DESIGNING EXPERIMENTS TO HELP ENHANCE 5-6 YEAR OLD CHILDREN’S SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION ACTIVITIES IN NURSERY SCHOOLS

Abstract

Scientific discovery is an activity that enables children to learn about things and phenomena around them. In scientific discovery activities, children’s experience is identical with undergoing a process of exploration, discovery, experimentation and creativity, which helps them form their thinking capacity, their judgment and problem solving skills as well as nurture their passion for discovery. These are preconditions necessary for children throughout their lives. If the experiments are applied to the activities of scientific discovery to make these activities become useful ones, the children will become active factors in the process of acquiring knowledge. For children aged 5-6 in nursery schools, instead of following the path of providing them with available knowledge, designing experiments in the activities of scientific discovery is a helpful and effective way.