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In kindergarten teaching activities, how to arouse the environmental awareness of these young minds and how to effectively cultivate children's environmental awareness has become a topic of concern and a crucial issue in today's society. As an important part of basic education, kindergarten is the basic stage of lifelong comprehensive education and the key to implementing environmental education. Kindergartens should be duty-bound to educate their children on environmental protection in various forms, which is of far-reaching significance to nature and human beings. Then, how can kindergartens use "turning waste into treasure" to educate their children on environmental awareness?
First, create a beautiful environment and sprout children's awareness of environmental protection.
Create an atmosphere of environmental education, stimulate children's love for nature, and cultivate children's beautiful feelings of protecting the environment.
Environment plays a subtle role in human development. For young children, due to the particularity of their physical and mental development, it is determined that their emotions are based on intuition and visualization. Therefore, it is of great significance to create an educational environment consistent with educational purposes, give full play to children's sensory functions, and stimulate children's feelings of caring for and loving the environment. For this reason, we started with the environmental layout of kindergartens and launched activities to create a beautiful environment. We also designed a series of activities, such as "Understanding the Earth", "beautiful homeland" and "Little Guardian of the Earth", and organized children to watch videos and slides about "Beautiful Motherland" and introduce books about "environmental protection", so that children can initially understand the relationship between human beings and the environment, realize the close relationship between human beings and the environment and understand the beautiful environment. Through this series of activities, children have a preliminary understanding of the concept of "environmental protection".
However, there is a close relationship in practical education. It is feasible and effective to cultivate children's good behavior habits by using the content of environmental education. The content of environmental education is very extensive, from high-tech content to saving a drop of water and cultivating children's behavior habits. Such as: love animals and plants, don't spit everywhere, don't throw scraps of paper, speak softly, walk softly, put things down softly and so on. Kindergarten children are in the stage of rapid growth and development, in the initial stage of the formation of long knowledge, behavior habits and moral quality. The formation of good behavior habits will benefit people's life growth. However, how do we educate our children about environmental protection? How does the content of environmental education penetrate into children's daily activities? This requires our teachers not only to have a strong sense of environmental protection, but also to have a strong enthusiasm for work, to be conscientious everywhere, to be good at discovering and capturing the educational content that happens around children in all aspects of daily life, and to cultivate children's good behavior habits unconsciously, so as to achieve the educational effect of killing two birds with one stone and getting twice the result with half the effort.
Chen Heqin believes that education should "pay attention to the environment and make use of it". Children should have a good environment, including natural environment and social environment.
Educational environment is closely related to children's physical and mental development; Our educational environment should focus on educational objectives, adjust the original environment in time according to children's actual development level, combined with educational themes and seasonal characteristics; We can infiltrate environmental education into language teaching, social teaching and art teaching. In regional activities, a large number of waste materials can be put in, turning waste into treasure and making children feel that waste can be reused. We should make full use of the space inside and outside the classroom to provide children with all kinds of environmental knowledge and information, stimulate their interest and desire in learning, cultivate their initial awareness of environmental protection, make them realize the importance of environmental issues, pay attention to the surrounding environment, and realize that human survival is closely related to the environment, so as to cultivate their feelings of loving nature and make them willing to observe and explore nature and actively participate in environmental protection activities.
Second, through teaching activities, children's awareness of environmental protection should be infiltrated.
Every link in daily life can be used to educate children about environmental protection. For example, one meal a day, while cultivating children's good eating habits, combined with educational activities, further educate children on energy conservation. Don't be picky about food, don't waste food, let children know that Mr. Chen Heqin once said, "Restore the true colors of children's lives, give them the true colors of life, and let them learn in life." When educating children about environmental protection, we pay attention to infiltrating it into their daily lives, such as applying waste materials to morning activities and regional activities, so that children can learn environmental protection knowledge and establish environmental awareness in their lives. The rice grains eaten are all used by farmers' uncles.
