과학연극활동이 유아의 과학적 탐구능력 및 창의성에 미치는 영향

초록

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of science drama activities on young children's scientific inquiry abilities and creativity. The subjects were 36 five-year-old young children in B kindergarten located in S city. The subjects were divided into an experiment group of 18 and a comparison group of 18. The experimental group was taught by the early childhood science drama activities utilizing picture books for 6 weeks. The checking tool used the "scientific inquiry ability test" produced by Lee Kyung Min(2000) based on Martin(1997)'s scientific inquiry ability evaluation scale. and Creativity inspection based on the ‘Torrance Tests of Creative Torrence(ttct)’ developed by Torrance(1990)‘s ‘inspection of Korean version TTCT (figure)’ was used. The study findings are as follows: First, pre- and post-test results indicated that the scientific drama activities had a positive influence on improving young children's scientific inquiry abilities such as prediction, observation, classification and communication. Second, creativities including fluency, originality, sophistication and hasty termination resistance are improved in comparison with the contrast group activities. This study's findings show that the scientific drama activities are educational values as effective activities to improve young children's scientific inquiry abilities and creativity. This study is expected to provide basic data for the scientific drama activities education in early childhood education as a new attempt to improve the teaching and learning methods of 5-year-old children.

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