Just reading the title of this book is very eager to buy, why only write half of it? Science quizzes are originally a more serious matter, how can they still be played? In order to find out the truth, I specially purchased this set of books.
There are four books in this series, namely "Little Experiments in Life", "Our Body", "Defending the Earth", and "Earth and Space". Each book can be shown to children individually, a very thin large open book, not much text, pictures and games, very suitable for children.
1 Little experiments in life
When I went to school, whether it was physics, chemistry or biology, I paid great attention to experiments, because only what has been verified is the truth, and the results of personal experiments are easier to remember. This book is a good exercise for children's hands-on ability, which not only exercises hand-eye coordination, but also has the development of fine motors. Let me illustrate with a few examples.
A use of cotton swabs to spell the human bone structure, this experiment not only exercises the child's observation ability, reading ability, but also the ability to use small items in life, the appearance of using cotton swabs to put together bones is very similar, because the bones are also thinner in the middle and thicker at both ends. Moreover, the bones I have fought together are not only interesting, but also exercise hands-on ability, and also increase some memory of bone knowledge.
B: Many people eat cereal for breakfast, but, did you know? Cereal contains iron, so is the law that magnets we learned before attract iron work? We can try it, of course, the result is that you can't suck up the cereal, so what's the reason? It turns out that cereal also has gravity, and this suction force is greater than gravity, the cereal will be sucked up, so we improved the experiment and crushed the cereal into powder, is this experiment successful? You just try it and you'll know, don't peek at the answer ha.
C finally saw a familiar picture, the famous friction experiment, the same as the junior high school physics class I remembered. However, if you do a force analysis for the car, and then tell it to the child, will the child without abstract logical thinking ability accept it? What about demonstrating experiments visually? In life, you will often encounter, the closest thing to a child is to play a slide, if your clothes are dry, then it will be completed relatively quickly, but if your clothes are wet, then it will be completed more slowly. If you take a closer look, you will understand. So how about making one of these experiments yourself? The child is not only impressed, but also increases the hands-on ability, and hand-eye coordination is also very good for brain development.
2 Our body
After introducing the small experiments in our lives, it is easier for children to pay attention to themselves. Because from 18 months, self-awareness germinates, more than just the attention to their own body, to their own property rights and other concerns are also very terrible, a word does not agree to cry, so do not take his things without the consent of the child.
A The word we often hear is feeling, so what do we feel about ourselves? In fact, there are five senses, namely: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. And games about feelings can be played everywhere, such as taking a car to a place and playing with children. Do you come and see if there is anything white around? This game was also played in Little Zhu Peiqi, that is, everyone chooses a color, observes what color the next car encounters is, and wins if they encounter the color they choose. Also, you can ask your child to listen carefully to several sounds on the road. If you are at home or in a restaurant, you can let your child use smell and taste to distinguish between sweet and sour, bitter and salty, and you can also use touch to identify whether it is a plate or a spoon game. These little games that can be played anywhere not only increase the joy of life, but also exercise the child's feelings.
B We are different from each other, just like we Asians, we are yellow-skinned, black-eyed, while Europeans are mostly white-skinned and blue-eyed, which means that we are different, this is the difference. Just like sometimes there will be a foreign teacher in class, his skin color, hair, and eye color may be different from ours. My daughter is very good here, as long as the foreign teacher has affinity, any color is accepted. With the difference, the laboratory looks for differences, just like the one in the strongest brain, two similar pictures, need good observation, in order to find different places, that is, differences. My advice is not to draw it with a pencil for the first time, and point it with your left and right hands, so that the game can be played again after a while, depending on how long your child will forget the result of the game.
C See familiar scenes, pulleys, physics problems that are almost mandatory for every exam. Let children experience reasoning and pulling separately, and experience it with feelings, such memories will almost never be forgotten for a lifetime. And what about pulleys? Here is mainly about fixing the pulley, changing the direction of force in time, the experiment is very simple and intuitive. A generation of flour, respectively compared to lifting up and using the door handle as a pulley to change the direction of force, it is clear that the second type is more labor-saving. Speaking with experiments is always more convincing and memorable than instilling with theory.
3. Defend the planet
Our earth is our home, so there are also many small animals. Imagine if you shaved off the tiger's hair, wouldn't it be a bit like a lioness? The answer, of course, is no, because the stripes of the tiger are also on the skin! Guess if you race against that big hippopotamus, who will win? Can pigs see white clouds in the sky? If you can lick your elbow, I'll give you a chance to win 5 million, tempting, right?
A Find out the small animals you know, this game can call the child's existing cognition, stimulate the child's curiosity about unknown animals, and know such animals by consulting relevant information, the memory will be very deep. In the UK alone, there are more than 25,000 small animals. They live in nature, so we must love nature and our environment.
B Nature's Art This chapter allows you to collect a variety of objects, including: stones, leaves, branches, grass, seeds, nuts, sticks, feathers, etc., and then stitch them together into beautiful paintings, this work can be done at home or outdoors, and then you can take a group photo to commemorate the year. Because this is a gift from nature, it can also cultivate children's pursuit of beauty well.
C Waste recycling is better understood, there are currently garbage sorting and recycling in the community, and working with children to sort garbage and reuse the garbage that can be recycled, because they are just misplaced resources. Waste paper can be transported back to the paper mill, treated harmlessly, returned to people's tables, and reused, which also inhibits the indiscriminate felling of trees and protects Mother Earth. Glass products are also remade into bottles or jars, as well as metal. It's just that plastic products are more difficult to degrade, for recycling that can be recycled, those that cannot be degraded and recycled are used less or even not used, and plastic bags in supermarkets are basically degradable materials.
4 Earth and Space
The Earth we live on is one of the eight planets in the solar system. (I was a kid with the Nine Planets, and Pluto was removed from the list when it was classified as a dwarf planet in 2006, so flipping through previous sources there will be nine planets.) ）
The Solar System is a star system, which is a celestial system made up of various types of planets around which stars orbit.
From the picture in the book, it is easy to find the location of the earth, you can also fill in the words you already know through pinyin, not only can you silently write words, but also remember the location of the eight major galaxies. It doesn't matter if it's not easy to remember, the book gives a mantra, you can remember the eight planets starting from the sun according to the mantra, and the mantra is in the picture ha.
B The sun is a star, so is it divided into many layers like the earth? What does each layer do? Is the hottest place the center or the edge? When reading this part, you can compare the layering of the earth, find the same and different, increase the interest, and exercise the mathematical idea of comparison. If you read more, you will know a lot of characters, so the game session is related to writing Chinese characters in pinyin, see if you can write a manzi? Come on ha.
C Moon , this satellite of the Earth, whether mythology or poetry, appears most often in our traditional culture, so does it shine? What kind of moon phases will there be? What kind of impact will changes in the phases of the moon have on the Earth? On the moon, are we all high jumpers? This part also has calculation problems, which need to be practiced by children who have learned multiplication and division.
After reading this set of books, I slowly understood that the way of asking questions can promote thinking, instead of instilling knowledge into children's brains, it is better to give topics and let children explore by themselves, which not only cultivates children's hands-on ability, but also stimulates children's curiosity and desire to explore. The book has many words and few words, and the recommendation in the book is 5-9 years old, but in fact, the parent-child reading foundation can be seen from the age of 3, and some calculation problems and pinyin literacy classes can be left out first. Let's keep curious and make up for the other half with the child, right?