Chekhov said: "Science is the most important, beautiful and needed thing in life."
Many parents are troubled. How to teach children science scientifically?
Many people mistakenly believe that the more they know by throwing a set of popular science books to their children and letting them listen and read more.
What a big misunderstanding!
Modern society is a society of science and technology. Adults and children are enjoying the convenience brought by science and technology, especially children in the future will feel more strongly.
What's the use of popular science? What should be popularized for children?
Two things are very important:
1, popularize scientific knowledge
2. Cultivate scientific thinking
If children only know knowledge and lack scientific literacy, their way of thinking will become extreme in their later study and life.
Popular science that children can understand with their own thinking is a good popular science.
Today, I recommend 8 children's books on "popular science thinking" to your children, so that you can raise a little "scientist" in a winter vacation.
These books pay more attention to cultivating children's scientific thinking and methods.
The content of the book covers a wide range, and each knowledge point has a corresponding way of thinking. Guide children to observe more and find out from their own observations.
It is a good exercise for children's thinking ability to abstract the theory from theory to practice.
Let children become small "scientists" easily.
1. Those important things
Popular science books specially designed for children in China.
Author: British DK Company
Publishing House: China Encyclopedia Publishing House
Recommended index:
Douban score: 9.6
Content introduction:
DK Children's Encyclopedia-Those Important Things focuses on the important things around children and is divided into six chapters, namely:
Important knowledge about the earth;
Important knowledge about geography;
Important knowledge about animals;
Important knowledge about human beings;
Important knowledge related to me;
Other important knowledge.
Recommended reason:
This is a comprehensive encyclopedia suitable for preschool children aged 3-6.
From the children's point of view, according to their special cognitive needs, combined with the unique way of telling DK in Britain, it allows children to know the world, understand the ins and outs of things around them, and cultivate healthy life and study habits.
This book also adopts the form of hand-drawn illustrations and real photos, with vivid and interesting layout and more friendly language.
For parents with parent-child reading threshold, some question-and-answer modes specially designed in this book are also very suitable for parents to explain enthusiastically and not so boring.
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2. "Never thought"
Let the brain jump over the wall and jump out of the thinking trap hidden in common sense.
Author: Wan Weigang (colleague yeyu)
Press: Electronic Industry Press
Recommended index:
Douban score: 8. 1
Content introduction:
This book selects teacher Wan Weigang's articles and book reviews, and is guided by "understanding the world with science and engineering thinking".
The author often uses interesting experiments and data to interpret perceptual things. His thinking of science and engineering involves behavioral economics, cognitive psychology, sociology, statistics, physics and many other disciplines.
Interpreting life from the perspective of cutting-edge science provides people with a new cognitive method.
Recommended reason:
This is a good book with enlightenment significance.
The core of this book is to understand the world with rational thinking. The author combines a lot of cutting-edge new knowledge to get his own critical understanding.
This book has two opposites and one position:
It is a kind of thinking inertia against unreliable common sense, which is anti-common sense;
It is a soul chicken soup that sounds harmless but tastes toxic, which is counter-successful;
It wants to understand and know the world with the style of scientific research, and you need reliable judgment.
After reading this book, it is equivalent to intensive reading of more than a dozen classics that have been screened, recreated and popularized. It is not only interesting, but also nutritious.
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3. National Geographic Encyclopedia for Children
National Geographic magazine is tailor-made for children.
Author: National Geographic Society, USA
Publishing House: Zhejiang Children's Publishing House
Recommended index:
Douban score: 7.8
Content introduction:
National Geographic Encyclopedia for Children is an encyclopedia tailored for children by National Geographic magazine.
It includes:
Our world, adventure world, animal world, cultural corridor, interesting geography, environmental pioneer, window of history, natural mystery, super science.
The content covers animals, plants, history, geography, science and technology, and even food, handicrafts and other aspects.
Recommended reason:
This is an encyclopedia specially written for children.
Mysterious ancient Egyptian pharaoh's tomb, mysterious prehistoric Stonehenge, resourceful and calm brave climbers, tenacious and optimistic one-armed surfers. ...
It opened a wonderful world for us.
In addition, this book also contains some problems that children may encounter in the learning process, such as:
How to write a good composition? How to observe animals scientifically and write animal observation reports? How to read maps and skillfully use atlases? How to do scientific experiments ...
While absorbing rich extracurricular knowledge, children can learn a lot of learning skills, broaden their knowledge and broaden their horizons, which will bring great help to their studies.
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4. 100,000 whys
Lead more teenagers to science.
Author: Han Qide
Press: Children's Publishing House
Recommended index:
Douban score: 7.8
Content introduction:
The book is divided into three sections: basic, special and hot topics, covering mathematics, physics and chemistry to ocean, biology and medicine, with a total of 18 volumes.
The new edition of "100,000 Why" pays more attention to the thinking process, advocates scientific spirit, guides creative exploration, and stimulates teenagers' curiosity and inquiry psychology through small columns such as micro-problems, micro-doctors, experimental fields, keywords and scientists.
Basic plates: mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth and life;
Special topics: animals, plants, paleontology, medicine, architecture and transportation, electronics and information;
Hotspots: brain and cognition, ocean, energy and environment, weapons and national defense, aerospace, disasters and protection.
There are 6 million words in the book, more than 7,000 color pictures, and the income of 4,500 represents the frontier of scientific and technological development and the hot issues that young people care about.
Recommended reason:
The new edition of "100,000 Why" adapts to the reading habits of contemporary teenagers in form and conforms to the publishing trend of similar books in the world. It is the first time to launch a color graphic version to show readers the "beauty and charm" of the frontier of contemporary science and technology with a large number of color pictures.
