I recall a famous joke where a teacher in a modern school could not prove to children that a jaguar is a wild animal, not a car.
This situation is also possible if the lesson is not about animals, but, say, about minerals. Riddles about gold and diamonds for someone can be a revelation.
It turns out that they are not mined in jewelry boutiques at all!
Do not forget, we will exhaust the resource!
A conversation about the extraction of natural wealth with children of the 21st century should contain information that their extraction cannot grow indefinitely. Riddles about minerals are also an occasion to remind that their resource is exhaustible. Therefore, it is necessary to use them as much as possible and save.
Every year more and more people
On planet Earth lives
It consumes both air and water,
And something else consumes.
What is stored in the earth’s crust,
The au pair can come in handy.
It is mined in a career,
It flows like a fountain
He is raised from the mine to the light.
Treasures of the earth. What is it?
(answer: minerals)
Girls best friends
These mineral riddles will undoubtedly arouse the interest of any public.
I am the hardest mineral.
Among the minerals - the general!
I cut stones and grind
And I'm engraving.
When they cut me,
That will be called a diamond.
Rich fashionistas adornment,
Their gentlemen by offering.
My weight is measured in carats.
Call me guys!
(answer: diamond)
Heavy yellow metal
He lay a nugget in the ground.
Washed away by water
Soil drifts,
Drowned in the river
Brilliant scattering.
I get expensive, hard and small
That's why I am called precious metal.
I need precision instruments
Decoration - women love.
And by my temples the domes shine
And the medals are cast from me.
(answer: gold)
Stone to stone, brick to brick
But most of today's guessers will still have to sort daily not gold and diamond products, but products from completely different minerals.
We make clay
I am red.
Kohl of sand I and limestone
That will be my white sides.
(this mixture is called silicate).
They'll burn me in the oven
For strength and then
The house will be made of me.
(answer: brick)
It would seem that simple riddles about minerals can contain not only information about their use in the national economy, but also useful information about production technologies.
I was lying under my feet
Yes, suddenly it turned out to be necessary.
They added soda and lime,
In a hot oven melted.
And to individual small grains
I had to merge into a single.
Cool the hot mass.
And now I serve for you
Light bulb, window, glass,
Decoration, screen.
(answer: sand and glass)
The given riddles about minerals with answers will allow to introduce children to this topic in an interesting game form.