What should children do during summer vacation? A survey shows that during this summer vacation, nearly 70% of families will arrange various summer vacation training for their children.
Douma's friend Minmin posted a child's summer vacation course on his Moments. Not only did he arrange Chinese, mathematics and English training classes from Monday to Friday, but he also had piano classes on Saturday and Sunday evenings.
The children’s summer vacation can be said to be “very fulfilling”.
Dou Ma can understand that even during the summer vacation, children cannot relax their studies. Not only should they consolidate the content of the previous semester, but they should also preview the knowledge of the next semester.
But, besides learning and training classes, what else should children have during summer vacation?
What is Japan's free research?
Other mountain stone can be used to polish jade. Put your perspective on other countries, and parents may find better answers.
In July, a young girl in Japan who was only in the third grade, treated her mother seriously: "Don't you just watch movies during the summer vacation?"
The mother found that her daughter wanted to watch a movie very much, so she decided to watch a movie with her daughter every day, and used this activity as a research topic. Every time she watched one, she had to make a movie review.
Mother and daughter will write down their ideas, draw them, and then post them online.
In a short period of time, nearly 230,000 people expressed their preference for the mother and daughter's research and praised them.
During the summer vacation of Japanese students, there is an open assignment called Free Research . The students themselves determine the research topics, discover problems, and observe, investigate and practice.
In addition to watching movies, there are also children who will study stationery, study insects, make handicrafts, etc.
There is a Japanese elementary school student Kentaro Yamamoto. While studying more than 170 pieces of stationery, he made a detailed report, and it was even published into a book.
Kentaro played the game of "Boom Eraser" with his classmates, so he began to study the extreme performance of different types of rubbers, and then he fell in love with studying various other stationery.
In Kentaro's research, he recorded all the characteristics of the stationery and his feelings after use in the notebook, and also included illustrations.
For example, some kind of automatic pencil, Kentaro will draw patterns and attach words: You don’t need to press the refill to write, and you will feel a little insensitivity when using it, but it is very convenient to describe subtle points!
Not only that, Kentaro also made a comprehensive comparison of stationery: how much is the price of stationery, which pen is better in coloring, which is smoother in ...
This is the content of Kentaro's free research. It seems "small and useless", but it is his interest.
Kentaro has drawn more than 100 pages of content in total, and has been published into a book called "Stationery Illustrated Book", which means "Stationery Use Treasure Book". More than 40,000 copies were sold in the first month after the sale, and he also became famous in one fell swoop.
This is the charm of free research. The research method is determined by the child's interests and ultimately gives unexpected and excellent results.
In order to do a good job in a free study, children should choose the research subjects they are interested in, including flowers, birds, fish, insects, wind, rain, thunder and lightning.
Then the children must formulate research plans, review materials, conduct investigations, etc. After the research, they must organize the results and make a research report.
In this process, children's abilities in all aspects will be greatly improved. When school starts, children will have to hold an exhibition to show their research results. And the best of them will participate in competitions throughout the region.
Some people even regard these free research exhibitions as the cradle of future Nobel Prize winners. In the past 18 years, 18 people in Japan have won the Nobel Prize, which is inseparable from the free research that has been in primary school.
If you can discover your interests from an early age and work hard for it, your future achievements will be limitless.
A 13-year-old boy, Tian Shang, was overjoyed and found that mosquitoes like to bite their sister.
In order to find out the reasons behind it, he took advantage of his own research opportunity to raise two or three thousand mosquitoes at home. After four years of research, he found that it was caused by the fact that there were more bacteria on his sister's feet.
Daxi's research has even been well received by university professors, and he has found his future goals and wants to study mosquitoes and skin.
Japan's free research activities originated from the "Taisho Free Education Movement" 100 years ago. They were advocated by the famous Japanese educator Kohara Kiyoshi, encouraging children to go out of campus and study what they are interested in according to their interests.
After all, this activity allows children to exert their initiative and enthusiasm, improve their ability to discover and solve problems, and learn through personal experience research.
Today, when exam-oriented education is popular, Chinese children lack many activities that contact the outside world, nature, and take their own interests as the starting point.
It is better to teach people how to fish than to teach people how to fish . Instead of constantly instilling knowledge in children, why not let children form the ability to observe and think in free research, so as to form their own independent learning methods.
Only in this way can children take learning as their wings and fly into the ideal blue sky.
So during this holiday, you might as well give your child some time to encourage him to study things that are of interest to you. Maybe the child can give you a surprise!
