Science education for preschool children takes science education as the object, and adopts some feasible methods to educate children according to certain goals.

It aims to enlighten all preschool children scientifically, cultivate their scientific quality at an early stage and promote the all-round development of children's comprehensive quality. From the perspective of educational objects, it includes scientific enlightenment education for children aged 0-6; From the institutional nature of education, it includes educational activities carried out by various institutions such as kindergartens, families and society.

Characteristics of Science Education for Preschool Children

1, long-term goal

With the passage of time, the goal of preschool science education tends to be rational and scientific. Preschool children are no longer required to learn knowledge and develop their abilities unilaterally, but also to cultivate their positive emotions and attitudes and develop good living habits. People began to pay attention to children's perceptual experience and scientific methods.

2. Life-oriented and generative content?

Taking the things and phenomena around us as the objects of scientific inquiry can make children pay attention to the things around them, meet the needs of practical exploration, and provide the premise and possibility for children to gain direct experience in understanding the world around them.

3. Diversity of methods?

There are eight main methods of children's science education: observation, experiment, planting and feeding, classification, measurement, expression and communication, science games and early scientific reading. Various educational methods have increased children's interest in learning scientific knowledge.