1. In common sense activities, children can observe and understand the morphology and growth characteristics of various common animals and plants and their relationship with air, sunshine and water through pictures, objects, slides and videos, and know that air, sunshine and water are essential to the survival of animals and plants, and educate children to cherish water resources and keep indoor air fresh and sunny. We also let children observe the different situations of fish in clean water and sewage; Experience different feelings in clean and unclean environments; Listen to music and noise to children respectively and compare their feelings; Organize children to go to the roadside to observe the exhaust gas emitted by various vehicles, observe the smoke from the big chimney in the factory, and then let them feel the fresh air on the grass and between trees. Through these activities, children can realize the importance of keeping the water clean, the air fresh and the environment clean.
2. In language activities, teachers make their own teaching materials according to the teaching content, and convey simple environmental knowledge to children through pictures, videos, stories, nursery rhymes and other forms and means. For example, by telling the story of "Little Carp is really uncomfortable", let children know that pouring dirty water and dirty things into the river will pollute the river, and small animals in the river don't want to live in dirty water;
3. In the art education, the teacher designed a series of theme painting activities, and led the children to nature, guided them to feel the beauty of nature, and showed the beautiful scenery of nature. Combined with the theme activities, painting activities with themes such as "beautiful homeland" and "I love the earth" were carried out. Through this activity, children are trained to feel and express beauty.
4. Protect the environment in game activities and cultivate children's good behavior habits.
Games are one of children's favorite activities, so it is the easiest for children to accept environmental education through games. Let children naturally develop good behavior habits in activities.
For example, the sports game "Frogs Catch Pests" makes children understand that frogs are beneficial insects and can protect crops. We can't kill them, let alone eat their meat. Similarly, the game of "cat and mouse" makes children understand that we should not only love cats, but also persuade adults not to kill cats on the basis of a preliminary understanding of the relationship between biological chains. Thereby forming a good habit of caring for and caring for animals.
Another example: in the corner activities, the teacher designed the activities of peeling melon seeds and peanuts, and the children were very interested in this theme. Because this activity not only satisfies the child's appetite, but also exercises the small muscle groups of the child's hands, and at the same time cultivates the child's habit of loving labor. But more importantly, they also learned that we can put garbage such as melon seeds and peanut shells in the planting corner as fertilizer. Knowing that some domestic garbage can be recycled, children naturally develop the habit of not littering.
Third, enrich regional materials and infiltrate environmental education.
The natural corner is a small window for children to know nature. Children learn about nature by planting and raising animals and plants, which is similar to raising children's awareness of environmental protection and cultivating children's good behavior habits, so that children gradually realize that protecting animals and plants means protecting themselves.
The "Guidelines for Kindergarten Education" puts forward: "When carrying out environmental education for young children, we should use our brains and try our best to use intuitive images and lively forms that young children like as much as possible to stimulate their interest." Based on the above theoretical basis, when we educate children about environmental protection, we can stimulate their interest in recycling waste materials by letting them freely create waste materials and playing games with them.
Usually, I collect waste paper and cans with my children, instead of throwing them away as garbage, so that children and parents can collect some non-toxic waste together. I tried to set up an "environmental protection processing factory", in which all kinds of materials collected by children, such as cartons, bottle caps, leaves, shells, waste CDs, buttons, cloth, old newspapers, plastic wrap and drum cores, were placed separately, which was very interesting. In these "environmental production" activities, we learned some common environmental protection materials, developed a certain awareness of environmental protection, and used our brains to carry out creative decoration, which not only beautified our activity environment, but also played a role in publicizing and reducing pollution to parents. Another example is the various foods in the "Doll's House". We sewed buns and jiaozi with gauze and broken cotton, reported "seeds" with waste paper, cut the bubble film into squares, used it as tofu cake, and dried the white wool; We also made a small dining table with a big cake box and a "screen" with a waste paper box. In the "fitness area", we use Wangzai bottle as plum blossom camphor, waste wadded socks as meteor balls, small coke bottles as bowling balls, and calendar paper rolls and cardboard as frisbees. In the "education area", we use instant noodles as "graphic dolls" to feed the children with graphic dolls. In the "hands-on area", we decorate all kinds of plastic bottles and use old wool and ribbons to let the children learn to knit. In the "hospital", we use cardboard boxes and shoe boxes of various sizes as medicine boxes. In a word, no matter which neighborhood we are in, we put in waste materials more or less to let children know that garbage recycling can save energy and reduce pollution. Understand the value of waste materials, thus infiltrating environmental awareness and stimulating creative desire.
