Children's and adult creativity project "journey to the underwater world." Project “Amazing underwater world Project underwater world for senior group

Senior teacher Norina Yulia Valentinovna
Educator Osinkina Oksana Viktorovna,
children and parents of the preparatory group

The project method in teaching preschoolers is a preparatory stage for children’s transition to school. The main goal of the project method in kindergarten is the development of a free creative personality. It gives the child the opportunity to synthesize acquired knowledge, develop creativity and communication skills, which allows him to successfully adapt to the changed situation of schooling.

For children of senior preschool age, it is advisable to highlight in the educational process cognitive and research activities directly aimed at understanding the structure of the world (things, phenomena that are in certain relationships and connections), ordering, systematizing ideas about the environment.

The origins of cognitive-research activity are found in the free experimentation with objects and phenomena characteristic of a preschooler, in search activity that answers the questions: why? For what? how does the world work? Why do you need to be careful about the environment?

Satisfying his curiosity in the process of active cognitive and research activity, the child, on the one hand, expands his ideas about the world, on the other hand, begins to master the fundamental cultural forms of cognition - means of differentiation and ordering of experience: cause-and-effect, spatial and temporal relationships that allow connecting individual representations into a holistic picture of the world. In addition, cognitive and research activities develop his attention, thinking, speech, arouses interest in the world around him, develops the ability to make discoveries and be surprised by them, and also improves qualities necessary in later life such as observation, diligence, and accuracy.

Our project “Underwater World” began with a question from children about why they began to bring water from the store to the group for drinking, why can’t they drink water from the tap? Where does the water in the tap come from and why does it never run out? Where does the dirty water that we pour into the sink go?

After a conversation about water, how water gets into homes, how people pollute water bodies, and how drinking water is cleaned, the children began to think about the fact that their residents suffer from water pollution. A problem has arisen: how can people help underwater inhabitants?

The environmental problem is one of the most important in the modern world. The future of humanity depends on the level of environmental culture of each person, his competent, active position in solving pressing problems. Therefore, it is important to lay the foundations of environmental culture in preschool childhood, when children learn about the world and emotionally respond to troubles occurring in nature and around them.

Objective of the project: to introduce children to one of the components of nature - water, without which life on planet Earth is impossible, to form a conscious, careful attitude towards water as an important natural resource.

Project type: research and creative, medium duration (1 month), integrated.

Project objectives:

  • clarify children's knowledge about water, its basic properties, significance in the life of living beings, clarify children's knowledge about the class of fish, deepen their understanding of a reservoir as a fish habitat, clarify their understanding of the living conditions of aquarium fish;
  • encourage children to compare, search for similarities and differences, connections between things and phenomena, for verbal analysis and reasoning, develop observation skills, the ability to use evidence and defend their point of view;
  • develop the cognitive initiative of preschoolers (curiosity), independent research activities through partnership with an adult;
  • expand the child’s horizons, taking him beyond immediate practical experience into a broader spatial and temporal perspective;
  • arouse interest in the life of fish, a desire to learn more about them, and cultivate a desire to care for aquarium fish.

Stages:

  1. Drawing up a plan - a project diagram.
  2. Immersion in the project (Appendix 1, 2, 3).
  3. Practical part (album “Water Element”, children’s drawings, summary of the complex lesson “Rivers, Streams and Seas”).
  4. Presentation of the project (Appendix 4, composition “Seabed”).

At the first stage, we drew up a project plan. To this end, the following issues were discussed with the children:

  • What knowledge will help solve the problem?
  • How can this knowledge be obtained?
  • What can be done to solve this problem.

The teacher’s task at this stage is to unobtrusively guide the children’s work:

  • help choose the most relevant and feasible task for children for a certain period of time;
  • suggest what items and accessories can be used;
  • plan what activities, games and other types of children's activities can be included in the project plan.

During the discussion, the children proposed various options for activities, games, and actions that would answer the questions that interested us. All children's proposals were drawn up in the form of a diagram.

Plan – scheme of the “Underwater World” project

CENTER OF MOVEMENT

We will play various outdoor games:

  • outdoor games “Crucian carp and pike”, Brook”
  • simulation game “We are droplets”
  • sketches “In the swamp”, “The sea is agitated” SCIENCE CENTER
  • consider the globe,
  • consider books, pictures, postcards about the underwater world
  • Let's do experiments with water: transparency, fluidity, change of state, water pressure, salt and fresh water, wave formation, water cycle in nature NATURE CENTER
  • Let's watch a film about the inhabitants of the Volga River,
  • Let's observe the inhabitants of the aquarium: “Who lives in our aquarium”, “How fish swim and how they rest”, “How fish breathe”
  • Let's take care of the aquarium - “Let's put things in order in the aquarium.”

