos.

Characteristics of preschool children's science education;

1, the comprehensiveness of the goals of science education for preschool children.

Preschool children's science education is the scientific enlightenment education, which not only enables children to gain scientific experience, but more importantly, in the process of gaining experience, children's physical and mental development is comprehensive and harmonious, that is, in the process of children's exploration, children's cognition, emotion, skills and sociality are all developed.

2. Life-oriented science education for preschool children.

Science education for preschool children should choose the content that children are familiar with, close to children and close to nature. Activities should also be life-oriented, that is, science education should run through children's lives, and attention should be paid to grasping the contents and opportunities of science education in life.

3. Exploration process of preschool children's science education.

Children are full of curiosity and eager to explore and understand the world. In fact, it is through their own exploration activities that they know and understand the world.