Qianjiang Evening News Hourly News reporter Huang Ying
"There are not only poems and distant places in life, but also cherish the beauty in front of you." On the way to visit The Maple Ridge Town Center Primary School in Chun'an, Lao Jiang, a volunteer teacher in Zhejiang Shanye, said such a sentence, which made the reporters and volunteers in the same car praise one after another.
Qianjiang Evening News and Alibaba Daily Positive Energy jointly launched the "Yiqi Over the Mid-Autumn Festival" public welfare activity, wanting to send a different Mid-Autumn Festival to the children of Maple Ridge Town Center Primary School, that is, they want to interpret and enrich the meaning of "home" from the three dimensions of "home, hometown and home country".
The event is also one of the series of activities of "Everyone in Zhejiang" on the second anniversary of the revision of the hourly news client, and we hope to call on more readers to do public welfare together.
After passing the collection and the recommendation of the students' parents, we invited two volunteer teams of "Zhejiang Shanye" and "Play to the Cloud".
Since around 2012, the Play to the Cloud Club has been taking children to play with 3D printing, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, drone programming and control and other science and technology.
The teachers said that they plan to take stock of the existing projects, see what machinery and equipment can be packaged and taken to Maple Ridge Town Center Primary School, so that children can experience the basic principles of unmanned driving and artificial intelligence, and can also feel the charm of science and technology. The picture below is the scene of playing to the cloud club usually in class.
Zhejiang Shanye is a nature education institution founded in 2015, we take parent-child families, adults into nature, understand nature, learn nature, hope to sow the seeds of nature into the hearts of more citizens, to create a natural feeling, full of natural life atmosphere of green Hangzhou, protect our ecological environment, guard our common home.
Volunteers in the mountains of Zhejiang
I've already gone to school to explore the road
In order to find a safe route, suitable for children to learn nature, so that children can start to know the creatures of their hometown from the side, Qianjiang Evening News reporter specially followed the volunteers of Zhejiang Shanye lao Jiang, Octagon and Xiao Cheng to Fengshuling Town Center Primary School two days ago to conduct field exploration camps.
The road to Maple Ridge Town Center Primary School is so beautiful, not only the mountains and waters of Qiandao Lake, but even the road is beautiful, sometimes the car takes an "S" shaped turn, and the scenery that appears each time it is turned around is completely different.
As teacher Jiang said: "Life is not only poetry and far away, but also cherish the beauty in front of you", that is, the road to Maple Ridge Town has a feeling.
Teachers say that after taking such a beautiful road by car, there are not enough eyes. Along the way, the teachers of The Mountains of Zhejiang Province watched the mountain flowers and talked about various flowers and grasses, while taking us to see the birds of prey in the sky.
"This time you can take the children to observe biodiversity while walking, and this kind of field nature class is really amazing."
Maple Ridge Town Center Primary School is in the middle of the mountain, there is a large uphill in front of the school, the school is built on the high ground at the foot of the mountain, the school building is very new, the playground is very large, not only has a plastic track, but also a basketball field. The path opposite the playground is the rock wall, and there is a mountain road behind the school building.
After the field visit, the teachers "opened up" a teaching route around the children. From the new campus to the old campus, teachers in Shanye, Zhejiang Province, are more eager to teach children the way to observe nature: "As long as children learn to read the book of nature, they will find that the encyclopedia is around, and the mountain area is even more so." ”
3 hours walked tens of thousands of steps
The teachers "customized" a nature lesson
For journalists who are almost "plant blind," the greenery all over the ground is collectively known as "wildflowers and weeds," but for teachers, each plant not only has a different name, but is also a lesson.
The teachers walked, took pictures, and discussed how to teach the children, walked 9958 steps for more than 3 hours, and designed a line with a "lecture head".
The beginning of the line is the school's classroom, through the back hill of the school building, and then go to the old community more than 200 meters away to take a turn.
When designing the route, Yamano's teachers and Principal Jiang of the town center elementary school fully considered the safety of the students.
Pictured: Teachers and school principals in Shanye, Zhejiang Province, are exploring the way.
Halfway up the hill behind the school building, it turned out to be a place for students to learn farming, because the school was relocated, this site has not been sorted out, volunteer teachers climbed to the middle of the mountainside, and seriously thought about it: "The mountain is a bamboo forest, bamboo is more domineering, other plants are less, and there are fewer animals." If it is a bamboo shoot, you can also take everyone to dig up bamboo shoots and teach everyone how to find bamboo shoots, which is not suitable for this season. ”
"The plants and animals on the route can be said, but the road is a little difficult to walk, and it may soon take a few days to rain, so we are very accustomed to walking on the mountain road, and the children may not be able to do it."
So, after halfway through the mountain, the teachers decided to turn back, take as little as possible, and carefully observe the flora and fauna under the mountain.
"The natural environment here is too good, there are many insects to tell you, you see these potted cycads are yellow, in fact, it is not a problem of water and soil, it is the larvae of the curved purple gray butterfly that eats the cycad leaves, the larvae become adults, and immediately can find wildflowers that eat nectar nearby, so this place is really their paradise, and the cycads are pitiful."
Curved purple-gray butterfly
"There are also many spiders hiding in the grass, so that children can also know the cuteness of spiders, do not see bugs and feel terrible, in fact, they are a very important part of nature."
"Some of the adult insects can be seen, so we go and print out the pictures of the larvae so that the children can also find out where the larvae live, or are willing to go to the library to look up the materials." In order to customize this nature lesson for children, Yamano's teachers have thought of many ways.
Don't look at the weeds that everyone doesn't like
They all have many stories
So, what interesting and useful knowledge points will the teachers talk about on the spot, the reporter first spoiled it in advance, and everyone should also listen to a plant class.
For example, these big tents and large tents on the mountain, which make the locals very headache, the teachers can tell the story: "This wild grass is called the five festivals, and now everyone has to get rid of them, thinking that the vitality is too exuberant, it will rob the nutrition of cash crops, but this plant is the vanguard of the natural greening of the wasteland, not afraid of the barren land, easy to live, after rotting to become fertilizer, a year or two down, the land will slowly be fattened." And it is a good material for making high-grade paper, because of the good toughness, when harvesting it, a careless hand will cut it, but it means that its fiber quality is good, and it is very suitable for papermaking. ”
"The dog tail grass that is everywhere is actually the ancestor of millet, the old ancestor of the Yellow River Basin domesticated the dog tail grass, and then became millet in the grain, for some areas in the north, millet was once a staple food for a long time."
"This flower is a hyacinth flower, also called acute seed, especially suitable for experiments with children. It turned out that in Hangzhou to lead the team, the girls like to let me experiment with hydrangea flowers to dye their nails, you can also let the children come to lace every day after school and on the way to school, etc., to see if the flowers 'burst' open, is it like a small cannon, you can also find the flower seeds as far as where to run. ”
Finally, to the parents who watched "The Legend of the Paladin Iii" at that time, a plant knowledge was sent, and the names of the protagonists in this drama were all plants, such as Yukimi, Feipeng, Sedum, Zixuan, Dragon Kui, and even Xu Changqing and Chonglou were all plants.
The teacher of Zhejiang Shanye also found Dragon Kui and Xiao Feipeng in the school, and the octagonal teacher, who was also a fan of "The Legend of the Paladin Sword", said: "Sword Three is a bunch of plants in love." ”
After hearing this detail relayed by the reporter, the staff of Daily Positive Energy said: "I hope that this nature class can also plant a curiosity for the children and re-understand the flowers and plants they can see every day." ”
Picture said: This is the dragon flower.