Keyword: «engino»

The urgency of the problem is conditioned by the existing need to expand the content of pre-school education, the development of methodological support for the organization of preschoolers’ constructing process with the use of the new generation of building kits. A number of contradictions have developed in modern science and educational practice: between recognition by psychological and pedagogical science the fact that children of preschool age can master skills for constructive activities with elements of robotics and the absence of a scientifically based methodology for realizing this process in the system of preschool education; between the significant potential of a new generation of building kits for realization of the process of constructive skills forming in children of senior preschool age and insufficiently developed methodological support of this process in practice of modern pre-school education. At the same time, the Federal Educational Standard of preschool education defines constructing from various materials as one of the most important types of children's activities. The article presents the methodological foundations for the organization of constructing and robotics at a pre-school educational organization. Methodological foundations constitute a set of methodological approaches: system-activity, integrative and situational ones. The system-activity approach determines the structure of the process of formation of constructing skills in preschool children and ensures the sequence of mastering them. The integrative approach allows to choose the effective means, forms and methods of educational activity, grouped by thematic principle; integrate different types of children's activities. The situational approach promotes consideration of preschool children’s constructing skills formation process in the logic of problem training technology, modelling and solving problem situations. The article is practice-oriented. It presents educational activities in constructing with elements of robotics, organized by students of the Surgut State Pedagogical University during their pedagogical practice. The method of teaching construction with the use of new generation of LEGO, Polydron, Engino Education and Engino Discovering Stem building kits in the classroom and in free children activities is substantiated. The materials of the article may be used by teachers of preschool educational organizations both in classrooms and in regime moments; by bachelors and masters of pedagogy while studying methods of teaching preschoolers constructing and robotics; by academic staff of pedagogical universities for presentation this method to students; by teachers of additional professional education organizations in the framework of the preparation for advanced training courses in the presented field of educational activity.