Çocuk ve Bilim Eğitimi

Abstract

To symbolize existence and presence in their mind, children’s ability to arrange sensory impulses and the improvement of this ability is important. In this sense the quality of the concept that the children create in their mind is influenced by environmental aspects. Therewith, there are also some conceptions developed by the children in an educational process under the guidance of an adult. There is a similar observed pattern between the process of children developing concepts and scientists doing scientific research. Children and scientists classify, group and compare the existence in the nature. Thus, both can state the similarities and the differences. To encounter with science in the early ages is crucial for children to support the developing areas that they already have and acquire new directions in these areas. Children must have the abilities of the scientific process to prosecute the activities corresponding to scientific exercises. Consequently, scientific education of children is important.