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(Unit 2) Topic 6: Simple Science

2 Clock Hours of Early Childhood Education

Fostering Science Exploration in Young Children

Topic 6 Page 9

Children are biologically prepared to learn about the world around them, just as they are biologically prepared to learn to walk and talk and interact with other people. Because they are ready to learn about the everyday world, young children are highly engaged when they have the opportunity to explore. They create strong and enduring mental representations of what they have experienced in investigating the everyday world. They readily acquire vocabulary to describe and share these mental representations and the concepts that evolve from them. Children then rely on the mental representations as the basis for further learning and for higher order intellectual skills such as problem solving, hypothesis testing, and generalizing across situations. Children’s natural interests in science can be the foundation for developing these skills.