Some time ago, the People's Liberation Army conducted joint exercises in the waters near Taiwan, Baodao, and attracted worldwide attention. In the news broadcast, some azimuths and coordinates are often heard, such as Taiwan Strait , Taiwan Island , and the four points connected to the east, longitude and north latitude, etc. What area is it in? is not just children, but many adults may wonder and cannot tell the difference.
It is too important to learn some geographical knowledge in life. If a person cannot distinguish between the east, south, west and north, and does not understand Middle East , North Africa , and the Balkans, not only will he be confused when watching the news broadcast, he may not find a way out in daily life.
In fact, there are not many people who are "roadly foolish" in life, not only children, but many adults are the same.
After leaving the community, where is the east gate and the south gate? have no idea.
Traveling at home and abroad, and you can't figure out the route.
Where the sun rises and sets, it is hard to say clearly.
A mother said: I am a road ill, and I don’t want my child to be a road ill, what should I do?
Then cultivate children's geographical thinking as soon as possible!
How to cultivate children's sense of orientation and even their geographical thinking?
First, take the children out to see. The world is very abstract in the eyes of children; the vision is often limited to the city, community, and house where you are located. Therefore, if you take your children to truly understand the world, you should travel more, see famous mountains and rivers, and see the customs and customs of various places. See more and understand more.
Second, read books, read newspapers together and understand the world. In the corridor from my living room to my bedroom, I hung two maps of China and the world. I also ordered a newspaper called " Reference Message ". When a hot incident occurred in a certain part of the world, my child and I walked to the map while reading the newspaper to find out where it happened and the surrounding situation. For example, after the Ukrainian crisis, let’s take a look at Kiev and Crimean Peninsula .
A person’s worldview determines his outlook on life; while more increase in geographical knowledge will increase the child’s vision and breadth of observing the world.
Third, learn some geography knowledge early to enlighten. Geography is a discipline that is both liberal arts and science, and is related to history and biology. started to cultivate geographical thinking from an early age. The results of geography courses in the future are no problem, and the child’s vision and comprehensive analysis and judgment ability will improve, and the benefits will last for life.
Before seeing a Peking University academic master, sharing her experience in winning the college entrance examination, saying: Children who have been exposed to geography since childhood will choose history + geography + biology in the future, which is particularly easy to get high scores, and there is also relatively free room for choosing majors.
However, geography is a relatively abstract comprehensive discipline. If there are no specific and interesting explanations, it will become boring and will dispel some children's curiosity and desire to explore. So, I have been looking for interesting geography enlightenment books for my kids that he may be interested in.
For example, the set of Geographical thinking enlightenment books shared today -
"Interesting geographical knowledge has increased again"
This is a set of reviewed by geographic experts and recommended geography game book , major themes, 100+ games/puzzles/find/draw a picture, allows children to reason and observe while playing with light, thereby training geographical thinking.
These 8 books have 8 major themes in total. breaks up the curious geographical knowledge that children come into contact with every day and explains it step by step:
"This is the map", "This is the direction and direction"
"This is the mountains" "This is the river"
"This is the Earth", "This is the Terrain"
"This is the Volcano" "This is the Earthquake"
These eight major themes cover rich knowledge points. are all knowledge points that children need to learn in a geography class, and they are told in an interesting way.
Look at the inner page of the book, open the book, [Popular Science Knowledge] + [Fun Game] is combined together, and the pictures and texts are all in full.
It has 00+ fun games - puzzles, coloring, connections, drawings, Q&A, activates hands and brain, enhances memory, and cultivates geographical interests.
For example, talking about "plateau", it is like a cake, the surface of the plateau is high and low, and the surrounding edges are straight up and down. Children will see such a "landscape drawing" and need to observe carefully before they can find the plateau.
Knowledge points are linked together. After talks about the plateau, then we understand the plains. When children see this, they will know the advantages of the plains.
Why do you recommend this set of books?
