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The paper presents the results of the implementation of a preschool school initiative in Chile known as Your Scientific Skills in Science (TCC) Explora Conicyt and analyzes the influence of cooperative relationships between directors, preschool teachers and preschool teaching assistants on the development of scientific skills in students bet-ween four and six years of age A mixed methodology was applied. Thirty-seven classroom observations were con-ducted and analyzed using the constant comparative method. Ten categories of coo-peration emerged and were used to construct a questionnaire for these three educa-tional players. The questionnaire was applied at ninety-seven municipal and private schools in the regions of Valparaíso, La Araucanía, Los Lagos, Rivers and Metropoli- tana. The results show a positive correlation between cooperation among educators and scientific learning on the part of students [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]