Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to study the effects of the parent education activities on science process skills of preschool children. Theiry parentes of five-to-six years old children were selected by multi-stage sampling. 4 steps of the parent education activities were : one-day workshop, home-based practices according to the constructed packages, individual supervision, and summary and evaluation meeting. The data were gathered and analyzed by means of t-test. The findings indicated that after the experiment, the knowledge of the parents in the experimental group was higher significantly (p<.0005), and was also significantly higher than that of the control group at the .0025 level. Similarly, the knowledge of children whose parents joined the provided activities was higher significantly (p<.0005) and was also significantly higher than that of the control group at the .025 level.