Pre-School children are naturally curious and constantly exploring the environments around them. Classroom science lessons provide opportunity for children to extend this natural curiosity. Science provides children with direct experience with materials, events, and ideas that are important for the development of lifelong learning.
Science exploration in early childhood education enables children to explore materials/events, ask questions, investigate, record/represent their work, reflect on what they have done and what it means.
These skills, attitudes, and ways of thinking are important avenues to the many areas of learning throughout life.
With Science children:
Build self-confidence and confidence in their environment
Gain necessary firsthand experiences
Develop basic concepts
Increase observation skills
Receive opportunities to use tools, equipment and familiar materials
Receive aid in problem solving
Stimulate their curiosity for exploration and discovery while increasing basic knowledge
Develop sensory, physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and social attributes
Develop language through increased vocabulary and an opportunity to ask and answer questions
Some science experiences your child will be exposed to but not limited to are:
- senses
- observe and explore materials
- examine materials/comparison of objects
- butterfly project
- plants
- insects
- dinosaurs
- use of magnifier and microscope
- ocean
- solids vs liquids
- sensory
- color mixing
- body parts and functions
- weather/climate
- seasons
- measurements
- prediction & observation