2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
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Summer holidays are a fertile time for the development in children of curiosity, observation, love for the living nature around a person, understanding of their place and purpose in this huge amazing world. To fix the listed properties in the child, you can push him to the idea of keeping a diary of observing nature, help him organize and outline the object, the volume and methods of such observation.
Age categories
For children of different ages, we set tasks that are feasible for them.
Junior schoolchildren can easily cope with the daily recording of air temperature; precipitation; sowing dates for flowers and vegetables; dates of germination, flowering, ovary and fruit growth. This information, accumulated over several years, will also be useful for adults to more accurately determine the time of planting, in order to protect their work from spring frosts, but also not to miss the opportunity to plant plants earlier. Using children's records, you can make your own garden calendar, taking into account the conditions of the area and the local climate, since in such calendars sold, average statistical indicators are prescribed that do not always coincide with yours.
High school students can handle more difficult tasks. If you have not only a vegetable garden on your site, but also animals, children can monitor the development of, for example, piglets, calves; keep statistics on the "production" of chicken eggs. Their field of observation may be wider than their own courtyard. You can observe changes in the fields, in the forests surrounding your summer cottage. Starry nights, which almost never happen in cities filled with industrial smog, can be used to observe the universe.
How to make an observation diary
We need to help the children with the design of the diary. It will depend on the tasks assigned to the child. Based on the number of tasks set, we determine the number of columns in the observation table, the number of lines for describing one observation.
We leave free space for the child's drawings; pictures cut from magazines; self-dried plant fragments; photos, borrowed or your own.
Auxiliary Observation Devices
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Compass … In order for the child's observations to be conscious, it is necessary to teach him to navigate in space. We buy a compass in a sports store, explain how to use it (at the same time, we learn ourselves, because not everyone had to hold such a simple and smart device in their hands in childhood). Along the way, you can tell the elementary signs of determining the cardinal points in the forest (by the density of foliage and tree branches, for example), known from school, in the field; in sunny and cloudy weather; in broad daylight and on a starry night.
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Magnifier … An ordinary magnifying glass is very useful for observing insects, flowers and leaves. You can have several loops with different magnification factors. Just teach your child how to use a magnifying glass correctly, in no case leave it unattended in the summer cottage to avoid a fire. After all, an affectionate sun can turn into an arsonist, meeting a stray magnifying glass on its way.
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Microscope … If your family's budget allows, get a microscope. It will expand the possibilities of observing the most interesting microcosm. Life began with microscopic creatures. It is interesting to observe your "ancestors".
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Binoculars … A magnifying glass and a microscope help to plunge into the microcosm. To embrace the macrocosm you need binoculars. It can be used not only for observing nature, but also in games, for example, to search for a "treasure" prepared in advance by adults. The treasure must be looked for by the treasure map drawn by them. In this game, the compass is also useful, the ability to use it.
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Spyglass … To observe the Universe, it is advisable to purchase at least a not too powerful telescope. The greater the multiplicity of the tube lens, the deeper the child will be able to penetrate into the secrets of the universe.
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