Direct contact with nature is a necessary cause for a child's physical and mental health development, and a large number of studies have shown the relationship between children's rupture with nature and the rise of obesity, attention deficit, depression, etc.
How to rescue our children from test-taking education and Internet entertainment to contact the stars and the sea, birds and flowers? We parents also need a little help and skills, this set of comic book science picture books adapted from the classic book "Insects" "Insects" can help us supplement the lesson of nature education for our children!
As long as you use this set of books well, you can break the stereotype of insects with your children, cultivate the spirit of exploration, and inspire careful observation.
1. Characteristics of insects, differences in insects
In the book "Fabre Teacher's Insect Classroom 1 - The Instinct to Recognize Insects", a set of three volumes, "Fabre Teacher's Insect Classroom 1 - The Instinct to Know Insects", provides a vivid and interesting introduction to many common insects in life and culture. The book uses the comic image of the French entomologist Professor Jean Henri Fabre, author of the classic book "Insects", to lead young readers to study and excavate the originally neglected "worm world".
For example, we often call "shell lang", that is, the scarab that was regarded by the Egyptian pharaoh as the embodiment of the sun god, and its larvae would be wrapped in a pear-shaped dung ball when summer came, and the front legs crossed on the chest looked like a mummy lying in a coffin; There is also why the cicadas in the trees in the summer can make a huge roar with their small bodies, and how the magical life of the cicadas has been; Or the butterfly that eats cabbage, the bean elephant beetle that grows in coarse grains such as barley kidney beans... The book uses 1:1 cartoons to show the characteristics, habits and reproduction and measurement process of insects in their environment and appearance, and children will read it with fun and relish, and will definitely not feel bored and obscure.
After reading "Fabre's Insect Classroom", the next time they encounter various insects, children will already look at and describe them with scientific observation, no longer shouting and expressing fear, nor will they be completely uninterested in thinking only about video games.
2. The knowledge of the cartoon is connected!
From the perspective of maximizing the absorption of knowledge, in addition to recognizing insects, it is actually more important to learn some knowledge and ways of thinking from scientific observation. In "Fabre's Insect Classroom 2 - Interesting Insect Experiments", it perfectly shows children a series of knowledge chains around an insect topic, such as telling the appearance, nature, male and female differences, egg laying characteristics, unique survival skills and natural enemies of larvae in observation experiments, which can help children cultivate divergent thinking and logical thinking ability.
And the best part! It also has done knowledge linkage with many popular cartoons! For example, in the cartoon "Black Cat Sheriff", there is an episode in which the sheriff receives a report and finds that the brave boy who helped catch the thief, the mantis, has been murdered, and after investigation, it is found that the murderer is his wife mantis girl; Because the habit of the praying mantis family is that pregnant females need to eat male mates to get the nutrition to produce offspring... In "Fabre's Insect Classroom", a more scientific and detailed explanation was made with observation experiments: the nature of the praying mantis is to deter opponents, the professor used thyme to raise praying mantises for observation experiments, and found that the praying mantis will naturally open its wings and deter the opponent for cats, dogs and other animals that are N times larger than themselves, which is completely in line with the brave character of the mantis boys in the cartoon who dare to catch thieves; In addition, the female mantis is also much larger than the male mantis, which also provides convenience and proof that females need to kill males to breed offspring.
3. Super useful! Animal biomimicry
Since the knowledge learned has been learned and the method of observation and thinking has been learned, the application of knowledge is also an important part. In Fabre's Insect Classroom 3 – Insect Survival Tricks, there are plenty of highlights to explore.
What does the presence of insects mean for nature and humans? This question guides children's thinking in the "Fabre Teacher's Insect Classroom" set of books, in this set of three books, some insects have existed since ancient times, and they are covered with many cultural legends; There are also many common insects in life, some of them are pests, some are beneficial insects, some are close relatives, some are varieties produced by hybridization, some are dressed up in the world, and some are stealing crops and becoming food for other creatures... Every insect seems to be silently playing its role, if there is a contribution to human beings, insect biomimicry must be counted as one! For example, the invention of the fly compound eye and the camera: the fly compound eye observes the object more carefully and comprehensively than humans, and when the target is seen, the fly can immediately move. So humans use it bionically, and the "fly-eye" aerial camera invented according to the principle of fly compound eye can take more than 1,000 high-definition photos at a time. Astronomy also has "fly-eye" optical instruments that detect clusters of light from the air on moonless nights.
Another example is the butterfly wing color changes according to the refraction of light and anti-counterfeiting banknotes, there are many small pits on the butterfly wings, when the sun shines on the butterfly wings, due to the refraction of light, the butterfly seen by the human eye is green. So humans have set many small pits on paper money or credit cards for their bionic use, so that no matter how realistic the counterfeit money is, it is difficult to escape the "magic eye" of optical equipment.
There are also similar warning signs to bumblebees that can be seen everywhere on the street, which are camouflage techniques learned by humans and physiological camouflage masters such as dead leaf butterflies and stick insects, which are the results of human research in insect research.
Small insects, but also great learning; As long as they master the scientific way of observation and thinking, children can benefit greatly from life. A set of good books that can lead children to think and cultivate children's thinking is more meaningful than thousands of teaching and training classes, and "Teacher Fabre's Insect Classroom" is really a rare popular science book!