Thirdly, the infiltration of environmental education in education and teaching.
When designing teaching activities, I consciously infiltrated the content of environmental education. For example, in the activity with the theme of "Listen to what noise is", I led the children to investigate on the spot and let them listen to the noise on the road, the hawking in the market, the loud children's songs and the beautiful music. Through comparison and feeling, they can understand that good sound is music and bad sound is noise, so as to understand the influence of noise pollution on people's mood and hearing, and let them feel noise. Some children even associate car pollution with environmental pollution, such as dirty oil in high-rise buildings and rivers, deforestation and so on. According to the children's interests, I played the polluted clips with videos and slides, which left a deep impression on the children. After reading it, the children drew many polluted pictures with their own paintings: smoking windows, dirty oil floating on the river, small fish with their stomachs turned upside down, and the sun with tears. Finally, let's draw the earth together and put the polluted pictures on the wall. Later, the children greatly reduced the sound of the horn in the game. A child even told me that the car he was driving was not gasoline, so there was no exhaust pollution. In future activities, they used waste paper boxes and toothpaste boxes to make various cars. Through these suitable and rich contents, children have learned some knowledge about environmental protection and provided "food" for further environmental education.
Second, integrate environmental education into all aspects of daily activities.
Good environmental awareness and conscious environmental behavior can not be developed overnight. Only long-term persistence and subtle influence can achieve good results. Therefore, we attach great importance to cultivating children's environmental awareness and behavior in all aspects of daily life. For example, ask children not to play with water when washing their hands, and don't waste water; When using toys in regional activities, handle them gently and organize them consciously after playing; Take good care of tables and chairs at ordinary times and handle them with care; Don't scribble on the wall or touch it with dirty hands; Don't litter. Ask children to do more things for a clean and tidy environment, such as scrubbing tables and chairs, caring for natural corners for children on duty, and watering and feeding small animals.
In the usual activities, use games, teaching activities and nature to let children feel different sounds and different experiences of different sounds, so that children can distinguish which sounds are good and which are not. Let them understand: why do you want to move the tables and chairs gently? Why do you walk gently? Why not make noise? When children understand the truth, they will naturally do it more consciously and seriously. Over time, the formation of good behavior habits will come naturally.
Let children understand the importance of protecting the environment;
Focusing on thematic environmental education, we can infiltrate environmental education knowledge into children's daily life and various teaching activities. We can take environmental education as the central point and radiate environmental knowledge with this central point, so as to infiltrate colorful environmental education content into various teaching and children's daily life. For example, "Where does the garbage come from" and "What will happen if there is more garbage?" "Use your head to turn waste into treasure" and so on. Through exhibitions, paintings and waste utilization, children can make works of art and carry out interesting activities, such as visits, conversations, puppet shows, small experiments and games. Let children know the pollution of garbage to the environment and know that to manage garbage well and protect the environment, they must start from me and gain environmental protection knowledge from their own feelings.
Second, use a variety of forms to educate children:
1, with the theme of "protecting our homeland", educate children to care for the environment;
2. Educate children to save water with the theme of "What to do without water";
3. Choose a few small environmental guards in the kindergarten;
4. Use the practical "environmental protection box" to mobilize children to protect the surrounding environment;
5. Ask parents to cooperate and expand their children's knowledge of environmental protection.
Third, organize children to participate in practice and enhance environmental awareness.
Organize children to carry out "skillful hands" activities. We mobilize children and parents to collect all kinds of safe and clean waste items, such as coke cans, waste plastic boxes, paper tubes, CDs and so on. And through simple processing, it becomes a useful item for daily education and games in kindergartens; For example, waste paper boxes are used to make various forms of transportation, and old handkerchiefs are used to make parachutes for children to play in outdoor activities. These activities not only turn waste into treasure, reduce environmental pollution, but also exercise children's hands-on ability and cultivate children's good hygiene habits of not littering.
Fourth, carry out activities in conjunction with Environmental Protection Day.
