Planting gardening is one of the easiest activities to achieve close to nature, whether it is a small seedling or a pot of flowers, a one-meter vegetable garden or a row of vegetable fields. Plantation gardening shows the true colors of nature for children, so that they can discover the mystery of life growth, experience the hardships of labor, and learn various abilities such as management, observation, recording, and expression in the process of planting.
What you need to prepare: buy pots, nutrient soil, spatulas, spraying pots, plant seeds or seedlings
When choosing a flower pot according to the environment of the family, it is recommended to buy resin material, which is easier to move. Nutrient soil can also be selected according to the plants to be planted, and special nutrient soil can avoid pests and do not need to be fertilized in the early stage. Once your child is familiar with the planting process, they can slowly learn to apply fertilizer or even compost it themselves.
The seeds of the plant can choose some vegetables and fruits that children like, such as strawberries, small tomatoes, small radish, etc., which are easy to feed and edible, from germination to harvest, which is an exciting and fulfilling process for children. If the child prefers flowers and plants, he can buy seedlings directly, which is easier to cultivate. In addition, there are now some mushroom mushroom packs that can be sold only by spraying water, and you can harvest mushrooms by spraying the mushroom packs regularly and quantitatively according to the instructions, which is also a good choice for children who are new to planting.
Remember the story of Einstein himself incubating eggs in a chicken nest? Wouldn't it be tempting to tell you that you can now practice egg hatching at home? Observe with the child, after 20 days of hatching, the little life in the egg instantly breaks out of the shell, and feels the freshness and power of life.
What you need to prepare: Buy an incubator and several fertilized eggs
Small household incubator, can place 6~12 fertilized eggs, enough for children to observe and learn. Because the process of incubating eggs requires the right temperature and humidity, usually during the incubation process, it is also necessary to turn the eggs on time to ensure that the little life can be successfully hatched, in nature this task is the chicken mother's, now you can leave it to the child to take care of. Of course, you can also choose an incubator with humidity control, temperature control, and automatic egg turning function.
Fertilized eggs try to choose fresh eggs laid within a week, if the eggs are laid for too long, even fertilized eggs, it is difficult to ensure that they can hatch successfully, so pay special attention.
Plant specimens convey the different personality language of plants and show the characteristic beauty of plants. From a scientific point of view, plant specimens contain a lot of information about a species, such as morphological characteristics, geographical distribution, ecological environment, etc., and from an aesthetic point of view, plant specimens are also used to create thousands of works of art. And the relatively simple and convenient "wax leaf specimen" production method can handle many types of plants!
What you'll need to prepare: Buy some wax paper, Mod Podge glue, photo frames, and pick plant leaves and flowers
Healthy plants are collected for use in specimens. You can choose different parts of the plant according to your needs. Remove imperfect branches, stems, leaves or petals and gently clean with tools such as a small brush.
Flattening + drying is a key part of plant "taxiderization". Lay the plant material between two sheets of wax paper, arrange it, and press them to dehydrate and dry with uniform gravity.
When the plant is basically dehydrated, the "taxidermatization" is completed. At this time, the specimen can be taken out and fixed on the paper with a small amount of Mod Podge glue according to your own ideas.
Only if you have participated in bird watching activities can you truly experience the fun of getting close to the air elves. Bird watching is the best way to exercise children's observation skills. Bird watching first requires finding birds, and finding birds in dense forests requires patience and meticulous observation. When you find a bird, you have to observe the shape of the bird - the color of the feathers, the size of the body, the characteristics of the tail, the characteristics of the beak, in order to identify the bird. Going a little deeper, you can observe the bird's flight attitude, the bird's chirping, the bird's living environment, etc.
What you need to prepare: buy a telescope (Pentax Papilio II recommended), at least a bird manual or guide, voice recorder
Birding beginners can start with general binoculars, one is light weight, the other is easy to operate, children will not lose interest in birdwatching at the beginning because the telescope is too difficult to adjust. After having a certain experience in bird watching, you can buy a more professional binoculars, the objective lens diameter is 30~50 cm, and the multiple is 8~10 times.
In order to accumulate relevant knowledge, you need to purchase at least one bird manual or picture book, "Chinese Bird Field Handbook", "Beijing Bird Guide" and "Beijing Wild Bird Guide" are all good bird watching guides.
It is recommended to buy a voice recorder, because bird watching, not only to see, but also to listen, through the birdsong to identify the bird species, it sounds cool. The outdoor space is empty, and the voice recorder is a good choice for radio.
When it comes to stargazing, the first image that comes to mind may be using an astronomical telescope to look at the starry sky, observing Mercury full of craters and craters, Mars with craters like a dead world, Uranus like a blue-green pearl... But in fact, in ancient times, stargazing only required naked eyes. And today, naked-eye stargazing is still continuing, and it is easier to open an enlightenment of space exploration, understand astronomical knowledge, learn observation skills, stimulate spatial imagination, analytical reasoning ability, and cultivate children's interest in astronomy.
What you need to prepare: Just prepare a basic set of outdoor equipment, such as outdoor clothing, flashlight, insect repellent, water bottle, etc
Naked-eye stargazing should first choose a good observation point, away from the interference of smog, lights, tall buildings, trees, and maintain an open view. Once an observation point is found, the eye is given more than half an hour to adjust to the darkness, a process astronomers call "dark adaptation." This process is absolutely not allowed to look at the phone again!
After adjusting to the darkness, the eye will notice that the sky is covered with stars that can combine to form a pattern, there are 88 constellations in the sky, but few constellations look like the people, animals or objects they represent. It takes a lot of imagination to identify!
If you stay at the observation point long enough, you will find that the low stars in the east will get higher and higher in the sky, while the low stars in the west will get lower and lower, and may even disappear altogether. That's because when the Earth spins, the stars seem to cross the sky.
See! Good things can be free!
✎ Written by Wang Jing & Lin Ran
Typesetting ✎ Liu Yang
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