How can children in elementary school talk about objects of nature so that they not only understand everything, but also find it interesting? It is better to explain with real examples than to speak in scientific language or definitions. After all, that which you can feel and feel yourself, remember and understand is much easier.
Encyclopedias, films and samples
Not every child during a lesson at school will understand what an object in general is, not just nature. Having said the word "object", the teacher or parent must show a photograph, a poster, for example, with birds, animals in the forest. Let the child understand why the bird is an object of nature, and alive.
It is desirable to demonstrate objects of animate and inanimate nature with examples. You can do this in words. But, as a rule, a child is more interested in perceiving information visually than by ear. If you still chose the second option, then it is better to tell an interesting story, a fairy tale, and not make a dry listing.
It is advisable for parents to purchase colorful children's encyclopedias in which plants, animals, birds, clouds, stones and so on are beautifully illustrated. You can tell a child that a fish lives in water and eats algae. These are all objects of nature. It is recommended to show, for example, a glass, a laptop and a blanket and say that they do not belong to objects of nature, because these things were created by man.
Living and inanimate nature
How to distinguish between animate and inanimate nature? What is she like? What man did not create is the objects of nature. Examples can be given ad infinitum. How can children distinguish between animate and inanimate nature? The next section of the article is fully devoted to how to attract the attention of toddlers to what surrounds them. And now you can only explain with words how to distinguish between living and nonliving.
It is advisable for children to show a training 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 fell into the frame. It is advisable to press a pause and show which of them is an inanimate object, and who is alive. 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."
Good 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. The city children can be shown flowers on the windowsill, because these plants are also living objects of nature. They were raised by people, but they still remain part of the plant world. Pets, parrots, cockroaches and spiders are also objects of wildlife.
It is not necessary to travel out of town to demonstrate inanimate objects. Clouds moving 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 is an aquarium with fish or a turtle. At the bottom of it lies a natural soil that simulates the bottom. Real algae, pebbles and shells, too. But they have no snails. In the aquarium, fish swim. The kids look at them, rejoice at them. At the moment, there are objects of animate and inanimate nature. The teacher, educator or parents should say that the fish is a living object of nature, algae too. But the sand at the bottom, pebbles and shells - inanimate. They do not breathe, do not breed, they simply exist. They have their own mission - to create all conditions for the life of living objects. If there were no sand, then the plants would not grow.
Walk in nature
What reason may appear for an outing in nature? Fishing, hunting, picking mushrooms, berries, nuts. With children, it’s best to go outdoors just to relax. Of course, it will also be useful to pick 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, hare, fly and mosquito. That is, everything that breathes, grows, moves, can feel.
And what objects of nature are inanimate? About the clouds, rain and snow mentioned above. Stones, dry branches and leaves, land, mountains, rivers, seas and lakes with oceans - this is inanimate nature. More precisely, water is an inanimate object, but created by nature.
What is created by nature and what by man
No need to focus children's attention only on objects of nature. The child may get confused, think that everything belongs to this category. But this is not so.
At school, the teacher can give examples of what is not an object of nature: textbooks, notebooks, school desks, blackboards, school buildings, houses, computers, telephones. All this was created by man. An object of nature exists without its participation.
There will probably be a valid objection to the fact that the pencil is made of wood, and it is living. But the fact is that the tree is already cut down, it no longer lives. After all, a pencil does not grow before our eyes and does not breathe. This is an inanimate subject and inanimate as well.
Interesting games
At school, you can make a fun game: cut from magazines or print on a printer pictures where objects of nature will be displayed, 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 pebbles at the bottom of the page or he did not know that this was an object of inanimate nature? And another student missed a photograph of the lake, but cut out the plane. We will have to explain to one that the stone is an object of inanimate nature, and to 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 randomly get one, show it at the blackboard to the whole class and say which 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 children is required. An uninteresting lesson is not remembered, and information submitted boringly is not acquired.
It is not necessary in one period to focus the attention of the child on the objects of nature. It’s better to do it unobtrusively. Children who listened carefully will quickly understand. But if the teacher failed to explain the topic, but the child is interested, it remains only for parents to give examples. The main thing is that everything is in the form of a game.