On the anniversary of environmental protection, environmental education in kindergartens permeates the one-day activities, and educational activities are carried out around the anniversary to enrich children's environmental knowledge and enhance their environmental awareness. For example, on March 12 Arbor Day, our class carried out the theme activity of "Understanding the real connection of green, caring for green life and protecting green home" to let children know the role of trees and the serious consequences of cutting down trees; On Earth Day on April 22nd, children will learn the basic knowledge of the earth by enjoying pictures and watching videos, and know that there is only one earth. Caring for the earth means caring for ourselves. Then, theme activities such as "Children's Environmental Art Exhibition" and "Little Master of the Environment" will be carried out, so that children can show themselves as little masters of the earth by painting, playing games and decorating walls. For example, when I decorate the wall decoration "Gourd Baby and Its Friends", I asked the children to draw blue sky and white clouds with their own crayons, and cut lovely animals and plants with their dexterous hands to decorate the wall, which not only cultivated the children's practical ability, but also made them feel the beauty of nature. Through various activities, let children know that environmental protection should start from themselves, start from small things, protect the environment and protect the earth. All these have improved children's moral consciousness, moral emotion and moral behavior.
Reggio's educational theory: let children interact with the external environment through their own active efforts and constantly gain rich experience, so as to realize self-construction and development. In carrying out environmental education, we should inspire and guide children to know about waste materials-collect waste materials-use waste materials to create, cultivate children's innovative ability and improve their environmental awareness.
Third, strengthen family ties and do a good job in environmental education.
Children live in society and family, and parents' words and deeds directly affect their words and deeds. Therefore, in the activity, we let parents know the meaning, content and methods of environmental protection through parents' garden and parent-teacher conference combined with daily conversation, so as to obtain parents' cooperation in environmental education activities. If you want your parents not to smoke, try to keep the family environment clean; Protect frogs and don't eat frogs; Don't step on the grass, don't pick flowers, don't litter when you go out to play, and set an example for your children with your own environmental behavior.
Kindergarten education should be combined with family education and social education: parents must be supported to carry out environmental education in kindergartens, so that parents can understand the necessity and feasibility of environmental education for their children. Parents are required to cooperate with us to influence children with their own words and deeds, educate them and help them develop good environmental habits. Parents are required to take their children into nature more often, on the one hand, let them appreciate the beauty of nature, cultivate their feelings of loving nature and absorb rich environmental knowledge; On the other hand, let children know about environmental pollution, feel the voice of attaching importance to environmental protection, and constantly enhance environmental awareness.
Five, the close relationship between kindergartens and families and communities is a strong guarantee for environmental education.
Family is an important partner of kindergarten. In line with the principles of respect, equality and cooperation, strive for parents' understanding and support and help parents improve their educational ability. The purpose of kindergarten environmental education is to "educate a child, influence a family and drive the whole society". The participation of parents and communities in the decision-making, supervision and inspection of environmental protection activities is very beneficial to stimulate children's innovative activities, cultivate children's awareness of independent participation and cooperation, promote environmental education and form good environmental habits. Therefore, when carrying out environmental education, we attach great importance to tapping parents' educational resources, infiltrating environmental education, changing parents' educational concepts and becoming active participants in kindergarten environmental education. For example, parents are invited to attend special lectures on environmental education in kindergartens, publicity columns are arranged, tabloids and proposals are written, the significance of environmental education is publicized to parents, the information of environmental education is transmitted, and ways and means of environmental education for children are taught; Let parents know the goals and contents of environmental education in kindergartens; Participate in the curriculum decision-making and education process of kindergarten environmental education; Parents' awareness of environmental education has been greatly improved. Parents who take their children to the park will consciously guide their children to pay attention to environmental protection and other environmental protection behaviors.
Due to various reasons, it is common to ignore environmental education in society. Some teachers and parents themselves lack environmental protection knowledge, awareness and habits of environmental protection. Some people know how to do it, but the actual actions are really going their own way. These phenomena directly affect children's environmental protection knowledge, consciousness (emotion) and behavior habits.
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In today's increasingly serious environmental problems, environmental education, as the starting point of quality education, will be related to whether our next generation can have a real green home. In today's 2 1 century, it is everyone's responsibility for you and me to arouse the awareness of environmental protection in young minds!