抄録
It seems that the importance of having a sense of wonder towards various natural phenomena in children's everyday lives and having opportunities communicating with nature at their infancy is recognized by many early childhood educators, although science education is not identified at present kindergarten in Japan. At kindergarten, it is regarded as important to nurse rich human nature. However, it is rare to take place a practical education with scientific viewpoints. Then, the goal of this research has two points. The first is to analyze the present of the science condition of science education at kindergarten, through investigating about the activities of a kindergarten and many situations involving early childhood education. The second point is to explore the way that should be and views of the science education at kindergarten with deep consideration of an infantile development. The limitation of this research can be count that only two case studies are taken place with different typical education policies, however, I think that this research becomes clear the present conditions of kindergarten. And it also can be shown the possibility of science education at kindergarten. Finally, it is proposed for treating various scientific phenomena for the young children at kindergarten.
