فعالية برنامج قائم على استخدام استراتيجية المحطات التعليمية في تنمية مفاهيم الفضاء وعلوم الأرض لدى طفل الروضة
The current research aims to identify the effectiveness of using educational stations strategy in developing the concepts of space and earth sciences among kindergarten children. The research included a checklist of space and earth sciences’ concepts suitable for kindergarten children, a teacher’s guide for the pictorial activities to develop space and earth sciences’ concepts for kindergarten children using the educational station strategy, and a pictorial test to measure the concepts of space and earth sciences of kindergarten children. The research sample consisted of 2nd level of kindergarten children whose ages range from 5-6 years. The current research used the quasi - experimental design. The research concluded the following results: the presence of the statistically significant impact at the level 0.01 for the development of space and earth sciences’ concepts in the posttest is a difference resulted from the use of the educational stations strategy. In the light of the research, it recommends the necessity of using the educational station strategy in developing kindergarten’s activities and the necessity of presenting training courses for teachers as well as to train them to employ the strategy in various activities. It also recommends the inclusion of the educational station strategy in the teacher’s guide in order to diversify the learning strategies. It ends with the necessity of including the concepts of space and earth sciences in the content of the activities provided to kindergarten children. (Published abstract)