From an early age, children explore everything that surrounds them and they want to get to know and understand the world around them. Curiosity is the main initiator of children's research through which children create different knowledge and experience in their immediate environment and in that way they get to know it. Children's research in addition to allowing them to learn about their environment, it also enables them to create new experiences by exploring which has an impact on their brain development. An important role here is played by the eduacator who regulates the child's environment and thus infulences on children's process of laerning and researching science. This paper will provide a theoretical overview of the contemporary understanding of the term scientific literacy and children's research activities as well as the role of educators in encouraging it. Also with qualitative methogology will be examine how educators see scientific literacy in kindergarten and their role in creating enivronment for it's development. A semi-structured interview was used for research purpose. The sample consists of five educators and the data were obtained thorugh interview consisting of ten questions. The results show that scientific literacy is still a relativity unknown term to educators and it points to the problem of insufficient education on this topic.