After the introduction of new state standards into the system of domestic education, design activity became a mandatory element in any subject area. Under the guidance of their mentors, teachers, the guys think through and implement research in various scientific fields. At the initial stage of training, students study the course “The World around”.
Within the framework of this school subject, they get an initial idea of wildlife, processes. Special attention in this educational area is given to local history and patriotic activities. dwell on some of the work of students.
“We are responsible for wildlife”
Projects around the world can be carried out in the process of getting to know plants and animals. As an object for work, you can consider birds, animals that need protection. What is the best place to start a project? "The world: do-it-yourself Red Book" is one of the options for the name of future work for elementary school students.
The subject will be those conditions that allow people to conserve endangered species of animals.
As a hypothesis, a young researcher may suggest that he will be able to make his contribution to the conservation of wildlife.
Significance of work
Projects around the world expand the children’s knowledge about the nature of their land, teach them to be responsible citizens, take care of plants and animals. The result of this work may be the “Save for posterity” stand. Projects around the world involve the use of additional materials:
- colored paper;
- scissors;
- gouache;
- watercolors;
- colored pencils.
Based on the results of the activity, the child (group of children) draws up the booklet “The Red Book of My Region”.
Projects around the world can be carried out both during the training session, and as part of extracurricular activities.
What can the Red Book tell?
To begin with, it is important to highlight the goal, tasks of work, choose an algorithm of actions. In the introduction, the author substantiates the relevance of the topic chosen for research. For example, it can be noted that our region is distinguished by its unique flora and fauna, but some plants need protection. If we, ordinary people, do not take measures, then in a few years some of the wildlife will disappear, our descendants will never know how some flowers smell.
Our region needs help, therefore, we, schoolchildren, should know about the existence of the Red Book, take care of those plants that are listed in it.
Opinion poll
In order to create the Red Book of their village, city, the guys must collect certain information. One way to obtain information is to conduct an anonymous sociological survey. The young researcher offers respondents several questions related to the subject of his work:
- what do you know about the Red Book;
- what she is talking about;
- why she is called "red";
- what plants and animals fall into such a book;
- how is it arranged.
After statistical processing of all questionnaires, the author summarizes and draws conclusions.
For example, you can take a sociological project around the world. Animals that respondents indicated in their responses can be the subject of research.
If the questionnaire shows that most of the respondents do not own information about the Red Book, its significance, this is a direct confirmation of the relevance and timeliness of the creation of the project.
Save and save
Currently, the number and prevalence of animals is changing before our eyes. The reduction in numbers is important for steppe eagles, partridges, hares. With their disappearance, the surrounding world can also change. The project “Our class is a guardian of nature” should help change this trend. What did we decide to do? We have created an information booklet that shows the reasons for the reduction in the number of these species:
- excessive drought;
- unorganized hunting;
- poaching;
- the use of chemicals in fertilizing fields;
- environmental pollution.
Project Conclusion
How can I complete the project "The World"? Grade 3 involves the provision of work results to classmates at educational and research conferences, as well as attracting public attention through information booklets created by the efforts of the project team.
They can reflect the results of an anonymous sociological survey, indicate those animals that are listed in the Red Book, and list the rules of behavior in the forest.
The work "Red Book of my land"
We offer a finished project. "The world. Grade 3 ”contains several paragraphs related to the topic. This can be used to develop the cognitive interest of the younger generation, the formation in children of a positive attitude to wildlife. The goal will be to study the native land, get acquainted with rare and endangered species of animals and plants.
What other purpose does the City project pursue? The world around us is so vulnerable that a person must take care of nature.
Each region has its own plants and animals that need protection. The Red Book of the Voronezh region was approved in 2008. It brings together about seventeen thousand species of plants and animals. About 850 more species were not included in it, but also need special protection, since their number decreases annually. The book provides information on the biological characteristics of the species, causes of extinction, conditions for protection and restoration.
Within the framework of the project, it was possible to identify the main categories of rarity of the species:
- those that have disappeared;
- Immediately endangered;
- rare;
- declining numbers;
- recoverable.
For example, if earlier such a red fish as trout was spread in the Don River, which laid eggs here, then after the construction of the Tsimlyansk Dam, this valuable variety of fish disappeared completely.
At the beginning of the last century, there were many black grouses, but in the second half of the 20th century, the bird disappeared almost completely. The reasons for this phenomenon can be considered poaching, deforestation, drainage of wetlands. In central Russia, there is a tendency to reduce the number of birds of prey: golden eagles, owls, hawks, eagles.
In the Voronezh region there are almost no pelicans, bustards, and streptos, and the number of snakes is also declining. Biologists try to restore some of the animal species on their own. For example, in the second half of the last century, the beautiful Apollo butterfly was distributed in the region, then it disappeared.
Through the efforts of students of the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University, who are undergoing summer practice in the Voronezh region, they managed to return these beautiful creatures to their “historical homeland” by borrowing the “Apollos” in Tambov.
Such actions - this is one of the ways to show concern for wildlife. Among the plants that are listed in the Red Book of the Voronezh region, there are:
- leaf peony;
- bell Altai;
- meadow cornflower;
- broadleaf wormwood, blueberry.
Biologists are convinced that in order to preserve rare species, it is important to create the maximum number of specially protected areas in the region: reserves, reserves.
Nature Conservation Project of the Arkhangelsk Region
Questions relating to the caring attitude of a person to the plant and animal world are considered in classes on the surrounding world in all regions of the country. Such a northern region as the Arkhangelsk region is no exception. For example, the project can be devoted to the study of juniper, listed in the Red Book of the Arkhangelsk region. This shrub is considered an indicator of the environmental situation, so it is so important to find out in which territories it grows and what its number is.
Conclusion
At present, it is important to pay close attention to humanity on issues related to the protection and preservation of the plant and animal world of the planet. From an early age, it is important to form a careful attitude towards living organisms in the younger generation, which is fully facilitated by project activities. Some Russian regions have been actively involved in work involving the formation of environmental protection skills in primary school children. For example, in the Arkhangelsk region, in Karelia, special local history courses have been developed, within which children receive initial information about the nature of their region, study the main protected areas located in the region. Together with foresters, employees of national parks, children learn to protect plants and animals, take part in creative contests and olympiads.