How to cultivate children's interest in science

Smart children often have a heart for scientific exploration, so how can we make children fall in love with scientific exploration? As the saying goes, interest is the best teacher. Mothers should cultivate their children's interest in science. Here are some practical methods.

Stimulate children's interest in learning

Provide children with abundant manipulable materials, place them purposefully according to the goals, and make timely adjustments and changes. You can set up a science area for children, provide them with abundant materials, and give full play to their imagination and creativity. Children have discovered many interesting phenomena by observing and playing with various objects such as wood blocks, nails, thumbtacks, paper clips, pins, magnets, batteries, and small electric beads. They understand which materials can conduct electricity and which materials cannot, and how to place the batteries so that the small electric beads can light up. Let the children understand their names, appearance characteristics, living habits, and their relationship with humans in the process of playing.

Focus on children’s exploration process

Letting children explore does not mean not giving them some inspiration and guidance. Teachers should give them appropriate guidance in spirit, materials and strategies when they are in crisis or frustration, and be a "passionate and active encourager, supporter, effective and prudent guide". The inspiring language of teachers in activities is very important. Teachers should be good at using inspiring instructions or hints to encourage children to think creatively. In science and technology activities, children will inevitably encounter many problems through hands-on practice. This requires teachers to guide children to think creatively in the process and improve the quality of creative thinking. Science and technology activity teaching requires children to think about problems actively and proactively with their existing knowledge and experience, and cultivate children's ability to actively explore knowledge and solve problems creatively from multiple aspects, multiple angles and creatively. Children's scientific education should be a process of guiding children to explore, discover and acquire knowledge. In other words, children's knowledge and experience are no longer directly told and taught to children by teachers, but acquired by children themselves. Children are active learners. The role of teachers is no longer to explain or demonstrate to children step by step with examples or operational experiments, but to support, inspire and guide children's exploration and discovery process.

Create a good psychological environment

In the past, when designing activity programs for the exploration part, teachers would always unconsciously arrange explanations and demonstrations, fearing that children would not carry out the activities according to the teachers' well-designed intentions. They would make some requirements before each link. This practice actually deprives children of their right to explore, only focusing on success and ignoring the educational process.

For children, it is when they face failure that they will think, figure out, and adjust. Teachers should attach great importance to children's discoveries in their guidance, be good at learning from children's feedback, seize opportunities, and provide timely and effective expansion to deepen the activities.

When guiding children to carry out exploratory activities, teachers should not neglect children's discussions and expressions. Teachers should allow children to express themselves in different ways according to their abilities and levels, including simple language expression, language and action expression, and simple action demonstration. Children should be encouraged to express their experiences in scientific exploration and production, and to show their thinking process in the activities, so as to expand the thinking of all children and achieve resource sharing. Various forms can also be used to reflect the children's operation content and results. Children can also be allowed to show the "new products" they have made to trigger their thinking again.

Exercise your child's will

Scientific activity is a dynamic activity and a special human activity. It is based on practice, verified by practice, and has rigorous logical reasoning.

Children's scientific activities are generalized conclusions drawn by children through their own activities, based on what they see, touch, hear, taste, and smell. In short, they directly come into contact with various specific facts and gain sensory experience.

Children's scientific exploration is inseparable from their curiosity about the world around them. Curiosity is the internal driving force of children's learning, and it plays an important role in helping children form a positive attitude toward the world around them.

In traditional scientific activities, teachers often neglect to guide children to conduct scientific exploration activities based on the things that children are interested in. This makes children passively accept knowledge in learning activities;

The new scientific education concept focuses on the fun and inspiration of the exploration process, with children as the center. Teachers act as participants and collaborators, guiding children to actively explore scientific activities and experience the joy of gaining successful experiences. Children's autonomy is fully reflected in the exploration process.

In the process of scientific exploration, we will inevitably encounter various difficulties. Only by having the quality of not fearing difficulties can we achieve our goals and succeed. When children encounter difficulties in the operation process, teachers should encourage them not to be discouraged and actively use their brains to find solutions to the problems. If necessary, they can give children appropriate inspiration and guidance to enhance their confidence in overcoming difficulties.

Experience the joy of success

When teachers are guiding children to conduct exploratory activities, they should pay special attention to discussions and expressions with children. Teachers should allow children to express themselves in different ways according to their abilities and levels, including simple language expression, a combination of language and actions, and simple action demonstrations. Teachers should encourage children to express their experiences in scientific exploration and production, and show their thinking process in the activities, so as to expand the thinking of all children and achieve resource sharing. Teachers can also use various forms of tables to reflect the children's operation content and results.

Children can also be asked to show their "new products" to trigger their thinking again. Let them experience success and thus enhance their self-confidence. Science and technology activities should be connected with children's lives and society, develop children's hands-on skills, and cultivate creativity and social skills to cooperate with peers.

Let children participate in science and technology production more often. In addition to adding production activities to regular scientific activities, the science discovery room can also set up a children's production area in terms of environmental setting, place some tools to provide children with convenient and innovative time and space for production. In terms of methods, we should insist that children learn science in exploration activities, and in the process of personal exploration such as observation and perception, they will truly become active explorers and learners, cultivate learning interest and exploration spirit, exercise willpower, and prepare for lifelong learning.