The "why" in the book is collected from children all over the country through various forms, and strives to grasp all the questions that children care about and want to ask.
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5. First discovery series, flashlight series, interesting life
The first discovery of series flashlights.
Author: Galima Children Publishing House
Publishing House: Relay Publishing House
Recommended index:
Douban score: 9.0
Content introduction:
"flashlight series" is divided into:
There are four sub-series: interesting animals, magical nature, interesting life and mysterious treasures.
In addition to the transparent film printed on one side, this series also adds a simple and magical tool-paper "flashlight".
Let the children hold the flashlight in the book, search carefully between the transparent film and the black pages, and explore the unknown world in an immersive way.
Recommended reason:
This is a set of creative children's books that illuminate the black pages of the book with a paper flashlight.
What is under the manhole cover? What's the secret in the Egyptian tomb? What are magical figures made of? In the dark, which huge machines are still working? What is the scenery under the city? What wonders and animals are there in the tropical rain forest? Underwater world, what treasure is sleeping? ...
Give your child a paper flashlight, which will become a telescope for scientific discovery, train children's subtle observation ability and cultivate their interest in exploration.
At the same time, it is also a set of interactive popular science books.
It challenges the traditional way of reading and allows children to witness, explore and discover the fun with their own eyes. The design of each game is very imaginative, and the discovery of every detail is unique.
This book subverts the traditional cognitive model, combining popular science with art, and combining learning with games. .
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6. "This is the twenty-four solar terms"
Expand and stimulate children's interest in natural history.
Authors: Gao Chunxiang, Shao Min.
Publishing House: Dolphin Publishing House
Recommended index:
Douban score: 8.5
Content introduction:
According to the chronological order of the 24 solar terms in a year, taking a small village in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River as an example, this paper tells the historical origin of this ancient invention, as well as its influence and enlightenment on our present life.
The whole set of books includes four picture books in spring, summer, autumn and winter, each of which introduces six solar terms.
The story in the book is based on the little girl Fang Ya's experience in her grandfather's house in the countryside, and extends to different knowledge sectors, such as:
The origin of solar terms, agricultural activities, astronomical climate, seventy-two climaxes, animals and plants, folk festivals, etc.
Radiate different regions in the north and south, and interpret solar terms from multiple angles; At the same time, it is equipped with observation and interactive content to guide children to record the changes of solar terms and select solar terms poems and proverbs suitable for children to read and remember.
Recommended reason:
This guidebook records the true story of the Fang family driving people around them into nature and exploring solar terms.
Children can not only follow Fang Ya's footsteps and see when to plant beans, harvest wheat and pick watermelons, but also try various interesting handicrafts and traditional games by themselves with reference to the illustrated demonstrations in the knowledge section, from which they can experience the wisdom of ancient working people and explore the precious wealth left by farming civilization.
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7. A brief history of everything
Write history for all things and make a biography for the universe.
Author: bill Blethen, USA.
Publishing House: Relay Publishing House
Recommended index:
Douban score: 8.8
Content introduction:
This book outlines the scientific process of people understanding the universe and exploring everything in the form of stories, and reproduces those exciting scenes in the history of scientific development:
From the construction of macro big bang theory to the establishment of micro quark particle theory; From the discovery of the law of universal gravitation to the birth of Einstein's theory of relativity; From the formation of Lyle's theory of geological gradual change to the perfection of plate tectonic theory; From Darwin's biological evolution theory to the implementation of human genetic engineering; From the emergence of glacier theory to the discussion of global warming ...
Lead us into the depths of the universe and appreciate the magic and beauty of the world.
Recommended reason:
This is an easy-to-understand and fascinating book about the development history of modern science.
With clear and humorous strokes, the author has collected many interesting stories from the Big Bang to the development of human civilization.
The book explains from the perspective of the history of scientific development, "Where do we come from? Who Are We? Where are we going? " This eternal proposition has been explained very accurately.
I hope to arouse children's interest in science and sow the seeds of love for science in their hearts.
This book is also a very readable work for adults, which can make people understand that science is not as mysterious and profound as people think, and it happens around us every day.
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8. The bird of philosophy flies.
Answer children's curiosity and guide them to think independently.
Author: [France] Bridget Rabe
Publishing House: Relay Publishing House
Recommended index:
Douban score: 8.7
Content introduction:
Philo always asks endless questions.
His questions often arouse heated discussion in the whole family:
Sometimes they talk and laugh, sometimes no one can find the answer, sometimes they quarrel fiercely, sometimes they are impatient with each other and lose their temper. ...
Fortunately, Philo has a good friend, Philo, who flies to the window every night to chat with Philo.
Recommended reason:
This is an introductory set of books, suitable for children who have questions and love to ask questions like Philo.
Children like to ask questions.
The child who loves to ask questions is a clever child, which shows that his little brain is thinking. He saw some phenomena that surprised or puzzled him and wanted to find the answer.
This set of children's books, Philosophical Birds Fly to Luo Series, focuses on children's social questioning, so that children can understand the basic truth of being a man.
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A child's way of thinking determines his learning efficiency.
Scientific research shows that children who have been exposed to science since childhood are more likely to understand knowledge in their future studies than children who have not been exposed to science.
Those children with "learning difficulties" not only lack knowledge points, but also lack understanding of scientific methods and systems, and lack scientific thinking and attitude.
May the scientific seeds planted by these excellent popular science books in children's hearts grow leaves, blossom and bear fruit as time goes by.