Kemahiran Proses Sains Dalam kalangan Kanak-Kanak Prasekolah Menerusi Pendekatan Projek
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11113/sh.v11n1.1386Keywords:
Science process skills, project approach, early childhood education, environment.Abstract
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The mastery of science subjects among students in Malaysia is still at an incredible level, this has been proven as a result of the results in Mathematics and Science subjects through the study of Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2015 where even though the country's results are increasing compared to 2011 but ranking of Malaysian students is still lagging among Southeast Asian countries. Hence, this study is conducted for the purpose of exploring the skills of the science process through project activities at the early stage of early childhood education. In addition, this study was conducted in a qualitative study using a holistic case study design involving Compact Fertilizer Case, and Chocolate Gallery on a kindergarten in the state of Perak. The participants involved in this study were two focus groups consisting of 20 children and two educators. In fact, the involvement of participants in this study is through a framework known as Framework for Responsive Participatory Research Method. The survey data is obtained through triangulation results from unstructured interviews, observations and documents. Overall, the findings show that the most dominant science process skills dominated by the children are the observation skills followed by inference and predicting. In addition, the findings show that children also achieve the integrated science skills while conducting investigations among them is to build hypotheses and experiments. Therefore, project activity is an alternative approach in imposing a child's mind towards scientific thinking by 2050.
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