Study of the Features of Development of Ecological Concepts in Children of Preschool Age

This article is devoted to the problem of development of ecological ideas in children of preschool age. The author pays special attention to the diagnosis, results and analysis of the levels of development of environmental concepts in preschool children. The article reveals the features of the development of ecological ideas in preschool children. The results of the study of parents of older preschoolers on their attitude to the relevance of the theme of ecology, environmental problems, environmental protection, environmental management. Identified the relationship between environmental education of children and work of the staff of preschool educational institutions. The greatest impact on the environmental education of preschool children has environmental education of parents, training and retraining of relevant personnel, greening the developing subject environment, greening of various activities, working with other educational institutions, etc.). Our study has led to the conclusion that environmental education of preschool children is currently taking place in an incomplete manner, and environmental protection is a rare phenomenon in the activities of children. Accordingly, in order to increase the level of environmental perceptions of preschool children, we have developed a working program "Nature - our wealth" (5-7 years), the main purpose of which is to educate children of preschool age of the person who is able to understand, protect, love and protect the environment. In addition, the program covers various aspects of environmental education of preschool children. It provides not only environmental education of children of preschool age, but also motivation of development of abilities at them to render the feasible help to the nature. Much attention is paid to joint with adults practical activities of children, observations, experiments, games, excursions, experiments.