BOOK CENTER

  • we will ask riddles about the inhabitants of rivers, seas and oceans;
  • we will read poems about reservoirs and their inhabitants, we will read books about underwater inhabitants: A. Glebova “Pebbles”, G. Snegirev “Little Monster”, “Brave Stickleback”, “Octopus”
  • we will read fairy tales, epics “Sadko”, “Snow Maiden”,
  • make up stories based on pictures

Underwater world GAME CENTER

We will play various board games:

  • didactic games “Where, whose house”, “Recognize the fish by description”, “Whose tail (torso, head)”, “How does the fish appear”
  • role-playing game “Travel by boat”

CENTER SKILLFUL HANDLES

  • we will make inhabitants of the underwater world from natural materials and paper,
  • we will design the composition “Seabed” ART CENTER
  • let's draw an aquarium,
  • Let's draw tales about the inhabitants of the sea;
  • Let's make an applique "Dolphins"
  • consider paintings depicting rivers, seas, oceans;
  • We will listen to music (from the series “Oceanic”, “Sounds of Nature”) KNOWLEDGE CENTER
  • Lesson on familiarization with the surrounding world “Water around us”
  • Lesson to familiarize yourself with your surroundings: “A droplet walks in a circle”
  • Lesson on familiarization with fiction.

Reading the story: “How people offended the river.”

  • Conversation on the basics of safe living “Water is a friend - water is an enemy”

Results of the “Underwater World” project.

By the end of the “Underwater World” project, the children of the preparatory group learned:

  • that water in nature exists in various forms: reservoirs, precipitation (rain, snow, hail, dew), icicle, cloud, etc.;
  • the main properties of water are liquid, transparent, colorless, odorless and tasteless, dissolves some substances, has density, pressure;
  • water in nature can move from one state to another (ice - water - steam), there is a water cycle in nature;
  • there are reasons for water pollution, the simplest ways to purify it;
  • how animals and plants adapted to live in water, learned the classification of fish, their habitat, their structure, habits, nutrition, the difference between sea and river inhabitants.
  • independently explain the connection of facts (they use simple causal reasoning because: objects are visible in the water, because the water is transparent);
  • independently establish the simplest cause-and-effect relationships and relationships (if..., then...: if it’s frosty outside, then the water freezes; if the water is well purified, then it can be drunk);
  • do simple experiments using a verbal description or a model; upon completion of the experiment, draw appropriate conclusions;
  • notice changes in the aquarium that worsen the life of its inhabitants, care for aquarium fish.

The children in our group began to pay attention to whether the tap was closed properly, and if they noticed that water was dripping from the tap, they reported it to adults. We also noticed that children began to pour less water to drink, explaining that they did not want to pour the remaining water into the sink.

With great interest, the children began to be on duty in the corner of nature: they were careful when watering flowers, trying not to spill water from the watering can. They carefully monitor the aquarium fish and have come up with a name for each fish.

They carry out simple experiments independently and tell each other the results of these experiments. They bring new books to the group about rivers, seas, oceans, and sea voyages, look at the pictures with pleasure, and share their impressions of what they saw.

At the end of the project, the children had a question about what and who else needs people’s help, what needs to be done to make our planet Earth better, cleaner. Therefore, we decided to learn more about the life of animals, birds, and plants. These topics will become the topics of new projects.

Annex 1.

Outdoor games, sketches.

1. Outdoor game “Crucian carp and pike”. One child is chosen as a pike, the rest are divided into “pebbles” and “crucian carp”, which swim inside the circle. At the signal “pike”, it runs into the circle, trying to catch crucian carp. And the “crucian carp” are in a hurry to hide behind the “pebbles”. The crucian carp caught by the pike go outside the circle. The game is repeated with another “pike”.

2. Low mobility game “Stream”. Children stand in pairs, one after another, hold hands and raise them, forming a hoop. One child, the leader, goes through the gate and chooses any player from the pair, leading him along to the end of the corridor. The child left without a partner becomes the leader.

3. Game - simulation “We are droplets.” Give children paper crowns with droplet designs. The teacher puts on the same crown with a pattern of a cloud - mother, and the children are her teardrop children. The guys surround the cloud mother and dance around her. Then she lets them go for a walk on the ground, gives instructions to water the plants, wash the ground and come back. Children scatter to the sides, then gather together, stand one after another, forming streams. Then, at the teacher’s command, the streams join together to form a river. The river flows into the ocean (children make a wide circle). Mother Cloud reminds them that they are droplets and calls them home. The children spin around, one by one returning to the cloud. The circle is closed.

4. Sketch “The sea is agitated.” Goal: expand the content of the game, develop imagination, creativity, plasticity of movements.

5. Sketch “In the swamp”. Children, as the teacher explains, imitate the habits of animals living in the swamp through expressiveness and plasticity of movements.

