Research activity - algorithm and structure

In the course of reforming the education system, much attention is now being paid to the implementation of the activity approach. The bottom line is that the child is a full-fledged, active participant in the educational and educational process.

When the preschooler is acquainted with the world around him, research activity and activity are at the forefront. Curiosity and desire for knowledge are placed at the center of the implementation of pre-school education programs. In conditions of a huge information flow, availability of all kinds of resources and ease of finding a solution to a problem, the child must want to learn new things.

Cognitive-research activity of preschool children is the natural state of children. Remember yourself in childhood - perhaps someone parsed the parent's watch, trying to understand the essence of the mechanism. A small researcher with a screwdriver in his hands is a regular and normal phenomenon for children of both school and kindergarten age.

Research activity creates conditions for mental development, then smoothly transforming into self-development. An experienced teacher knows and understands that one should not interfere with this process, it is enough just to direct it in the right direction.

Many domestic psychologists tend to believe that research is the highest form of development of cognitive activity, when a child does not chaotically try to understand what is arranged, but purposefully, trying to plan the result, goes to the goal he has set.

The structure of the search activity is as follows:

- transferred from an adult or put forward by the children themselves, a problem that requires a solution;

- An analysis of the conditions that contribute to the solution of the task (this operation can be performed by children both independently and with the help of an adult);

- the hypothesis about the origin of the problem and the ways to solve it;

- choice of verification methods and directly verification of the ways of solving the problem;

- conclusions, results, analysis;

- new tasks and their discussion.

The research activity is carried out according to the following algorithm:

- formulation of the problem;

- definition of the topic, setting goals and objectives;

- promotion of the hypothesis;

- development of an action plan;

- direct carrying out of experience for acknowledgment or refutation of the put forward hypothesis;

- analysis of implemented activities, conclusions, further development of ways to solve the problem.

The research activity of schoolchildren and preschoolers, however, like all people, presupposes an action according to the algorithm described above.

As for interests and topics for research, older preschoolers prefer experiments in which cause-effect relationships are viewed. So, in the form of play (and the leading activity at this age is the game), thinking develops. The main task of an adult is to try to interest the child with an unusual experience or effect, to give an opportunity to conduct an experiment to the preschooler himself.