On the Importance of Kindergarten Environmental Education (2)

Importance of environmental education in kindergartens Paper 3

On the necessity of environmental education in kindergartens

Environmental education has a unique function and role in developing children's intelligence and promoting children's personality development, which has become an important situation in the reform of early childhood education. Kindergartens should create a good material and spiritual environment for children, so that children can feel happy and gain common sense and skills in life; Become healthy, lively, children with wide interests and good behavior habits.

Keywords environment kindergarten environment layout

When it comes to "environment", everyone is familiar with it, because we live in an environment all the time, which can be described as ubiquitous, large and small, and kindergarten environment is an environment we are familiar with. Kindergarten is a place where children grow up happily, and everything in kindergarten will affect their physical and mental development.

We often say that "parents are children's first teachers", but today, the creation of kindergarten environment, which people have always attached importance to, has been raised to an important position and is known as "children's third teachers"! A good kindergarten environment should be a three-dimensional, colorful and attractive silent textbook. However, after visiting and studying abroad for many times, it is found that there are many problems in the specific creation process of some kindergartens: < P > First, they only seek beauty and emphasize the decorative decoration of the environment. Some kindergartens hang exquisite and high-grade murals on the walls. These "high above", lacking childlike interest and innocence, and too adult "fine" can not attract children's attention and interest. How can this meaningless wall decoration serve children who are the main body of environmental education? Obviously, it is completely unreasonable to match with children who are only about one meter tall, which will make our educational subjects lose an opportunity to receive education in vain, and even the beautiful wall decoration can only be a decoration beyond the children's vision.

Second, the form is single, ignoring the participation of children. Kindergarten environment layout should create a beautiful and happy atmosphere, so as to stimulate children's emotions and make them like to associate with people, things and things. However, some teachers create an environment that blindly pursues the beauty of form. In order to prevent children from being "destroyed", some teachers insist that they can only look and not move, which has become a flashy stop. In this way, there is a serious lack of content and opportunities for children to participate in activities.

thirdly, it remains unchanged, ignoring the educational nature of environmental creation. In order to save time and effort, save decoration expenses, some teachers only do environmental layout once a semester or even once a year, regardless of whether their layout is educational or not, whether it has lost its timeliness, and whether it has been "eclipsed", making it a "permanent decoration", and regard it as a good way to save materials. In fact, because of its lack of variability, it can't deliver a fresh educational message to children in time. Over time, children will lose their original interest in it and turn a blind eye to it.

Then, how can we play the educational role of environmental creation activities, strive to create an environmental atmosphere suitable for the theme activities, and let environmental creation become the third teacher for children? Our garden attaches great importance to environmental creation, and regularly or irregularly organizes all teachers to actively carry out environmental creation competitions. Through continuous exploration and study, I have also found some creative experiences:

1. Let children and their works integrate into the environment, making the environment scientific and artistic.

Every child's work is the crystallization of their wisdom. To this end, according to the types of children's works in each activity, I will design different styles of layouts in advance. When the children's works are completed, I will instruct the children to paste the marked works in the appropriate position by themselves. When all the works are posted, a unique layout will be formed. For example, for the children's work "Sunflower" in the middle class, I first made a trunk of a big tree out of cardboard, then made two or three beautiful butterflies out of colored cardboard, and then instructed each child's flowers to stick around the trunk in an orderly way, and a layout that condensed the wisdom of all children was completed. Children are excited to see their own works turn into a "sun flower tree". They constantly appreciate and discuss with each other, and unconsciously integrate individuals into the collective, which not only shows themselves, but also shows the success of others.

2. Let the environment change with the seasons.

in different seasons and seasons, the surrounding environment is constantly changing. Let children perceive the transformation and change of seasons by changing different environments. For example, when spring comes, let children observe and feel spring through outdoor activities before making activities. Children will paint and cut and paste related works according to what they see, hear and think. "Black tadpoles, swallows with scissors, tender grass, yellow winter jasmine, and a gurgling river after the ice and snow melt" ...... everyone's works are combined to form a beautiful picture of spring. Similarly, pink lotus blooms in summer, green trees and red flowers, fruitful autumn, yellow leaves fluttering, snowy winter and vast land are the key points of environmental layout. These outstanding works with obvious seasonal characteristics make children see at a glance and remember them deeply because of their personal production experience.