Appendix 2.

A series of observations of the inhabitants of the aquarium.

1. “Who lives in our aquarium.” Goal: identify all the inhabitants of the aquarium (fish, snails, plants), their names, clarify the living conditions of the inhabitants of the aquarium (lots of water, soil in which plants grow, lighting, compressor, feeder). Clarify the features of the external structure of fish.

2. “How fish swim and rest.” Purpose: to clarify that fish move in water easily, freely, and can swim in different directions. Their streamlined shape, smooth body surface, and fins help them move. The fish uses its tail to make turns. Show children that fish need rest and sleep. They rest standing motionless near the grass bushes, at the bottom, and sleep with their eyes open.

3. “How fish breathe.” Purpose: To give an idea that fish need air to live. They breathe air in the water using gills. The gill wings that cover them are located on the sides of the head. They constantly open and close - this is how the fish breathes.

4. “Clean up the aquarium.” Goal: To learn to notice changes in the condition of the aquarium - dirt on the bottom, plaque on the glass, decrease in water, dust and stains on the glass, to evaluate these changes as a deterioration in the living conditions of aquatic inhabitants. To form a desire to take part in the work of adults, to receive satisfaction from joint work. Instill a sense of responsibility and a desire to justify trust. To foster activity, initiative, independence, accuracy, and friendliness.

Appendix 3.

Experiments with water.

1. “What will we see through the water?”

Goal: to consolidate children’s knowledge about the property of water - transparency, through the consolidation of geometric shapes and colors.

Equipment: basin with water, geometric shapes of different colors.

Questions for children: what is in the basin (water). What can you tell us about water? Then throw the cube into the basin. What happened to him? (Fell to the bottom). Is it visible? What colour is he?

Invite the children to take turns putting various objects into the water. While one child lowers the object, the other children close their eyes.

Question for children: why do we see all these objects even through the water? (The water is clear).

2. “How to give Ivanushka clean water to drink?”

Goal: get acquainted with water purification processes in various ways.

Equipment: paper napkin, paper funnel, rag, rubbish, starch, containers.

Invite the children to see how cloudy the water is in the jar. It needs to be cleaned so that Ivanushka can drink it without fear of getting sick. How to make a cleaning device?

Children come up with different options for water purification. Invite children to make various cleaning devices - filters (from a paper funnel, a rag, a paper napkin). Children make filters and test their effect. Find out which filter purifies water better?

3. “Water pressure.”

Goal: to introduce children to the property of water - pressure.

Equipment: plastic bottle, knitting needle, colored water.

Tell children that water has a wonderful property: it always tends to flow as low as possible. Have children encountered this property? What did it look like?

Water puts pressure on any object immersed in it. The greater the depth, the stronger the water pressure. The deeper a diver dives, the more pressure the water puts on him. You can estimate water pressure by the force with which the stream escapes from the hole. To do this, you need to poke three holes in the bottle and fill the bottle with water. Invite children to think about where the water pressure is greater at the top or bottom.

4. “Floats or sinks.”

Goal: to introduce children to the property of water - density, to show the difference between fresh and salt water.

Equipment: two transparent glasses, warm water, salt, raw egg.

Tell children that salt water is denser than fresh water, therefore it is easier to swim in salt water, since water holds objects or a person better, as if pushing objects out of the water. Invite children to dissolve as much salt as possible in one glass of water, then try to lower an egg into this glass, then transfer the egg to a glass of plain, fresh water. What happened to the egg in salt water, what happened in fresh water? Lead the children to the conclusion that salt water is denser than fresh water.

Appendix 4.

Quiz "What do we know about fish."

Goal: To repeat and generalize children’s ideas about the underwater inhabitants of rivers and seas, to evoke a feeling of joy from collective play, and to intensify cognitive interest. Create conditions for the realization of ideas about the world in creative activity.

Task 1. Remember proverbs and sayings about the water world.

  • The fish looks for where it is deeper, and the person looks for where it is better.
  • The fish rots from the head.
  • Silent as a fish.
  • And you can’t catch crucian carp from a pond without difficulty.
  • From a bony fish, the ear is sweet.
  • In the absence of fish and cancer, fish.
  • Only crayfish go back.

Task 2. Remember fairy tales in which aquatic inhabitants are found.

  • The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish
  • Mermaid
  • Aibolit
  • Confusion
  • Moidodyr
  • By magic
  • Sadko

Task 3. Musical break.

Plastic sketch “The sea is agitated”.

Task 4. “Name the fish that live in our reservoirs.

Task 5. “Collect and name.”

Each team must collect as many fish images as possible from the parts and name them correctly.

Task 6. “Guess the riddles.”

