Curusiar-Arte" Un Espacio Para Descubrir, Explorar y Aprender".

Abstract

The Science Center in early childhood education is consolidated as a fundamental space for the comprehensive development of children, offering meaningful opportunities for exploration, research, and experimentation. This carefully designed environment allows children to interact directly with their surroundings, awakening their natural curiosity and strengthening essential cognitive skills such as critical thinking, logical reasoning, creativity, and understanding of the world around them. Cabrera (2021) stated that: Young children have a natural curiosity about the world around them. Providing them with opportunities to research, experiment, and explore scientific phenomena in meaningful contexts promotes critical thinking, problem-solving, and understanding of the environment from an early age. Therefore, pedagogical proposals focused on active inquiry and the manipulation of materials will foster practical and sensorial experiences that favor the construction of knowledge, allowing children to observe, formulate hypotheses, test, compare results and reflect on their findings, thus developing scientific skills from an early age. This space also promotes autonomy by providing opportunities to make decisions, explore freely and establish cause-effect relationships in a safe, stimulating environment adapted to their interests. In short, the implementation of the Science Center as an educational strategy recognizes and values ​​the innate investigative potential of childhood, contributing comprehensively to the intellectual, emotional, social and communicative development of children, in line with contemporary approaches that highlight active learning as the basis for the development of scientific thinking from early childhood.infancia (Froebel, citado en Portalatín, 2020; National Research Council, 2007; Snow, 2010).