ORGANIZING STEM-ORIENTED OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY ACTIVITIES AIMED TO DEVELOP ENGINEERING THINKING FOR PRESCHOOLERS

Abstract

The goal of science explains the natural world, and the goal of engineering solve problems to meet human needs and wants. Kindergarten is an ideal period to offer age-appropriate technical challenges to develop cognitive, social, motor, and language skills. Science discovery activities create many opportunities for thinking development, including engineering thinking, for children in the process a child explores everything around them. By the method of document research and experiment, the article presents the 5 - 6 year-old preschoolers’ engineering thinking and the research results of organizing STEM-oriented of scientific discovery activities aimed to develop engineering thinking for preschoolers.