Look, the house is standing
It's filled to the brim with water.
Without windows, but not gloomy,
Transparent on four sides.
In this house the residents are -
All are skilled swimmers.
(Aquarium)

In the wild sea - ocean
The terrible fish lives
She has a big belly
A mouth with terrible fangs.
(Shark)

Very good-natured
I am soft, obedient,
But when I want,
I will even wear out a stone.
(Water)

In calm weather we are nowhere to be found.
The wind blows - we run on the water.
(Waves)

He was friendly with the sailors,
What is it still famous for?
Which of the sea animals
Is the monument open in the world?
(Dolphin)

I kept clinging to the bottom
In the darkness of the sea depths.
I tried to be invisible -
Turned into a flat pancake.
(Flounder)

Through the sea - ocean
A miracle - a giant - is swimming,
Hiding my mustache in my mouth,
Stretched out for a mile.
(Whale)

Is it winter or autumn?
In the depths of the native river
We wear vests proudly,
We are brave sailors.
(Perches)

And at the bottom of the deep sea,
And at the very shores
Which fish are electrocuted?
Drives enemies away?
(Scat)

Task 7. Outdoor game “Crucian carp and pike”.

Summing up the quiz.

List of sources used.

  1. Natural science, fine arts, artistic work: thematic planning of classes / author.-comp. V.Yu. Dyachenko and others - Volgograd: Teacher, 2007.
  2. Culturological approach to the socio-psychological development of a preschool child / author. Pelenkova L.L. – Samara, 2008.
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Short-term project “Underwater World”

Teacher of a general education group for children of senior preschool ageSolomina O.V.

Teacher of additional education on Lego constructionAndrianova D.V.

MBDOU "Kindergarten No. 32 in Vyborg"

Project participants: children of senior preschool age

Project timeframe: 11.04.16 – 15.04.16

Target: familiarizing children with the flora and fauna of the cold (Baltic) and warm (Black) seas.

Tasks:

Educational objectives:

    introduce you to the diversity of the underwater world and its significance for the entire surrounding world;

    introduce the structure of the inhabitants of the seas.

Developmental tasks:

    develop the ability to compare and analyze;

    develop imagination and perception in the process of observation;

    develop vocabulary when familiarizing yourself with the underwater world;

    develop the ability to find and reproduce the features of the flora and fauna of the seas in constructive activities, using various materials (paper, plasticine, cream tubes, various types of construction sets, etc.)

Educational tasks:

    cultivate a caring attitude towards nature;

    cultivate independence, hard work, curiosity;

The project is based on the support of children's initiative (question: “Who are sea animals?”)

Stages of work on the project:

Preparatory:

    formulation of the problem based on children's initiative;

    development of an action plan;

    creating a developmental environment in the group;

    collection and accumulation of material on the topic “Underwater World”;

    informing and familiarizing parents with the topic of the project;

    inviting a group guest to conduct a master class on the topic “Stained Glass Fish”.

Basic:

    involving children in participating in the project;

    joint activities of children and teachers.

Final:

    creation of a collective work “Corner of the Sea”.

Table 1

Plan of activities carried out within the framework of the “Underwater World” project

11.04.16

2. Design from paper.

Making fish using stained glass.

12.04.16

3. Artistic creativity: modeling “Seabed” - making sea flora from plasticine in various ways (twisting, pulling, pinching, stacking, using a frame - pencils, tubes).

13.04.16

4. Lesson on designing from Lego - the “Seabed” (creating an imitation of the seabed and its inhabitants)

14.04.16

5. Collective work “Corner of the Sea” (creating a composition from Lego buildings and stained glass fish)

15.04.16

Conclusion:

During the implementation of the project, children mastered a new method of making fish from tubes and using stained glass techniques. Children also gained new knowledge about the underwater world, which they use in independent play activities.

Bibliography:

    S. Sakharnov “Who lives in the sea?”

    S. Sakharnov "Sea Tales"

    S. Sakharnov "At the bottom of the sea"

    A. Tambiev "Who lives in the sea?"

    I. Akimushkin "Who flies without wings"

    G.H. Andersen "The Little Mermaid"

    Sounds of the sea, sea inhabitants

(Internet resource)

Norina Yulia Valentinovna

Project Manager:

Norina Yulia Valentinovna

Institution:

MBDOU "Kindergarten No. 355", Samara

The kindergarten teacher (preschool educational institution) presents the results of her short-term project on the topic “Underwater World” in this work, presented in the form of a report of interesting activities conducted with children.


In the presented short-term project “Underwater World”, the teacher of the senior group of the kindergarten set a goal to introduce children to one of the components of nature - water, without which life on planet Earth is impossible, and to form a conscious, careful attitude towards water as an important natural resource.

