Natural science education in early childhood. Educational and practical guide

When is the stone a stone? How many balloons do you need to raise sunglasses into the air? What distinguishes insects from other animals? Find answers to such questions, children develop natural scientific ideas.
Specialists in the field of pedagogy and psychology believe that children are born researchers and experimenters. The task of natural scientific education in preschool age is to support and develop children"s interest in living and inanimate nature during observations, conducting experiments, excursions, and also form natural-scientific thinking on the basis of systemic ideas about nature and relationships that exist in it. In this book, the reader will find not only the presentation of the general principles of preschool education in the field of natural sciences, but also examples of projects implemented in practice.
The proposed training manual is included in the series of books in the framework of the project “Inspiration. To create a nature of knowledge ”and introduces readers to the experience of foreign kindergartens in the field of early natural scientific development.
The publication is intended for teachers and methodologists of preschool education, employees of children"s centers, parents interested in the versatile development of their children