The acquaintance of children with the outside world through riddles is an ancient tradition that not only broadened the horizons of children, but also contributed to the development of ingenuity. As people learned about the structure of the Earth, stars, planets, cardinal points, and much more, puzzles about them appeared.
Today, students learn puzzles about the continents and oceans (Grade 3) in the lessons of the subject "The World."
Natural History in Modern Schools
School discipline "The world around us" is taught from grade 1. If in the first year of study, children learn such categories as living and inanimate nature, wild and cultivated plants, tree species, seasons and wildlife, then in the 2nd grade they study natural phenomena, the symbolism of their homeland, the life of cities and towns, importance of environmental conservation.
No less attention is paid to the kids themselves, so that they realize their place in the world and the responsibility for it. Separate topics are devoted to their nutrition, sports and the importance of what should be protected and strengthen their health.
In the 3rd grade, they gain more in-depth knowledge about the planet they live on and who lives on it. At this age, schoolchildren can already read on the map, get acquainted in more detail with inanimate nature and its properties, for example, air, water, rocks and minerals. No less attention is paid to natural communities and their inhabitants.
To ensure that information new to children is better absorbed, teachers use a game form of instruction, part of which are riddles about continents and oceans. Grade 3 is the age when children no longer just remember material, but can talk about the subject of study.
In Russian folklore, there are many mysteries devoted to geography, the structure of the Earth, space and numerous natural phenomena, which the wise people have watched for many centuries. For instance:
- I went to many countries, sailed along rivers, oceans, walked through the desert with courage only on a piece of paper (Map).
- Sushi is a small piece, but it can be big, and very, and there is water around it (Island).
- The kingdom of fish, whales, squid, starfish, jellyfish, coral (Ocean).
Similar riddles about continents and oceans are short so that children of the 3rd class can understand and remember them. The approach to learning through the game helps schoolchildren better learn and remember material.
The study of ponds on the globe
In the 3rd grade, the lessons on the discipline "The World around us" provide a more detailed familiarization of children with the globe. First of all, schoolchildren are asked to carefully look at what colors prevail on it - it is blue and blue, which designate seas, rivers, lakes and oceans.
So that the guys remember how many oceans on the planet, they give a riddle about the ocean for class 3, for example:
- We will find all these super reservoirs on the globe, because there are few of them in the whole world - only 4 (four oceans).
Even if the students do not immediately remember the names of the oceans, they will know their number on the planet. Learning the globe is one of the most beloved activities in primary school children. Such knowledge significantly broadens the horizons of children and allows us to evaluate the world around them on a global scale.
Different shades of blue on the globe give children information about the depth of ponds, which will help fix puzzles about the ocean:
- Deeper and larger puddles on Earth can not be found (Ocean).
- Wide, deep, deep, day and night beats about the breg, water does not drink from it, because it is very tasteless, and bitter, and salt (Ocean).
- To the right, to the left there is water, ships are sailing here and here, and there, but if you want to get drunk, my friend, every sip will be salty (Ocean).
- It consists of the seas, you, my friend, answer soon, this is not a glass of water, but endless ... (Ocean).
Such puzzles about the ocean allow children to realize that these are the largest bodies of water in the world, their depth and width, the property of their water and other qualities.
Pacific Ocean
The entire body of water embracing the planet is called the World Ocean. Divided by the continents, it forms 4 oceans, the largest of which is called the Pacific or Great.
In the 3rd grade, students study all the world's water bodies and their location. The Pacific Ocean is the largest on Earth, but it is not always calm and affectionate. This name was given to him by Magellan, who was lucky enough to swim in its waters in calm weather. In fact, its waves can form huge tsunamis and destroy entire cities.
Children learn that in the deepest and largest ocean there is a bottomless Mariana Trench, rushing down more than 11 km.
For a better perception of a fairly complex new material, you can tell students that there is a mystery about the Pacific Ocean and its waves, for example:
- In the ocean we walk like blue hills. The ocean is our home, and there are many miles in it, we go into the storm with a solid wall, calm down into the calm (Waves).
- A very formidable phenomenon with a small chance of salvation, everything will be demolished by giant ramparts on the way ... (Tsunami).