The result of project activities in the form of a short-term project in the senior group of the preschool educational institution “Underwater World” was practical classes with children in the form of games and exercises aimed at developing in children a concept of ecology, getting to know the inhabitants of the aquatic environment and mastering knowledge about the water resources of the planet.

This work (project) will be useful for preschool teachers when organizing project activities with pupils of the senior group of kindergarten, as well as for parents of preschool children.

Introduction

The project method in teaching preschoolers is a preparatory stage for children’s transition to school. The main goal of the project method in kindergarten is the development of a free creative personality. It gives the child the opportunity to synthesize acquired knowledge, develop creativity and communication skills, which allows him to successfully adapt to the changed situation of schooling.


For children of senior preschool age, it is advisable to highlight in the educational process cognitive and research activities directly aimed at understanding the structure of the world (things, phenomena that are in certain relationships and connections), ordering, systematizing ideas about the environment.

The origins of cognitive-research activity are found in the free experimentation with objects and phenomena characteristic of a preschooler, in search activity that answers the questions: why? For what? how does the world work? Why do you need to be careful about the environment?

Satisfying his curiosity in the process of active cognitive and research activity, the child, on the one hand, expands his ideas about the world, on the other hand, begins to master the fundamental cultural forms of cognition - means of differentiation and ordering of experience: cause-and-effect, spatial and temporal relationships that allow connecting individual representations into a holistic picture of the world.

In addition, cognitive and research activities develop his attention, thinking, speech, arouses interest in the world around him, develops the ability to make discoveries and be surprised by them, and also improves qualities necessary in later life such as observation, diligence, and accuracy.

Our project " Undersea world“began with a question from the children about why they began to bring water from the store to the group for drinking, why can’t they drink water from the tap? Where does the water in the tap come from and why does it never run out? Where does the dirty water that we pour into the sink go?

After a conversation about water, how water gets into homes, how people pollute water bodies, and how drinking water is cleaned, the children began to think about the fact that their residents suffer from water pollution. A problem has arisen: how can people help underwater inhabitants?

Ecological problem – one of the most important in the modern world. The future of humanity depends on the level of environmental culture of each person, his competent, active position in solving pressing problems. Therefore, it is important to lay the foundations of environmental culture in preschool childhood, when children learn about the world and emotionally respond to troubles occurring in nature and around them.

Objective of the project: to introduce children to one of the components of nature - water, without which life on planet Earth is impossible, to form a conscious, careful attitude towards water as an important natural resource.

Project type: research and creative, medium duration (1 month), integrated.

Project objectives:

  • clarify children's knowledge about water, its basic properties, significance in the life of living beings, clarify children's knowledge about the class of fish, deepen their understanding of a reservoir as a fish habitat, clarify their understanding of the living conditions of aquarium fish;
  • encourage children to compare, search for similarities and differences, connections between things and phenomena, for verbal analysis and reasoning, develop observation skills, the ability to use evidence and defend their point of view;
  • develop the cognitive initiative of preschoolers (curiosity), independent research activities through partnership with an adult;
  • expand the child’s horizons, taking him beyond immediate practical experience into a broader spatial and temporal perspective;
  • arouse interest in the life of fish, a desire to learn more about them, and cultivate a desire to care for aquarium fish.

Stages:

1. Drawing up a plan - a project diagram.

2. Immersion in the project (Appendix 1, 2, 3).

3. Practical part (album " Water element", children's drawings, summary of a comprehensive lesson " Rivers, rivers and seas»).

4. Presentation of the project (Appendix 4, composition “Seabed”).

  • What knowledge will help solve the problem?
  • How can this knowledge be obtained?
  • What can be done to solve this problem.
  • help choose the most relevant and feasible task for children for a certain period of time;
  • suggest what items and accessories can be used;
  • plan what activities, games and other types of children's activities can be included in the project plan.

During the discussion, the children proposed various options for activities, games, and actions that would answer the questions that interested us. All children's proposals were drawn up in the form of a diagram.

Plan – scheme of the “Underwater World” project

CENTER OF MOVEMENT

  • outdoor games " Crucian carp and pike"Rucheek"
  • simulation game " We are droplets»
  • sketches " In the swamp», « Ocean is shaking» SCIENCE CENTER
  • consider the globe,
  • consider books, pictures, postcards about the underwater world
  • Let's do experiments with water: transparency, fluidity, change of state, water pressure, salt and fresh water, wave formation, water cycle in nature NATURE CENTER
  • Let's watch a film about the inhabitants of the Volga River,
  • let's observe the inhabitants of the aquarium: " Who lives in our aquarium», « How fish swim and how they rest», « How do fish breathe?»
  • we will take care of the aquarium - “ Let's put things in order in the aquarium».

