People today are losing touch with nature. We are forgetting about its meaning and what it does for us. Natural unstructured materials continuously arouse interest and desire for exploration in children, and consequently encourage active learning. The field of technics and technology tends to be forgotten in the process of planning educational work, since the kindergarten curriculum does not consider it an independent subject. Due to the above problem, the purpose of my paper is to implement technical activities within the framework of forest pedagogy for children aged 3 to 6 years and to provide parents with an insight into the whole process.
The thesis is divided into theoretical and empirical parts. The theoretical part relates to forest pedagogy, active learning and developmental characteristics of children aged 3 to 6 years. This section also provides examples of activities for playing and learning in the forest. The empirical part consists of the analysis of the opinion survey and experience of kindergarten teachers with the technology corner. Almost half of the respondents create a technology corner in the playroom every year with its most common activity of hammering nails. The survey is followed by descriptions of the implementation and evaluation of the performed technical activities. We present the activities performed in the technology corner, the technology corner log and the New Year's kindergarten decoration. In the final part we introduce the results of the questionnaires on the parents' opinion of the technology corner, its log and the New Year's workshop. From the given answers, we concluded that parents fully appreciated the idea of the technological corner. In their opinion the corner’s log was transparent and reasonably designed, and as such helped them observe activities. The New Year's workshop was described by most parents as well planned and perfectly executed.
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The thesis is aimed especially towards the kindergarten professionals, as it provides them with examples of how to integrate the field of technics and technology into the educational process and ideas of how to inform and involve parents in the activities.
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