Cultivate interest and curiosity
One of the goals of kindergarten science education is to cultivate children's strong interest in the surrounding things and phenomena and stimulate their curiosity and thirst for knowledge.
Cultivation of exploration ability
The second goal of kindergarten science education is to encourage children to use all kinds of senses, use their hands and brains, and cultivate their ability to solve problems.
Improve communication skills
The third goal of kindergarten science education is to encourage children to express and communicate their own exploration process and results in an appropriate way, and to improve their communication skills.
The Importance of Mathematics Education
The fourth goal of kindergarten science education is to let children feel the quantitative relationship of things from life and games, and experience the importance and interest of mathematics.
Cultivation of environmental awareness
The fifth goal of kindergarten science education is to cultivate children to love animals and plants, care about the surrounding environment, be close to nature, cherish natural resources and initially establish environmental awareness.
The main content of natural science
Natural science is one of the main contents of science education in kindergartens. Including exploring the natural environment and feeling the mystery and beauty of nature; Study the scientific phenomena around you and experience the convenience brought by science and technology to life; Understand the characteristics and functions of articles and materials, and find their multiple uses.
The content of mathematics education
Mathematics education is another important content of kindergarten science education. Covers the concept of learning set, multi-angle classification of goods, comparison of quantity; Know numbers within 10, including number sense, recognition, writing and composition; Perception of plane graphics, three-dimensional graphics, orientation, time and other spatial concepts.
The main methods of science education
Kindergarten science education emphasizes children's learning through the interaction of practical operation and material materials. Operation method is the main method for children to explore and learn by fiddling with and manipulating materials. Observation and experiment are also commonly used methods: providing rich operating materials, so that children have the opportunity to use a variety of senses to observe and discover; Under the condition of manual control, simple operation experiments are carried out with equipment to observe changes and phenomena.