3. Make the regional environment live.

In regional activities, provide rich semi-finished and finished materials for children, and put in rich materials related to the theme. Choose the contents that children can see, touch and be interested in in their lives, and put them in the environment such as regions and natural corners to satisfy children's curiosity and desire to explore things around them. For example, there are many interesting induction toys, car toys and wind-up toys collected in the science area. Children's concept of science is abstract. When they sow science with their own hands, teachers need not say much, and children will gain a lot. Put a large number of scientific and technological books in the library area, and put books, pictures and information photos of celebrities and great men. Illustrated with pictures and texts, it deeply infects young children.

When the regional environment is living, an autonomous and relaxed cognitive environment is formed around children. They make progress in thinking in communication and develop rapidly in cooperation, which is very conducive to cultivating children's scientific spirit and humanistic spirit.

Kindergarten environment is an important factor of explicit education and implicit expression of children, and it is an indispensable element of kindergarten education. The environment is accompanied by the growth of children, but also shows their little progress. Although the environment is small, it shows wisdom, nourishes the soul, and the explorer grows. Children are experiencing happiness in front of their own works, showing off their achievements and enjoying their own happy world.

In short, children's world should be beautiful. In kindergarten, every landscape and corner touched by their eyes should be beautiful. A kind of beauty that has been carefully decorated without showing traces, originated from nature and surpassed nature, makes their eyes understand and love beauty after countless times of pure beauty color, makes their hands become dexterous in the process of making beauty and creating beauty, and makes their hearts become pure and beautiful after countless times of appreciation. We should reasonably and comprehensively organize all aspects of educational content, and penetrate into the activities of children's daily life, and give full play to the interaction of environmental education means. Let the limited activity environment become a ladder for children's infinite growth.

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[4] (Su) Suhomlinski. "Suggestions for Teachers", compiled by Du Diankun, Education Science Press

The Importance of Environmental Education in Kindergartens 4

On the Importance of Environmental Education for Children

Abstract In the Outline of Kindergarten Education, it is proposed that kindergarten education should let children? Love animals and plants, care about the surrounding environment, be close to nature, cherish natural resources, and have a preliminary awareness of environmental protection. ? Therefore, it is the need of social situation and educational reform to carry out environmental education activities in kindergartens, which is more suitable for the characteristics of children's physical and mental development. Children's environmental education is an integral part of environmental education. Based on many years' teaching experience, the author makes a comprehensive and in-depth exposition of children's environmental education from various angles, such as kindergarten environment, game environment, home environment, experience environment and natural environment, which has certain reference significance for improving children's environmental education level.

Keywords early childhood education; Environmental education; Spiritual environment; Cultivate awareness

Children's environmental education is an integral part of environmental education. Green kindergarten? Cultivating people's environmental awareness is a long-term systematic work, an important content to improve the quality of future citizens, a future-oriented cause and a new topic for preschool teachers. We should not only make children know the environment, but also cultivate their attitudes and actions to protect the environment.

Environmental education has the characteristics of knowledge, interest, initiative, inquiry, comprehensiveness and multi-dimensionality. Therefore, children should be educated actively, easily and naturally from perceptual knowledge and their own activities by choosing the people who have environmental problems around them. To this end, our garden regards environmental education as an important carrier and an organic part of quality education, and carries out environmental education for children in a down-to-earth and unremitting manner, which enables us to have deeper thinking and exploration in the practice and research of environmental education.

first, create a material and spiritual environment to meet children's psychological needs

children are curious about the world around them. They are active subjects who have certain physical and mental development characteristics and interact with the surrounding environment. We should take creating an environment as part of the education process, strive to make every wall in the garden speak, and give full play to the function of environmental education in every corner, and pay attention to turning decorative things into learning environments for children. Change the static environment into a dynamic environment, and through the creation and arrangement of teachers and students, stimulate children's interest in the environment and desire to explore, and actively interact with the environment to become the master of the environment. The beautiful, clean and vibrant garden environment has inspired children to care for the environment. First of all, pay attention to the age characteristics and age differences of children, and pay attention to the creation of a safe and hygienic living environment, so that children will feel safe and let go of their activities. Establishing a spiritual environment of equality, democracy, tolerance and support between adults and children will make children feel psychological security and freedom in the kindergarten environment, and feel the care, attention, acceptance and understanding between teachers, students and peers.

