أثر استخدام الخرائط الذهنية الإلكترونية في تنمية وعي أطفال الروضة بجائحة كورونا وبعض مهاراتهم الحياتية

Abstract EN

The present research aimed at identifying the effect of using the electronic mind maps in developing kindergarten children's awareness of corona pandemic and some of their life skills.

the research group consisted of 35 male and female children enrolled in KG2 in one of Assiut educational administration kindergartens.

the research had an experimental design using a one group pre pre post design.

the researcher prepared the electronic mind maps to be used in developing kindergarten children's awareness of corona pandemic and some of their life skills and testing their effect in achieving this aim.

to achieve the aim of the present research, the information related to corona pandemic that kindergarten children need to be aware of and the life skills necessary for them specially during the corona pandemic.

the information and life skills were implied in the electronic mind maps which the researcher prepared.

two electronic scales have been prepared; the first was for measuring kindergarten children's awareness of corona pandemic, and the second was the kindergarten children life skills scale.

the scales have been validated, then they were administered on the research group before conducting the experiment.

then the research group was exposed to the electronic maps prepared for the research purpose for six weeks.

then the same scales were administered on the research group after the experimental treatment.

the research results showed that there were statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the research group in the pre and post testing of each one of the scales in favor of the post testing.

also, the statistical treatments showed a big effect of using the electronic mind maps in developing kindergarten children's awareness of corona pandemic and some of their life skills.