Organizing Activities to Enhance the Pumpkin Project Experience to Promote Critical Thinking Skills for Early Childhood

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to study the results of the pumpkin project experience enhancement activities; and 2) to compare the analytical thinking skills before and after the pumpkin project experience enhancement activities. The target group used in the study was early childhood, kindergarten year 3, age 5 - 6 years, semester 2, academic year 2020, Ban Khao Cha-ngok School obtained by selecting a specific. The research instruments were 20 plans for the pumpkin project experience enhancement activities, 4 sets of manual for organizing the pumpkin project experience activities, 3 sets of analytical thinking skills test of preschool children with 0.72 confidence. This research is an experimental research with a one group pretest – posttest design. Data analysis using mean scores standard deviation and the difference test using percentage values. The research results were found as follows;

            1) The overall analytical thinking skills for early childhood children before the pumpkin project experience activities was 61.50% (= 14.76) and after the pumpkin project experience activities were 95.43% ( =22.90). 2) The results of the comparison of the analytical thinking skills before and after the pumpkin project experience activities were found that the children developed the thinking skills after the activities were higher than before the activities.