4계절 관상용 옥상정원을 활용한 원예활동이 유아의 창의적 사고력에 미치는 영향

Effects of Horticultural Activities Program Focusing on Four-season Ornamental Rooftop Garden to be Released on Preschoolers’ Creative Thinking

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a horticultural activity program focused on four-season ornamental rooftop garden on both mental development and intelligence quotient of preschoolers. Forty seven preschoolers were participated in this experiment. Experimental group of 26 members were subjected to do the horticultural activity program and 21 members of the control group were not applied with the program. This study was performed once a week for 15 times from May 2013 to September 2013. As a result, mental development of both experimental and control groups were significantly improved (P=0.023, P=0.016) after the horticultural activity program, however improvement of the experimental group was higher than that of the control group. Accordingly, though mental development of both groups was improved as preschoolers grow, horticultural activity program was turned out to be effective in mental development of preschoolers. The intelligence quotient was also improved in both groups, but it was not statistically significant. Accordingly, we speculated that 15 weeks of research duration was not enough to give significant differences in thinking ability. In this study, we concluded that applying horticultural activity program using four-season ornamental rooftop garden to preschoolers was turned out to be effective for improving the mental development of them. Further more various horticultural programs using four-season ornamental rooftop gardens should be developed.