How can children in elementary school be told about objects of nature in such a way that they not only understand everything, but also find it interesting? It is better to explain with real examples than to use scientific language or definitions. After all, what you can feel and feel yourself is much easier to remember and understand.
Encyclopedias, films and samples
Not every child during a lesson at school will understand what an object is in general, not only nature. Having said the word "object", the teacher or parent should show a photograph, a poster, for example, with birds, animals in the forest. Let the child understand why a bird is an object of nature, and a living one.
It is desirable to demonstrate objects of living and inanimate nature with examples. It can also be done verbally. But, as a rule, a child is more interested in perceiving information visually than aurally. If you nevertheless chose the second option, then it is better to tell an interesting story, a fairy tale, and not make a dry enumeration.
It is advisable for parents to purchase colorful children's encyclopedias that beautifully illustrate plants, animals, birds, clouds, stones, and so on. The child can be told that the fish lives in the water and feeds on algae. These are all objects of nature. Recommendedshow, for example, a glass, a laptop and a blanket and say that they do not belong to natural objects, because these things were created by man.
Living and inanimate nature
How to distinguish living and non-living nature? What does she represent? What man did not create, these are the objects of nature. Examples can be given ad infinitum. How can children distinguish between living and non-living things? The next section of the article is completely devoted to how to draw the attention of babies to what surrounds them. And now you can only explain in words how to distinguish living and non-living things in general.
It is advisable for children to show an educational video about nature, while watching which they point to various objects and say which of them are alive. For example, clouds, a fox, a tree got into the frame. It is advisable to pause and show which of them is an inanimate object, and which belongs to the living. At the same time, you need to add: animals, birds, insects are animated and answer the question "who", and plants, mushrooms, stones, clouds, respectively, - "what".
Illustrative examples around
Rural children can see nature every day, so they can take a walk and show there what is alive and what is not. City children can show flowers on the windowsill, because these plants are also living objects of nature. They were raised by man, but they still remain part of the plant world. Pets, parrots, cockroaches and spiders are also wildlife.
Not requiredtravel outside the city to demonstrate inanimate objects. Clouds that move across the sky, wind and rain are good examples. Even the soil under your feet, puddles or snow are objects of inanimate nature.
A good example would be an aquarium with fish or a turtle. At the bottom of it lies natural soil, imitating the bottom. Algae are real, pebbles and shells are too. But they don't have snails. Fish swim in the aquarium. Children look at them, rejoice in them. At the moment, there are objects of animate and inanimate nature. A teacher, educator or parents should say that a fish is a living object of nature, algae too. But the sand at the bottom, pebbles and shells are inanimate. They don't breathe, they don't reproduce, they just exist. They have their own purpose - to create all the conditions for the life of living objects. If there was no sand, then the plants would not grow.
Nature walk
What reason can appear for a trip to nature? Fishing, hunting, picking mushrooms, berries, nuts. With children, it is best to go out into nature just to relax. Of course, it will also be useful to collect mushrooms. But this should be done strictly under the supervision of adults. Parents will be able to visually show objects of wildlife, for example, a tree, bushes, grass, mushrooms, berries, a hare, a fly and a mosquito. That is, everything that breathes, grows, moves, can feel.
And what objects of nature are inanimate? Clouds, rain and snow were mentioned above. Stones, dry branches and leaves, earth, mountains, rivers, seas and lakes withoceans are inanimate nature. More precisely, water is an inanimate object, but created by nature.
What is created by nature and what is man
It is not necessary to focus children's attention only on objects of nature. The child may get confused, thinking that everything belongs to this category. But that's not true.
At school, a teacher can give examples of what is not an object of nature: textbooks, notebooks, a desk, a board, a school building, a house, a computer, a telephone. All this was created by man. The object of nature also exists without its participation.
There will probably be a fair objection about the fact that the pencil is made of wood, but it is alive. But the fact is that the tree has already been cut down, it no longer lives. After all, the pencil does not grow before our eyes and does not breathe. This is an inanimate object and inanimate including.
Interesting games
At school, you can make a fun game: cut out pictures from magazines or print pictures on a printer, which will depict objects of nature, and then stick them on a sheet of paper (make cards). The teacher can check what the child cut out. Maybe he did not notice the pebble at the bottom of the page, or he did not know that it was an object of inanimate nature? And another student skipped the photo with the lake, but cut out the plane. One will have to explain that the stone is an object of inanimate nature, and the second - that the plane was created by people and has nothing to do with the game.
When the cards are all ready, you can mix them. Each student will take out one at random, show it at the blackboard to the whole class and say,what living objects of nature are depicted on it. Examples may vary. It is important to pay attention to everything that is present in the picture. The interest of the children is essential. An uninteresting lesson is not remembered, and boring information is not absorbed.
It is not necessary to focus the child's attention on objects of nature in one period. It's better to do it unobtrusively. Children who listen carefully will quickly understand. But if the teacher failed to explain the topic, but the child is interested, it remains only for the parents to give examples. The main thing is that everything should be in the form of a game.