BOOK CENTER

  • we will ask riddles about the inhabitants of rivers, seas and oceans;
  • Let's read poems about bodies of water and their inhabitants, read books about underwater inhabitants: A. Glebova " Pebbles", G. Snegirev " Little monster», « Brave stickleback», « Octopuses»
  • Let's read fairy tales, epics " Sadko», « Snow Maiden»,
  • make up stories based on pictures

Underwater world GAME CENTER

  • didactic games “Where, whose house is”, “Recognize the fish by description”, “Whose tail (torso, head)”, “ How does a fish appear?»
  • role-playing game " Travel by boat»

CENTER SKILLFUL HANDLES

  • we will make inhabitants of the underwater world from natural materials and paper,
  • let's arrange the composition " Sea bottom» ART CENTER
  • let's draw an aquarium,
  • Let's draw tales about the inhabitants of the sea;
  • let's make an application " Dolphins»
  • consider paintings depicting rivers, seas, oceans;
  • Let's listen to music (from the series " Oceanic», « Sounds of nature"") KNOWLEDGE CENTER
  • Lesson on familiarization with the surrounding world “Water around us”
  • Lesson to familiarize yourself with your surroundings: “A droplet walks in a circle”
  • Lesson on familiarization with fiction.
  • Conversation on the basics of safe living “Water is a friend - water is an enemy”

Project results " Undersea world».

  • that water in nature exists in various forms: reservoirs, precipitation (rain, snow, hail, dew), icicle, cloud, etc.;
  • the main properties of water are liquid, transparent, colorless, odorless and tasteless, dissolves some substances, has density, pressure;
  • water in nature can move from one state to another (ice - water - steam), there is a water cycle in nature;
  • there are reasons for water pollution, the simplest ways to purify it;
  • how animals and plants adapted to live in water, learned the classification of fish, their habitat, their structure, habits, nutrition, the difference between sea and river inhabitants.
  • independently explain the connection of facts (they use simple causal reasoning because: objects are visible in the water, because the water is transparent);
  • independently establish the simplest cause-and-effect relationships and relationships (if..., then...: if it’s frosty outside, then the water freezes; if the water is well purified, then it can be drunk);
  • do simple experiments using a verbal description or a model; upon completion of the experiment, draw appropriate conclusions;
  • notice changes in the aquarium that worsen the life of its inhabitants, care for aquarium fish.

The children in our group began to pay attention to whether the tap was closed properly, and if they noticed that water was dripping from the tap, they reported it to adults. We also noticed that children began to pour less water to drink, explaining that they did not want to pour the remaining water into the sink.

With great interest, the children began to be on duty in the corner of nature: they were careful when watering flowers, trying not to spill water from the watering can. They carefully monitor the aquarium fish and have come up with a name for each fish.

They carry out simple experiments independently and tell each other the results of these experiments. They bring new books to the group about rivers, seas, oceans, and sea voyages, look at the pictures with pleasure, and share their impressions of what they saw.

At the end of the project, the children had a question about what and who else needs people’s help, what needs to be done to make our planet Earth better, cleaner. Therefore, we decided to learn more about the life of animals, birds, and plants. These topics will become the topics of new projects.

Appendix 1. Outdoor games, sketches.

1. Outdoor game “Crucian carp and pike”. One child is chosen as a pike, the rest are divided into “pebbles” and “crucian carp”, which swim inside the circle. At the signal “pike”, it runs into the circle, trying to catch crucian carp. And the “crucian carp” are in a hurry to hide behind the “pebbles”. The crucian carp caught by the pike go outside the circle. The game is repeated with another “pike”.

2. Low mobility game “Stream”. Children stand in pairs, one after another, hold hands and raise them, forming a hoop. One child, the leader, goes through the gate and chooses any player from the pair, leading him along to the end of the corridor. The child left without a partner becomes the leader.

3. Game - simulation “We are droplets.” Give children paper crowns with droplet designs. The teacher puts on the same crown with a pattern of a cloud - mother, and the children are her teardrop children. The guys surround the cloud mother and dance around her. Then she lets them go for a walk on the ground, gives instructions to water the plants, wash the ground and come back. Children scatter to the sides, then gather together, stand one after another, forming streams. Then, at the teacher’s command, the streams join together to form a river. The river flows into the ocean (children make a wide circle). Mother Cloud reminds them that they are droplets and calls them home. The children spin around, one by one returning to the cloud. The circle is closed.

4. Sketch “The sea is agitated.” Goal: expand the content of the game, develop imagination, creativity, plasticity of movements.

5. Sketch " In the swamp». Children, as the teacher explains, imitate the habits of animals living in the swamp through expressiveness and plasticity of movements.

Appendix 2. A series of observations of the inhabitants of the aquarium.

1. " Who lives in our aquarium». Goal: identify all the inhabitants of the aquarium (fish, snails, plants), their names, clarify the living conditions of the inhabitants of the aquarium (lots of water, soil in which plants grow, lighting, compressor, feeder). Clarify the features of the external structure of fish.

