Preschool age is the most important time in the life of every child. Cognitive research activity in the course of personality development is no less important than the GCD itself. Experimentation in the middle group is the search for knowledge, obtaining it with the help of an adult or on their own. The main task of the kindergarten is to develop and support in each child an interest in discoveries, new knowledge, research activities and to create all the necessary conditions for this. How to do it competently?
Goals, objectives and requirements for the design of the corner of experimentation in the middle group of DOE
The main goal of creating corners of experimentation for children of any age is the development of skills in interacting with various objects of research in the laboratory.
The tasks of experimental activity include:
- the development of primary ideas about the world of matter and nature;
- development of activity, curiosity;
- development of logic and thinking (the baby learns to compare, generalize);
- the formation of skills to explore the subject on the necessary points.
The experimentation corner in the middle group should be designed in accordance with the rules and regulations. The main requirements for it are safety, appropriate to the age of the pupils, fullness and accessibility of the location for the kids.
Designing a corner experimentation for the middle group
The main exhibit of the corner is a spacious cabinet or rack. By the way, a modern and convenient piece of furniture DOU can acquire not without parental voluntary support. The cabinet should have many shelves and compartments of different sizes.
If there is no such furniture in a kindergarten, then experimentation in the middle group can take place on a large table or in a convenient cabinet. In the corner there should be a place for an exhibition-museum, where collections of stones, feathers, shells, photographs from museums of the country will be exhibited. There must also be a comfortable place to store all the necessary material and conduct the experiments themselves.
Experimenting in the middle group: keeping a corner
The entire content of the corner of the experiments should be clearly divided into three components: didactic, stimulating, and equipment components. Read about the specific content of each section below.
- Didactic component. Experimentation in the middle group must be supported by educational material and various bright posters, the contents of which are explained by the teacher. Here should be informative books and encyclopedias suitable for children by age, various thematic albums, interesting collections (cones, shells, fabrics, paper, stones), a mini-museum.
- Component of equipment. Children's experimentation in the middle group requires the full filling of the corner with various objects. Surely there should be sand, clay, earth and all kinds of devices for playing with them (scoops, shovels, buckets, strainers). Here there should be dyes (food, gouache, watercolor), seeds of different plants in jars or boxes, food (sugar, flour, salt, sunflower oil). Conducting experiments involves the presence of equipment, such as magnifiers, vessels, magnets, mirrors, corks, clothespins, etc.
- The stimulating component is needed so that children can engage in experiments on their own. Place here the algorithms for conducting experiments in pictures and the rules for safe behavior in the corner. Settle in the corner of the character, on behalf of whom all problematic situations will come (Dunno or Pochemuchka). Children will be happy to help!
Experiments of children of the middle group with soap
Experimentation in the middle group should first of all be interesting for children. Preschoolers of 4-5 years of play and experiments with soap and water are very fond of. Such experiments will introduce children to the properties of soap, help develop curiosity, thinking, and also teach the correct and safe handling of hygiene items. These experiments can be of such a plan:
- touch, smell a bar of soap (its smoothness and aroma are felt);
- examine the water (conclude that it is warm and transparent);
- immerse soap in water (it is slippery);
- rub a sponge with soap and dip into water (water changed color);
- take a tube and blow soap bubbles out of it.
Experiments in the middle group with sand
The experimentation corner in the middle group should be convenient for carrying out experiments with sand. Classes introduce children to the properties of sand, its origin, develop perseverance, attention, fine motor skills. Children can touch the sand, pour it from vessel to vessel, examine through a magnifying glass, mix with water or lower it to the bottom of a can of water.
All children are very fond of experiments with different subjects. Therefore, experimentation in the middle group should be given considerable time!