Establish geographical thinking, start with understanding the earth!
Children You need to establish geographical thinking and worldview, follows the perspective of ancient philosophers, and It is a key step to understand the earth first.
What is the earth like in the child’s mind? In "This is the Earth" , we take our children to know the Earth.
▼ You would never think of it: if there was no water on the earth, it would become like this...
But in the eyes of ancient people, without scientific observation tools, what is their understanding of the earth like?
▼ Ancient people had four ideas, weren’t it very interesting? Guess which one is the conjecture of ancient Chinese?
A! ! !
First: The sky is round and the place, the world philosophy of the ancient Chinese, which derived the human world view.
and Greek philosopher - Socrates In the eyes of the eyes, the earth is like a ball, colorful, that is, mountains, rivers, plains, etc. on the surface of the ball.
The metaphor is very appropriate!
I have to admire the imagination and reasoning power of philosophers. When children think about the world, they can also start their natural brain.
Is the earth spherical? Children can find more facts to support this conclusion.
▼ Someone looks at the mast of the ship - the ship is getting closer and closer, and the hull is larger.
▼ Interestingly, some people actually can't see Polaris ? Here you will get a new knowledge: Australia can't see Beidou Seven Stars . The reason is that they are in the southern hemisphere, and their latitude is high, so they are invisible.
▼ will also ask children questions: MagellanAfter the global navigation, crossing various continents, oceans and straits, is it really clear that the earth is round? Not necessarily.
Only in 1968, the astronaut of the United States Apollo 8 took the first color photo of the earth from the moon orbit, did humans see so clearly that the earth was a real spherical shape.
Human understanding of the earth: After experiencing intuitive conjectures - looking at sails, looking at stars - traveling around the world - spacecraft to observe in space, they truly understand its "true face"!
Our children will also truly establish geographical thinking from this exploration process. In this book,
, it also talks about the up and down of the earth, gravity, longitude and latitude lines , and globe, how to discover longitude and latitude lines in life.
There are also a series of geographical knowledge points:
For example——
▼ How big is the "waist" of the earth? 40075.02 kilometers!
▼ "A map that can deceive people", why is Greenland so big?
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visualizes abstract geographical concepts,
is conducive to cultivating children's "geographic thinking"
This set of books is very creative, lets children learn with "geographic thinking".
First of all, the abstract concept becomes concrete and easy to understand.
For example, like "top of the mountain, ridge, valley, saddle , steep cliff ......, the teacher keeps marking the key points, and then memorizing it by rote, painful and helpless!
This book provides a simple and good way! Extend one of your hands and clench it into a fist, and you will find that the basic form of the mountain is right in front of you.
Abstract knowledge is visualized all at once, and children can quickly know where their respective locations are. can understand them all at once, and there is no need to memorize them at all.
Second, interactive mini-game + hands-on, to break through the difficulties.
For example, the "contour lines" that need to be learned in the seventh grade are difficult to understand. In the geography volumes of previous years, I saw a dense line diagram and asked to find out the name of the terrain. Parents try it with their children?
Where is the valley, which is the top of the mountain, and which is the steep cliff? Are you confused? Do you know how to choose?
Many children are losing points here!
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How to help children understand the "contour line" topographic map? There are wonderful methods in this set of books.
Look at the picture below, from the contour line characteristics-action-method, Let the children use potatoes to understand this knowledge point by hand.
First, cut the potatoes into a mountain look, and there must be five basic parts of the mountain.
Secondly, cut the potato model into different slices and mark it.
Finally, the outlines are drawn one by one, and there is contour topographic map !
Use this small game of to directly interact with hands and brains. Children can better understand knowledge, take the initiative to think, and use hands and brains to solve problems, and train their geographical thinking ability.
More importantly, games + knowledge combination, real learning, children are willing to watch and actively absorb knowledge, why worry about geography is not good? let children learn while watching every day. Isn’t this much more meaningful than going to the playground?