2. " How fish swim and rest». Purpose: to clarify that fish move in water easily, freely, and can swim in different directions. Their streamlined shape, smooth body surface, and fins help them move. The fish uses its tail to make turns. Show children that fish need rest and sleep. They rest standing motionless near the grass bushes, at the bottom, and sleep with their eyes open.

3. " How do fish breathe?». Purpose: To give an idea that fish need air to live. They breathe air in the water using gills. The gill wings that cover them are located on the sides of the head. They constantly open and close - this is how the fish breathes.

4. " Clean up your aquarium». Goal: To learn to notice changes in the condition of the aquarium - dirt on the bottom, plaque on the glass, decrease in water, dust and stains on the glass, to evaluate these changes as a deterioration in the living conditions of aquatic inhabitants. To form a desire to take part in the work of adults, to receive satisfaction from joint work. Instill a sense of responsibility and a desire to justify trust. To foster activity, initiative, independence, accuracy, and friendliness.

Appendix 3. Experiments with water.

1. “What will we see through the water?”

Goal: to consolidate children’s knowledge about the property of water - transparency, through the consolidation of geometric shapes and colors.

Equipment: basin with water, geometric shapes of different colors.

Questions for children: what is in the basin (water). What can you tell us about water? Then throw the cube into the basin. What happened to him? (Fell to the bottom). Is it visible? What colour is he?

Invite the children to take turns putting various objects into the water. While one child lowers the object, the other children close their eyes.

Question for children: why do we see all these objects even through the water? (The water is clear).

2. “How to give Ivanushka clean water to drink?”

Goal: get acquainted with water purification processes in various ways.

Equipment: paper napkin, paper funnel, rag, rubbish, starch, containers.

Invite the children to see how cloudy the water is in the jar. It needs to be cleaned so that Ivanushka can drink it without fear of getting sick. How to make a cleaning device?

Children come up with different options for water purification. Invite children to make various cleaning devices - filters (from a paper funnel, a rag, a paper napkin). Children make filters and test their effect. Find out which filter purifies water better?

3. " Water pressure».

Goal: to introduce children to the property of water - pressure.

Equipment: plastic bottle, knitting needle, colored water.

Tell children that water has a wonderful property: it always tends to flow as low as possible. Have children encountered this property? What did it look like?

Water puts pressure on any object immersed in it. The greater the depth, the stronger the water pressure. The deeper a diver dives, the more pressure the water puts on him. You can estimate water pressure by the force with which the stream escapes from the hole. To do this, you need to poke three holes in the bottle and fill the bottle with water. Invite children to think about where the water pressure is greater at the top or bottom.

4. " Floats or sinks».

Goal: to introduce children to the property of water - density, to show the difference between fresh and salt water.

Equipment: two transparent glasses, warm water, salt, raw egg.

Tell children that salt water is denser than fresh water, therefore it is easier to swim in salt water, since water holds objects or a person better, as if pushing objects out of the water. Invite children to dissolve as much salt as possible in one glass of water, then try to lower an egg into this glass, then transfer the egg to a glass of plain, fresh water. What happened to the egg in salt water, what happened in fresh water? Lead the children to the conclusion that salt water is denser than fresh water.

Appendix 4. Quiz “What do we know about fish.”

Goal: To repeat and generalize children’s ideas about the underwater inhabitants of rivers and seas, to evoke a feeling of joy from collective play, and to intensify cognitive interest. Create conditions for the realization of ideas about the world in creative activity.

Task 1. Remember proverbs and sayings about the water world.

  • The fish looks for where it is deeper, and the person looks for where it is better.
  • The fish rots from the head.
  • Silent as a fish.
  • And you can’t catch crucian carp from a pond without difficulty.
  • From a bony fish, the ear is sweet.
  • In the absence of fish and cancer, fish.
  • Only crayfish go back.

Task 2. Remember fairy tales in which aquatic inhabitants are found.

  • The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish
  • Mermaid
  • Aibolit
  • Confusion
  • Moidodyr
  • By magic
  • Sadko

Task 3. Musical break.

Plastic sketch " Ocean is shaking».

Task 4. " Name the fish that are found in our reservoirs.

Task 5. “Collect and name.”

Each team must collect as many fish images as possible from the parts and name them correctly.

Task 6. " Guess the riddles».