- He is mighty and Great, there are many seas in him, he ... (Pacific Ocean).
A similar children's riddle about the Pacific Ocean (Grade 3) preserves in students' memory a picture of the vast, formidable and beautiful water world. Through game moments in the process of the lesson, material consolidation is better than reading a paragraph in a textbook.
Atlantic
Our distant ancestors once believed that there was only one ocean on flat Earth, named by them in honor of the most powerful hero of antiquity - Atlanta.
The Atlantic Ocean formed about 40 million ago, when a single continent of enormous size was divided into Africa, Europe, Antarctica, North and South America. It is on the second place of honor in size and depth after the Pacific Ocean, but on the 1st in salinity of water.
Grade 3 students review information on this global water body, which has a warm Gulf Stream, which emits as much heat into the atmosphere as it produces 1 million simultaneously operating nuclear power plants.
The Atlantic was the first to cross the Columbus caravels, which was extremely risky in those days, since the ships depended on the strength and direction of the wind. The ocean puzzle for children will help to fix the material:
- This is from the water of the desert, where the waves are like dunes, here, among the bottomless blue storms, hurricanes.
The main task of such a school discipline as the “World around” in the 3rd grade is to familiarize students with the structure of the planet, its flora and fauna, which is easy to do in a playful way, for example, giving them puzzles about the ocean or continents as a brain workout.
Indian Ocean
This world pond is in 3rd place in size and depth, but it has primacy in water temperature, which even in the northern part is heated to +35 degrees. Children of the 3rd class will be interested to know that in ancient times this ocean was called the East, but since in the Middle Ages the main trade routes along it were from India, the name was given to it of the same name.
No less interesting for curious schoolchildren will be the riddle about the Indian Ocean associated with the strange circular glow of its waters.
People have watched circles underwater more than once, but the amazing thing about them is that they are more like artificial lighting.
There are similar riddles in every ocean, for example, the Bermuda Triangle in the Atlantic or killer waves in the Pacific Ocean. Information about interesting places on the planet helps to interest primary school children with learning material and develop their curiosity for the world around them.
Arctic Ocean
If you take all the water from the Pacific Ocean and cover the Earth with it, then it will be completely immersed in it at 2700 m, so this world pond is huge. You can’t say the same about the Arctic Ocean, since it is the smallest among its brethren.
Children will be interested to know that this is the coldest body of water that hides under the ice most of the year, and its inhabitants are polar bears, whales, walruses, jellyfish, small fish, plankton and some species of birds that know what part of the water it does not freeze even in the most severe winters.
As there are riddles about the Pacific Ocean, the compilers of folklore did not forget about the Arctic:
- The ocean in the north is cold, covered with ice, but shallow.
- Small, in ice, not deep, but high on the map. Where there is a pole and frost, a sea of ​​thunderstorms has sheltered.
Such children's puzzles about the ocean will create associations about cold, ice-covered large water, whose name is the Arctic Ocean.
Mainland: North and South America
In addition to blue shades, there are other colors on the globe - yellow, brown, green and white - this is land. Third-graders get acquainted with all six continents that are on the planet, and if people came up with riddles about the ocean with answers, then continents, islands, and even atolls also did not go unnoticed:
- It’s like an island in the ring, and it’s not easy to get there, I found that coral on the globe ... (Atoll).
- It is both small and large, always surrounded by water (Island).
In the third grade, students survey each continent. They learn that in the western part of the hemisphere is mainland America, consisting of two parts - North and South. Before learning this material, children learned puzzles about the ocean, and what it is. Therefore, they understand well when they are told that the American continent is washed by the Pacific, Atlantic, and the Arctic oceans in North America.
In North America, one of the longest rivers in the Mississippi world flows, and in South - the Amazon. Among the interesting facts about this continent:
- In the northern part is the Bay of Fundy, known for the largest, up to 17 meters, tides.
- In South America, the highest waterfall on the planet - 979 meters.
- There is also the most powerful waterfall - Iguazu.
- Also, the southern part boasts the hottest place on earth - the Atacama Desert.
There are many similar places on the American continent, so this topic will be interesting to third graders.
