Mariya Gorchakova

This article discusses the effectiveness of using the project method in environmental education of senior preschool age children. The purpose of this work is to identify the effectiveness of the development of ideas about the world of trees in senior preschoolers in the process of project activity. The leading methods for studying the problem are theoretical analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature and a pedagogical experiment. The authors present the ideas of senior preschoolers about the world of trees and characterize the project activity as a way of developing ideas about the world of trees among senior preschoolers. They also present the projects "Golden Autumn" and "Trees around the Kindergarten", and evaluate their effectiveness.