Children love to explore and perform experiments. I decided to introduce them sugar a little differently, as we use it every day. We never take time to look at sugar, what is actually going on, with it.
I decided for the preschool group, because children in the preoperative phase are already starting to develop understanding, and they can also think about things they don’t perceive at that moment.
The purpose of diploma thesis, was to bring sugar closer to children, to test activities that develop a natural understanding of sugar, to discover children's explanations of dissolution, and to compare activities and findings with research which are already conducted.
In the theoretical part of the thesis, I will present the development of natural science concepts, in children, from the point of view, of constructivism, how children understand dissolution, and how their understanding, is already researched, what is sugar and dissolution, and how to place our work, including in the curriculum for kindergartens.
In the empirical part, we will explore with children, what happens to sugar in water, what dissolution means, whether they are already able to develop an idea about the preservation of matter in water. At first, they will answer a few questions individually, then we will perform experiments, noticed them on posters, which they will also be able to view for a long time. After a while, I will question them again, so that I can find out how their understanding has changed.
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