What are didactic materials? These are all kinds of materials designed to improve the learning process or development of children in school or kindergarten. Well, then in more detail about what didactic materials are for school, kindergarten and just classes.
What do they include
Didactic materials include materials that competently complement training:
- presentations;
- educational games;
- all kinds of cards;
- drawings;
- schemes, tables;
- graphs, charts;
- outline maps.
For preschool institutions, these are simpler materials that are aimed at learning in the game. At school, these are contour maps, textbooks, workbooks, task collections, something that makes learning more interesting and effective.
Didactic materials help you complete the task on your own. Students also make such teaching aids with their own hands or with a teacher.
With their help, a lesson is learned more easily and new information is remembered. Since during the lesson the child not only listens, but also considers all kinds of examples, drawings, pictures.
Learning is becoming more diverse. For a better understanding of the new material, the teacher can even show an interesting video or presentation. This is also didactic material. Students are interested in this presentation of material.
Didactic material is also used to consolidate the lesson learned and its further development.
Children learn different ways of presenting information and learn to work with them correctly, to choose important information.
Kinds
Let us analyze in more detail what types of educational visual aids are.
Educational institutions, together with teachers, choose what visual aids are needed for the learning process. This takes into account the clarity, age characteristics of children, the degree of individuality.
A variety of demos
Such manuals include posters, tables, supplements to textbooks, and collections of problems. Still such materials are called handouts. Such benefits are often used by teachers in schools and kindergartens. This is perhaps the most affordable material, it can also be prepared independently. Do-it-yourself teaching didactics teaches children to respect other people's work, and to take care of teaching aids.
Handout
For young students, you can use an unusual handout in the form of a fan, with various inserts, a flip option, with lacing. Such an interesting performance will definitely captivate the young student, and he will learn more new information.
Models, breadboard models of measuring instruments
All this relates to visual aids. With the help of such models, you can learn how various devices are arranged. For example, a globe is a kind of model of the earth. Or a layout for exploring the solar system.
Tables
This is also a handout, but visual materials in the form of tables are very diverse, so they are assigned to a separate group. Tables exist reference, training, educational, test. The information in the tables is arranged in groups in the form of columns, various schemes, diagrams. Large tables are used as a poster and hung on the wall.
Educational didactic materials (tables and graphs) come in several forms:
- Reference - they indicate frequently used information, such tables are usually arranged as posters. For example, the periodic table in the chemistry room.
- Cognitive (such tables serve as additional material to the studied material, for example, the image of the food chain, a visual image of the seasons).
- Instructive (such tables are used as samples, for example, for correct spelling).
- Training (for training and consolidating the material passed, for example, for training mathematical skills).
- Reference.
Images, various pictures
Images of objects, animals, cards with pictures or diagrams. For a more visual image, the drawing can be made in large format and used as a poster. For each subject its own educational posters with images.
Electronic manuals
What are didactic materials in electronic form? These are video lessons, various presentations, electronic audio and video books.
The most effective of all electronic manuals are video tutorials; when viewing such material, most of the information is acquired. With the help of a video lesson, the student can independently study the topic, this option is convenient for the student’s illness or when learning remotely.
Such materials are supplemented by tables, diagrams, photographs, which makes the learning process more fun.
So, when using electronic materials, there is no need for a whole bunch of paper abstracts and visual aids, but naturally this does not completely replace them.
With distance learning, it is possible to ask the teacher questions online, do practical work and take them for verification.
The presence of electronic materials in the modern world is necessary and plays a huge role in the learning process:
- the efficiency of the development of the material is increased;
- information search takes less time;
- children are interested in studying the subject;
- You can study the lesson yourself;
- possible to use for a large audience;
- perhaps clearly explain the new information.
Educational games
Consider another learning option for which various didactic materials are used. These are educational games.
This element of education is more often used in kindergarten or for younger students.
What are didactic materials in the form of a game? During the game, the child receives a variety of information, learns new skills and knowledge. The game is part of the child’s life, but in the process of correctly selected entertainments the young researcher will learn.
- The game brings the child pleasure from the process itself, the result is not important for him.
- Each game has rules, and the child recognizes them, remembers them, thereby learning.
All games can be classified into groups:
- Role-playing games. Children act as a director, they themselves build the plot of the development of the game. It perfectly develops the imagination.
- Stage games. The child receives new impressions and emotions. They form the expressiveness of speech, emotional education.
- Games with designers, with the help of such simple objects a child can create any form, perceives objects not as toys, but as images of adult objects. In the process of the game acquires new knowledge and skills.