The Development of Science Process Skills and Content Knowledge with Inquiry Boxes in Early Childhood Education

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Argitaratua izan da:CEPS Journal : Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal vol. 15, no. 2 (2025), p. 249-280
Egile nagusia: Golob, Nika
Beste egile batzuk: Ungar, Vanja
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University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education
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100 1 |a Golob, Nika  |u ı ·Corresponding Author. Faculty of Education, University of Maribor, Slovenia; nika.golob@um.si. 
245 1 |a The Development of Science Process Skills and Content Knowledge with Inquiry Boxes in Early Childhood Education 
260 |b University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education  |c 2025 
513 |a Journal Article 
520 3 |a This paper aims to investigate the systematic use of an inquiry-based learning approach in science by using inquiry boxes for preschool children. We prepared four thematic inquiry boxes for the areas of magnetism and buoyancy, separation of substances, weighing objects, and the investigation of substances. The research sample consisted of twenty children aged four to five years. Ten children from the experimental group explored the material using the photo-type instructions on the instructional cards over a period of four weeks. Comparative test results for the control group children show that the experimental group children progressed both in content knowledge and in better-developed science process skills. We find that children develop autonomy in science process skills such as classifying, ordering, and weighing through prepared and guided inquiry with the help of the inquiry boxes. In doing so, children show increasing autonomy within each set of tasks that develop the chosen science process skill. In this manner, science practices with inquiry boxes allow children to build on science content knowledge. They can apply the skills they have learned through inquiry boxes to new knowledge instead of teaching science processes as isolated skills. This approach of individually guided inquiry by children using thematic inquiry boxes is therefore recommended as a proven didactic tool for developing science process skills and content knowledge. «> Namen clanka je raziskati sistemati no uporabo raziskovalnega ucenja у naravoslovju z uporabo raziskovalnih skatel za predsolske otroke. Pripravili smo §tiri tematske raziskovalne $katle s podrocij magnetizma in vzgona, locevanja snovi, tehtanja predmetov in preucevanja snovi. Raziskovalni vzorec je predstavljal dvajset otrok, starih od 4 do 5 let. Deset otrok iz eksperimentalne skupine je у stirih tednih raziskovalo material iz raziskovalnih skatel s pomocjo slikovno-fotografskih navodil na delovnih karticah. Rezultati primerjalnih testov za otroke iz kontrolne skupine kazZejo, da so otroci iz eksperimentalne skupine napredovali у vsebinskem znanju in tudi v bolje razvitih spretnostih naravoslovnih postopkov. Ugotavljamo, da otroci s pomocjo pripravljenega in vodenega raziskovanja z raziskovalnimi skatlami razvijajo samostojnost pri spretnostih naravoslovnih postopkov, kot so: razvr&Canje, urejanje in tehtanje. Pri tem otroci kazejo vedno vecjo samostojnost у vsakem sklopu nalog. Naravoslovna dejavnost z raziskovalnimi skatlami otrokom omogota nadgradnjo znanja naravoslovnih vsebin. Spretnosti, ki so se jih naucili s pomocjo raziskovalnih $katel, lahko uporabijo kot novo znanje, na novem primeru, namesto da bi naravoslovne postopke urili kot izolirane spretnosti. Pristop individualno vodenega raziskovanja otrok z uporabo tematskih raziskovalnih skatel je tako priporocljivo in preizkuseno didaktiéno orodje za razvijanje spretnosti naravoslovnih postopkov in vsebinskega znanja. 
653 |a Teaching 
653 |a Students 
653 |a Scientists 
653 |a Preschool children 
653 |a Inquiry method 
653 |a Early childhood education 
653 |a Teachers 
653 |a Skills 
653 |a Kindergarten 
653 |a Science education 
653 |a Knowledge 
653 |a Preschool education 
653 |a Children & youth 
653 |a Learning 
653 |a Education 
653 |a Control Groups 
653 |a Experimental Groups 
653 |a Active Learning 
653 |a Prior Learning 
653 |a Educational Methods 
653 |a Process Education 
653 |a Meta Analysis 
653 |a Young Children 
653 |a Comparative Testing 
653 |a Evidence 
653 |a Child Development 
653 |a Elementary School Students 
653 |a Elementary Schools 
653 |a Science Instruction 
653 |a Science Experiments 
653 |a Elementary Secondary Education 
653 |a Problem Solving 
653 |a Hypothesis Testing 
653 |a Inquiry 
653 |a Educational Strategies 
700 1 |a Ungar, Vanja  |u Blaze in Nezica Kindergarten/Vrtec Blaze in NeZica, Slovenska Bistrica, Slovenia. 
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