Experimental Pool
- It is a project for curious children who want to discover and explore the world around them.
Experiments supported children's creativity and aroused children's interest in new things. Children are naturally curious and found answers to their questions through research and experimentation. By experimenting with children, we developed positive attitudes towards science and technology and expanded their scientific knowledge from a perspective. We enabled children to develop relationships between causes and effects. During the experiments, we communicated a lot with the children and encouraged them to think logically and create hypotheses.
The aim of the project was to bring children closer to the life and work of world-renowned scientists and discoverers, to arouse interest in science and to do experiments in a fun way and through play, and to understand the relationships between cause and effect. Observational skills, technical thinking, critical thinking, science literacy, communication, creativity, fine motor skills, teamwork developed, computative skills and kids worked with various web 2 tools.
Each month, the children met a world scientist, performed two experiments, and played an online game created with web tools.2 that was related to the theme of the moon. Experiments for children was always something that can conjure astonishment, curiosity, enthusiasm, joy on their faces. They were something special for the children, something they didn't do every day, they were impatiently waiting for the project activity, where we "conjured" something new again. The children performed and observed simple experiments that brought them closer to the mysterious world of science.
During the project, the children participated in webinars prepared by teachers from the project. We worked on the experiments independently, but also together with project partners and created many common tasks and products. At the end of the project, we participated together in STEM Discovery Campaign 2021 with the activity Catapult and we completed the project with a joint webinar, where we presented the manufactured catapults.
The project brought the children an interesting insight into science, introduced them to the various physical and chemical phenomena that take place around them, and which they could realistically try and observe.
The project involved children with autism from the Myšky class and children from the common class ,,Mravčeky" from the Kindergarten Iľjušinova, Bratislava, Slovakia and children from Kindergartens and primary schools in Turkey, Croatia and Romania.
The project was extremely beneficial for children with Autism, as these children have very good technical thinking and attention to detail. They worked very pedantically on each experiment, their critical and technical thinking developed, their strengths were supported and at the same time the project was of emotional and social significance to them. They were very nicely involved in activities with ordinary children, where the project supported their curiosity, ability to try new things and think creatively.
It was great and very nice project for us.
Thank you all partners of project for fruiful and productive collaboration, especialy to Havva for her leadership, help and support.
Michaela Rumanková
Kindergarten Iľjušinova, Bratislava, Slovakia
Special Education Teacher
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