The purpose of this study was to contribute with increased knowledge of younger children 's questions when participating in activities with chemistry as content. The study is based on a phenomenographic perspective, which can be described as that the children's questions represent what they experience about the current topic and its content, to make slime. The method of data collection was observation during the chemistry-related activity; to make slime. The ob-servations were made on two occasions and combined four children, aged one to three years, and with two educators participated, however, an educator at each performance. The result shows that the children ask questions and that the questions are directed towards the content of the activity, which is to make slime. It also shows that there is interest from the children to know more and the desire to actively participate. The result also shows that the questions have a certain increase and that the focus of the questions is addressed in the second observation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kau-71298 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Sjödin, Marika |
| Publisher | Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för pedagogiska studier (from 2013) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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