Africa and Australia
It is unlikely that a riddle about any ocean sounds more interesting to children than a story about a whole continent covered in mystery. Africa is a distant continent, located on both sides of the equator, washed by the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
There is everything that might interest little travelers studying the globe:
- Impassable jungle, in which exotic flowers grow, predatory animals prowl and wild tribes live.
- Spacious savannas on which the mighty baobabs rise and where elephants, giraffes and cheetahs live.
- Hot deserts the size of the sea.
- Here flows the Nile, which was the cradle of the great culture of Ancient Egypt.
- The great volcano Kilimanjaro rises above everything.
- In Africa, there are full-flowing lakes Victoria, Chad and Tanganyika.
150 years ago, this continent was a supplier to the Old and New Worlds of slaves. Today it has many countries, each of which has its own history and culture. Children will be interested in riddles about this continent, for example:
- Uninhabited Sahara is hot from heat. But among the savannah - elephants and monkeys, lions, zebras and giraffes walk in the hot ... (Africa).
The flora and fauna of the African continent are so diverse that separate books are devoted to them. Lessons on the discipline "The World", dedicated to the continents, make it clear to students in the lower grades how big the earth is, is rich and diverse.
The smallest mainland is Australia, which is washed by the Pacific and Indian oceans. Many children know him, since only here they live a kangaroo, as mentioned in the riddle:
- Only in a country of such a remote kangaroo does the smart one live. He will not abandon his children, but carries with him in a bag (Australia).
It is on this continent that there are animals that cannot be found in other places - echidna, platypus, koala. On the coat of arms of the country of the same name depicts a kangaroo and an ostrich emu, but the flora of Australia is no less interesting . Eucalyptus and bottle trees grow here, which have adapted to the hot climate of the mainland. In one, the leaves are always turned edge to the sun so that it does not burn them and does not pick up moisture, while in the other, the shape of the trunk in the form of a bottle collects water and gradually expends in the dry season.
Eurasia
Although the riddle about the Pacific Ocean for children or the atoll is interesting for schoolchildren, they will surely like the story about the continent, which is located in two parts of the world - Eurasia. It is the largest in size and washed by all the oceans, and folklore invented such a riddle about it:
- Part of the world and the mainland forever united with another part - Asia and was called ... (Eurasia).
This continent has everything - the highest mountains in the world, and wide, full-flowing rivers, and vast plains, and dense forests, and salty seas, and hot deserts, and deep lakes, so big it is. It hosts the countries of Europe, Asia and the Russian Federation.
It is here that the highest mountain in the world rises Chomolungma, known to many under the name Everest. Also on the territory of Russia is Lake Baikal, recognized as the deepest in the world and the largest lake, called the Caspian Sea.
Eurasia also boasts the largest peninsula on the planet - the Arabian Peninsula, on which countries such as Bahrain, Yemen, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Oman are located.
In the lands of this continent there are many minerals, precious metals, thousands of species of animals live in forests and plains, and rivers are full of fish. Pupils of grade 3 in the lesson realize that their homeland is part of Europe and Asia, where numerous peoples live, having their own language, culture, art and history.
Antarctica
The last mainland is the coldest and inhospitable. It is located at the South Pole and is covered with ice, which reach a thickness of 4 km. There are even puzzles about him, for example:
- There are 2 opposite poles on our globe, and at the South we will find a continent covered with ice!
- Here, in the midst of white ice floes, an important penguin is marking time. There are continuous colds, and the penguin here as a guide. He is ready to tell everyone how beautiful ... (Antarctica).
Although this mainland is located at the South Pole, in fact, it has the lowest temperatures on the planet, which sometimes reach –89 degrees. In some of its areas penguins live and mosses and lichens grow, but in general it is deserted.
The only temporary inhabitants of this permafrost are scientists from different countries who live in strong and insulated scientific laboratories. These people study the ice, its condition, direction and strength of the winds and watch the penguins, the largest of which are called imperial.
Antarctica is washed by the Southern Ocean, as oceanographers conventionally designated it. It includes the waters of the southern Indian, Pacific and Atlantic oceans. In fact, such a world reservoir is not officially recognized, so there are no puzzles about it yet.