OUTCOMES OF CO-CURRICULUM ACTIVITIES WITH SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS ON “FOOD AND NUTRIENT” TO IMPROVE BASIC SCIENTIFIC SKILLS OF EARLY CHIHOOD CHILDREN

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) To study the basic scientific skills of early childhood children during organizing co-curriculum activities with science experiments on "Food and Nutrient", 2) To compare the basic scientific skills of early childhood children before and after organizing co-curriculum activities with science experiments, 3) To compare the basic scientific skills of early childhood children after organizing co-curriculum activities with science experiments with the criteria of 70%, and 4) To study the satisfaction of early childhood children towards the science experiment activities. The research sample were 20 kindergarten 3 students in Chumchonwatkhaolampa School in 2023 academic year. The research tools consisted of co-curriculum activity plans with science experiments on "Food and Nutrient", a basic scientific skill test, an early childhood children's a satisfaction assessment form. The statistics used in the research were: Percentage, Mean, Standard deviation, Wicoxon test and Binomial test. The research results found that: 1) This study the basic scientific skills of early children during organizing co-curriculum activities with science experiments in overall tended to increase, 2) This study the basic scientific skills of early childhood children were higher than before organizing co-curriculum activities with the statistically significant at .05 level, 3) This study the basic scientific skills of early childhood children after organizing co-curriculum activities were higher than the criteria of 70% with the statistically significant at .01 level, and 4) This study the satisfaction of early childhood children towards the organization of science experiment activities in overall wasl at a high level.