Why can the compass guide, why the earth is round and the road is flat, why people walk the moon will follow, why Qinghai Lake is blue-green... In the face of the "machine gun" type of questions from the children in the same class, there are always bully children who can answer like a stream, and parents are sometimes ashamed of themselves!
In fact, behind these interesting questions is a wealth of encyclopedic knowledge. You can find that from our daily life to the pattern of opening our eyes to see the world, they are inseparable from them. Encyclopedic knowledge can not only enrich personal knowledge reserves and improve knowledge structure, but also help us understand the world, solve many problems around us, and guide the establishment of a scientific way of thinking, which is of great benefit to the formation of a broad world view.
Many parents can't help but ask, how to cultivate their children into a "small encyclopedia" that knows astronomy and geography?
Treat your child's questions correctly and protect your curiosity
In the process of growing up, children are curious about many things, and there are always "imaginative" problems that continue to burst out. There are often parents talking, and their children always have endless "why". Some parents feel that their children's questions are absurd, so they are perfunctory; some parents will also show impatience and say, "You are still young and don't understand, don't ask the east and the west."
When children ask questions, it is actually an unconscious way of learning. It shows that when children understand the things around them and explore their surroundings, they have begun to learn to think for themselves. In the child's mind, parents know everything and can do everything, so they will continue to ask adults for advice. If parents blindly perfunctory or discourage their children's questions, it will "hurt" the enthusiasm of the baby to seek knowledge, and over time, the "small flame" of curiosity will slowly be extinguished.
Correct treatment of children's questions can better protect children's desire for knowledge and exploration. First of all, learn to affirm the child's attitude of asking questions, express surprise and encouragement for the questions they ask, so that children are full of curiosity and constantly have an interest in exploring the unknown. Second, do a good job of knowledge reserves and master certain response skills. Parents should also accumulate a wider range of insights through continuous learning, and provide useful references for answering "whys". At the same time, after answering the question, you can also try to ask the child questions, and take the child slowly onto the road of deep thinking. Finally, you should avoid the wrong guidance of "not knowing how to pretend to understand", and when you don't know the answer, you can try to explore with your child. Some parents may be blind and hard-ripped when they can't answer their children's questions because of their good looks, making the second monk confused.
Combined with the inspiration of the life around you, it stimulates the desire to explore
Encyclopedia knowledge is not far away, just in our daily life, parents can put the cultivation of scientific thinking through the bits and pieces around them, take their children to explore, to discover endless fun.
For example, if you buy hyacinth seeds at home, you will take a glass bottle and make it into a "hydroponic plant observation room", and then give it to the child to take care of, tell the child that the plant grows from the seed, and can observe and record the changes of hyacinths every two or three days. When children experience the process of germination, growth, and final flowering of the bulb, they will have a sense of accomplishment, become interested in the reproduction and growth of other animals and plants, and then drive themselves to explore.
For example, at night, you can take a compass and a child for a walk, observe the small stars in the night sky together, and popularize the shape of the Big Dipper to the child like a spoon, and its position will change with the season and time, and the direction of the North Star it points to remains unchanged. The direction of the North Star is due north, and when you get lost in the wild, you can determine the location according to "up north, down south, left west, right east". After instructing the child to use the compass to identify the direction, let him verify according to the direction of the seven stars of the Big Dipper in front of him. Children will have a lot of fun, and the concentration of knowledge of other constellations will increase accordingly.
Make good use of the role of science popularization "bridge" to structure basic cognition
Of course, in addition to relying on the inspiration of parents to obtain encyclopedic knowledge, there is also a very important "bridge link" that is, with the help of encyclopedic picture books or books, popular science animations, etc. Good science is in-depth and simple, from shallow to deep, first help children to structure the basic cognition, after a certain accumulation, and then introduce everyone into the wonderful and vast scientific world.
For example, many children are very fond of small animals, but it is too deep to share with the baby the classification of animals and the origin of species of the "genus of the genus Phytopodidae". At this time, parents can accompany their children and read popular science picture books in their children.
For example, we can see on the KaDa story "Wonderful Nature Encyclopedia", "Children's Fun Science Encyclopedia", "Fantastic Animal Encyclopedia" and other popular science picture books, which can be explained and appropriately extended according to the basic knowledge points in the picture book, and children can better understand the content inside, and have gains in thinking and thinking.
If you're not addicted, you can find answers in some of the knowledge videos of KaDa stories. High-quality content like "Global Geography Encyclopedia", fun and practical science popularization, covering a full range of knowledge points, can further enhance children's scientific thinking ability!
From a young age, we can look at the world, and we have a world view. I hope that the above "little tricks" can help parents more easily guide their children to turn boring learning into interesting cognitive exploration, edutainment and fun. Children can get rich encyclopedia science in the process of playing, and can also establish a "scientific thinking" system, have the ability to think in the process of growth, and constantly discover the beauty of the world and life around them!