2. Infiltrate environmental education in observing and experiencing life

Observation is also the most effective way to expand knowledge. As the first step of children's environmental education, we should let children know that everything is interrelated and inseparable through a lot of observation. Environmental education should be included in the work plan of the park and class, and observation, recording, inspection and evaluation should be carried out frequently. Environmental education in kindergartens should not be an independent subject. Rich and colorful environmental education contents should be infiltrated into the teaching, activities and daily life of various subjects, and carried out through games and various lively and interesting activities. The cultivation of environmental awareness is also a process of forming habits. At ordinary times, we often remind children to keep indoor and outdoor hygiene, educate children to care for public property and know how to save resources.

In outdoor activities, remind children to take good care of large toys, learn to recognize some slogans to protect the environment, and educate children not to climb and pick flowers, not to spit everywhere, and to maintain a beautiful environment. When eating, educate children not to be picky about food and waste, so that children can understand the benefits of food to human body and the harm that waste will cause. When they see others littering peel scraps in public places, they are advised to pick them up or remind others to pick them up and put them in the shell box, and let children know that we should use disposable goods less or refuse to use it, so that they can understand that it is a waste of resources and a pollution to the earth.

In the hot summer sun, let children experience the feeling of being exposed to the sun and being in the under the greenwood tree of trees, and then tell them about the close relationship between the forest and us. When children are thirsty, let them talk about their feelings of thirst, and then let them talk about their feelings after drinking water. On this basis, tell children about the relationship between water, an environmental factor, and human beings. Let children deeply feel that they can't leave the environment all the time through the experience of various natural and social environmental elements, and gradually cultivate children's feelings about the human living environment, laying a good ideological and moral foundation for protecting and transforming the environment.

3. Environmental education in nature

Observation is also the most effective way to expand knowledge. As the first step of children's environmental education, we should let children know that everything is interrelated and inseparable through a lot of observation. Therefore, we let children leave nature to share a healthy and clean environment and experience the impact of environmental pollution on themselves; Observe the properties and uses of sand, stone and soil; Observe the law of wind, rain and cloud weather changes; Observe the phenomena of light and electricity? Stimulate children's interest in natural phenomena and cultivate children's exploration and love for the environment. The connection with nature is an important factor to promote children's ecological understanding, and the means to acquire environmental knowledge are: Nature society is our living teaching material. ? Therefore, we actively lead children out of the activity room, out of the garden gate, and take the nature society as the environmental education classroom.

We lead children to know nature and the surrounding living environment purposefully and in a planned way, so that children can freely and independently get in touch with the environment and get familiar with it. Organize children to go to nature, so that children can appreciate the benefits of flowers, grass and trees to human beings and animals in contact with nature, thus cultivating the feelings of cherishing and caring for the environment. In the whole observation activity, it fully embodies that children are the masters of learning and children and the environment? Dialogue? , so that children can interact with the environment and? Dialogue? I feel that science and technology are happening in it. From these activities closely related to nature and life experience, children have a stronger love for nature.

four, home synchronization, community cooperation for environmental education

parents are the closest people to their children, and their words, deeds and hobbies will exert a subtle influence on children. Parents are also children's first teachers, and reaching an educational agreement between family environment and kindergarten can help children further understand environmental knowledge, help children develop and form good environmental behavior, and achieve good results. The active participation and cooperation of parents is a powerful guarantee for developing environmental education.

In practice, we deeply feel that it is not enough to carry out environmental education for children only by kindergarten education, but also by the support and cooperation of parents and society. Therefore, in environmental and scientific education, we always pay attention to the use of parents' resources, provide opportunities for parents to participate in kindergarten education and teaching activities, and publicize and communicate with parents by using kindergarten bulletin boards, home contact manuals, home bridges, wall arrangements, etc., so as to make parents clear the importance of environmental education, so as to understand and support the environmental education work in our park.

V. Several problems to be paid attention to

(1) Children's workers must enhance their sense of responsibility, urgency and consciousness in environmental education.

(2) Children's environmental education must