Genuine civil society is made up of people witha sense of responsibility towards each other, with a conscious attitude towards life and careful towards nature. If adults really need to carry out an environmental education program, then children are connected with nature from the beginning. They climb trees, run around the fields, play with animals, wonder at the waves on the sea and the water surface of the lake, catch snowflakes with their mouths and slap merrily through puddles. Children more than anyone else understand the true value of nature. In our age of spiritual plague, it is worth paying attention to children who need to study nature and ecology.
Protection of nature is important!
In the 21st century, a smoking factory and scattered everywhereno one is surprised by the garbage. We are accustomed to the sickening smell and the fact that tap water cannot be drunk under any circumstances. We eat fruits and vegetables grown in greenhouses and having no taste or nutritional value. At the moment there is at least such an opportunity. So what is next?
Человек истощает природные ресурсы, вырубает forests pollute the atmosphere. Because of this, the ozone layer is destroyed and the climate is changing. Man kills animals, many species are lost forever. With the current growth rate of destruction of natural ecosystems by 2030, they will not remain at all. A society of growing consumption leads to catastrophic changes in nature, which also affect humanity.
Если никого не пугает повсеместный рост бедности and hunger, very high child mortality, the lack of clean drinking water in 2/3 of the world's settlements, the increase in allergic diseases, the HIV and AIDS epidemic, one can not care less about the environment and continue in the same vein. But the planet must breathe, like people, and therefore it is time to listen to its needs.
Children's environmental education
What is it - the ecology of the eyes of children?To develop environmental responsibility from a very young age. Having only risen to his feet, a person should be aware that by tearing a flower, he hurts him, and by throwing garbage on the street, he litters his house. Children from parents and teachers in schools should hear that environmental management is not a whim, but a necessity. We can take from nature, but exactly as much as we need, helping and replenishing the natural balance.
Children have a clearer and nicer form of play and creativity.Of course, boring lectures and notations can sicken the topic. But all sorts of competitions of drawings, crafts, song competitions, quizzes, environmental campaigns - is another matter. They will interest both the five-year-old baby and the teenager.
Environmental design competition
Children's drawing competition is one of the bestways to spend time fun and profitably. Boys and girls with pleasure will draw and global environmental problems, and beautiful landscapes, and the harmony of man and nature. Competition can be held not only at home, but also at school and kindergarten. Children will be offered a choice of gouache, watercolor, crayons, pencils, ink, and at least a pen. The main thing is that the students could express their thoughts and feelings by putting them on paper. What is ecology through the eyes of children? Their vision of nature and attitude to it is represented in a variety of colorful creative works.
Children's drawing competition will help to combineneedlework of girls, boys and their parents. It's great when families come together for such important reasons. For example, moms and dads can prepare coloring on the theme "ecology through the eyes of children." So you can attract the attention of small citizens to important problems in nature, in the relationship between man and nature. Children painting pictures will fantasize and think about the important things.
Contest crafts and applications
Kids and schoolchildren, like many adults, are verylove to create something with their own hands. So why not arrange a contest "Ecology through the eyes of children"? In the fall, it is a great excuse to gather acorns and chestnuts, fallen colorful leaves, twigs and pebbles, and then build some animal or house out of all these finds. In the summer, you can paint sea pebbles and make an herbarium of the flowers found in the field, signing each one and indicating interesting information about it. For older children and teens, you can make your own small terrarium in a bottle.
The contest “Ecology through the eyes of children” alsowill help to attract children to the problem of protecting nature. A good modern idea of scrapbooking: you can make environmental cards and posters. The application of multi-colored buttons and branches in the form of autumn foliage will cause delight in both small and adults.
Quiz "Ecology through the eyes of children"
Such a quiz for the youngest canhold in the form of an interactive theater. Children act out or read poems on the subject of nature. For such an event (as a scenario for performances), the works of the following authors are suitable: Paustovsky, Barto, Zhitkov, Bianki and Kipling. Children can choose poems from those offered by the teacher or write independently. The competition "Ecology through the eyes of children" for senior school age can be held in the form of the game "What? Where? When? ”Or“ Own game ”, where children will be able to improve their knowledge about ecology, interconnections in the world of nature and the harmony of man and the environment.
Hiking and Eco-Tourism
The project "Ecology through the eyes of children" is not necessarymust be dedicated to science or creativity. This may be a sporting event or a trip to the nearest forest (park). What to organize for middle and high school students? You can spend orienteering. An interesting idea would be a quest with tips and tasks in certain places. This will delight not only children, but also their parents. For the smallest, you can also find tasks: examine the cones, foliage, feed the squirrels, study the bark of the trees.
There is another option.Children with parents go out of town with an overnight stay in tents. The task for the guys can be making a campfire (under the strict supervision of adults) and shooting from a sports bow. Rest outside the city usually involves fishing. You can also organize horse riding.
Along the way, educators should talk about nature, terrain, the importance of preserving all of this for themselves and their descendants.
Separate garbage collection
In Russia, the catastrophic situation with separategarbage collection. Making our people to engage in this useless, in the opinion of many, is almost impossible. Why not start with little citizens? Within the framework of the event “Ecology through the eyes of children”, an open lesson for schoolchildren and their parents can be held. The teacher will tell in detail about the problem of landfills in the world, clearly show you how to sort the garbage, point out the garbage collection points on the map, play with the students in the game of separate garbage collection and give a home task. Thus not only the children’s part of the population is covered, but also adults. After all, the child cannot be denied the opportunity to develop and comprehend the world.
Growing plants
In the classroom biology and botany teachertalk about the plants, the stages of their growth and development. Be sure to arrange practical classes for children. To add a game moment, teachers can themselves give out seeds in white unmarked bags to students, explaining the basic rules of care. Girls and boys will have to record and photograph all the growth stages of their pet. And in the end try to guess what their plant is called. The one who will cope with it from the first, the automatic machine receives the five in a quarter.
Such a game will help children to understand how difficult it is to grow at least one plant, bring them a careful attitude to nature.
Briefly about the important
There are many ways to develop in a child.desire to live in harmony with nature. Moreover, in children it is laid from birth. The main thing is to indicate to the child the correct motion vector. As in the case of drawings, applications, games, quizzes, and in the case of hikes and separate garbage collection, environmental thinking is developing. The schoolboy begins to realize what kind of work nature is doing every day to prove to people that she is right.
Environmental education should be the basiseducation of the new man of the 21st century. Only in this way can we build a healthy civil society. After all, if a child perceives nature as a home, he will take care of it and, as an adult, will not allow wars and bloodshed.
