Children explore their environment with great enthusiasm. Early science education aims to use this childhood curiosity to develop a lasting interest. At the same time, an age-appropriate examination of animate and inanimate nature should take place in daycare centers. If teachers use everyday natural phenomena as learning opportunities, they will encourage and strengthen children’s curiosity and self-confidence. In addition, they will be able to get to know scientific ideas and approaches at an early age.
Let children discover nature
Young children live in an environment full of physical, chemical, and biological phenomena. It is often enough to direct their attention to these objects and processes and to motivate them to observe them. Since small children still acquire a large part of their knowledge through their senses.
