《幼儿园工作规程》明确提出了科学教育的目标:萌发幼儿爱科学的情感,丰富幼儿对自然和社会的粗浅知识,培养幼儿对自然与社会的兴趣和求知欲,开发幼儿的智力,形成幼儿对人对事物的正确态度等。科学教育,就是要正确引导幼儿从小了解科学的概念、科学的技能以及科学的知识结构。因此,对幼儿进行科学兴趣的培养,获得有关周围物质世界的感性认识和经验的过程,既是时代的要求,也是社会的需要。实践已经证明,科学能够大大拓展幼儿 Kindergarten Rules of Procedure clearly set forth the goal of science education: to nurture children’s love of science, to enrich young children’s superficial knowledge of nature and society, to develop young children’s interest in nature and society, to develop their intelligence and to develop a People’s right attitude to things. Science education is to correctly guide young children to understand the concept of science, scientific skills and scientific knowledge structure. Therefore, it is not only the requirements of the times but also the needs of the society that the process of raising children’s interest in science and obtaining perceptual knowledge and experience about the surrounding material world. Practice has proved that science can greatly expand children