The Utilization of Practical Activity Packages to Develop Scientific Skills of Preschool Children

Abstract

The Utilization of Practical Activity Packages to Develop Scientific Skills of Preschool Children

The purposes of this research were to develop scientific skills for preschool children and to compare the preschool children’s scientific skills before and after the provision of practical activities. The target population were 17 preschool children studying in the second level of kindergarten at Ban Wan School, under Ubon Ratchathani Educational Service Area Office 4. The research instruments were the practical activity packages to develop scientific skills of preschool children, and test of scientific skills of preschool children. The collected data were analyze by mean and standard deviation.

The research findings were as follows: scientific skills of preschool children were outstanding in observation communication and classification. It was also found that preschool children had higher scientific skills in posttest mean score than pretest mean score.