Early-childhood-education children think, act and talk about air and water behavior

Abstract

In this paper we propose the construction of scientific models by Early Childhood Education students. Two activities are presented whose purpose is to help them to build air and water models, thus initiating the development of systemic thinking. The children, based on the observations and through the questions asked, try to explain the properties and characteristics of the environment that surrounds them. In spite of the initial expectations, working in this way it has been achieved the construction of partial models of the phenomena that they observe from the verification of some of their first hypotheses. In short, it can be affirmed that from these first educational stages it is possible to work the ideas of the science throughout the guided inquiry.