How Is It Possible to Enhance the Relationships Between Children and Environmental Things?

Fulya OZTAS, Ayşegül SARIKAYA, Ayşe ALPTEKİN

Abstract


The children are usually curious about their environment and the items found around of them. To ask questions to figure out the new situations they encounter is their main learning way. The child development and education not only describes developmental phenomena for but also facilitates observations of and analyses of what children say, do, and create, ensuring that educators can make informed decisions that meet children's and adolescent's needs. In this process their environmental values can strongly influence the learning processes of children and environmental things provides abundant opportunities for children to develop cognitively, socially, and physically in healthy ways.It is well known that children in generally come to preschool settings with experiences and skills that need to be acknowledged and guided toward new learning opportunities. In this case their imaginative and exploratory skills should be taken seriously by teachers. The classroom environments should provide many opportunities for children to develop their social interactions, encourage social and cognitive competence development, and promote positive climate and trust.It is well known that living prominently helps children to cultivate their capacity for learning by providing many highly stimulating and engaging opportunities to structure their knowledge. The young children continually confronts opportunities to assign names and categories to basic and nearly ubiquitous features of his or her life, including trees, bushes, plants, flowers, birds, mammals, habitats, and landscapesInteractions between children and teacher have a critical role in the preschool children’s learning environments. In this case preschool children voluntarily approach teachers to establish bonds with them, and, in turn, teachers in preschool settings tend to provide emotionally supportive, learning-friendly, and child-cantered classroom environments to facilitate children’s learning abilities and processes. In the present study we discussed how possible to improve learning activities preschool child in schools. Our students used to observe and help preschool children during their experiences. We are considered have a look in this work what could to contribute preschool children learning activities with environmental values.

Keywords: Preschool children, environmental education, plants, animals, values


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