ORGANIZING EXPERIMENTS TO DEVELOP PREDICTING SKILLS IN PRESCHOOL SCIENCE ACTIVITIES

Predicting skills are crucial for preschoolers, given their innate curiosity and desire to understand how things work. Experiment activities provide valuable opportunities for preschoolers to explore, discover, and ask questions. Conducting experiments proves to be an effective teaching method for developing predicting skills in preschool children aged 5 to 6 years old. This article details how to organize experiments to cultivate predicting skills in preschool science activities. To foster predicting skills in preschool science activities, teachers should follow six key steps: Identify the problem/ experiment’s content, Encourage preschoolers to make predictions, Conduct the experiment, Guide children to observe and find results, Have children record the experiment’s results, and Share findings and results.