Look, the house is standing, filled to the brim with water. Without windows, but not gloomy, transparent on four sides. The residents of this house are all skilled swimmers. (Aquarium)

In the wild sea - the ocean, a terrible fish lives, It has a big belly, A mouth with terrible fangs. (Shark)

Very good-natured, I am soft, obedient, But when I want, I will even wear out a stone. (Water)

In calm weather we are nowhere to be found. The wind blows - we run on the water. (Waves)

He was friendly with sailors, for which he is famous to this day. Of the sea animals, to whom in the world was the monument opened? (Dolphin)

I pressed myself all the way to the bottom in the darkness of the sea depths. I tried to be invisible - I turned into a flat pancake. (Flounder)

Across the sea - the ocean - a miracle - a giant - is swimming, Hiding his mustache in his mouth, Stretched out for a mile. (Whale)

Whether it’s winter or autumn, In the depths of our native river We proudly wear vests, We are dashing sailors. (Perches)

And at the bottom of the deep sea, And at the very shores Which fish drives away enemies with electric current? (Scat)

Task 7. Outdoor game " Crucian carp and pike».

Summing up the quiz.

List of sources used

1. Natural science, fine arts, artistic work: thematic planning of classes / author. V.Yu. Dyachenko and others - Volgograd: Teacher, 2007.

2. Culturological approach to the socio-psychological development of a preschool child / author. Pelenkova L.L. – Samara, 2008.

3. Organization of experimental activities of preschool children: Methodological recommendations / Ed. ed. L.N. Prokhorova. – 3rd ed., rev. and additional – M.: ARKTI, 2005.

4. Popova T.I. The world around us. Materials of a comprehensive program of cultural-ecological education and moral education of children of preschool and primary school age. – M.: LINKA-PRESS, 1998.

Yulia Voronyanskaya

ecological project« Undersea world»

Voronyanskaya Yu. N. and Kochergina I. V.

View project: group.

Age of participants: 4-5 years. (Medium group No. 6)

Subject project: « Undersea world»

Target project.

Introduce children to different types of fish that live not only in the aquarium, but also in other habitats

Tasks:

Give a general idea of ​​fish, teach children to identify similarities and differences between fish.

To consolidate the knowledge that fish come in different sizes, colors, body shapes, and structures. By comparison let down children to the conclusion about how everyone is alike fish: habitat, terminal covers, presence of fins, method of movement, habits.

Introduce children to the aquarium as a biological system.

Learn to establish and maintain biological balance in the aquatic environment.

Expand children's knowledge about aquarium fish and plants.

Develop skills and abilities to care for aquarium fish.

Foster a sense of responsibility for pets.

Relevance project.

Word "aquarium" is of Latin origin and means a glass container or artificial reservoir adapted for keeping, breeding, studying and displaying fish and plants.

Many peoples had ponds with sacred fish both in ancient times and in the recent past.

Why does a person need an aquarium? It relieves fatigue, gives peace to the soul, and gives refined and subtle aesthetic pleasure to all senses, especially vision. And a skillfully equipped artificial reservoir serves as an excellent means of understanding the world around us.

Children observe plants and animals and get used to caring for them, master basic work skills, and become accustomed to working together with adults, with each other, and then independently. During the observations, they notice bright manifestations in the growth and development of their pets. They learn to reflect their observations in coherent, precise speech.

Implementation stages project.

1. Preparatory.

2. Formation project.

3. Systematization of information.

4. Practical activities.

5. Final.

Implementation project.

1. Preparatory stage.

1.1. Reading and studying literature about fish and their origin.

1.2. Selection of illustrations, albums, coloring books, stencils about fish

1.3 Selection of fiction by topic « Underwater kingdom» .

1.4. A selection of videos, photographs, music and songs about fish. (With the help of parents).

1.5. A selection of riddles, poems, nursery rhymes, stories about fish.

1.6. A selection of postcards about aquarium fish.

1.7. Selection of cut-out games, demonstration material, educational games about fish.

1.8. Making a game "Collect a picture".

1.9. Selection of a puzzle about fish.

Formation project.

Formulation of environmental Problems: "Fish".

Systematization of information.

Dialogue conversations, communication, discussion, problem solving. Joint drawing up of a diagram for making aquariums from a designer set. Experimenting with fish food and water. Joint games: theatrical, movable, role-playing. didactic. relay games.

We run a node. communication, we pose various problems to children with the help of illustrations. material. We conduct joint theoretical and practical activities.

Practical activities

4.1. Reading educational fairy tales and stories about fish ( "By magic", A. S. Pushkin "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish", “Goldfish - varieties, nutrition, care”- Additional Information).

4.2. Reading a story about the history of the first fish and the first aquarium fish. My first encyclopedia (N. Kostina, Small Aquarium (A. Turisiy).

4.3. Viewing presentations on ID pro undersea world

4.4. Outdoor game"Ocean is shaking" with inventing words and movements at the request of the children.

4.5. Observing a turtle in a group aquarium.

4.6. Decorating a corner of nature according to the theme

« Underwater world of the aquarium» .

4.7. Watching a BBC film « Undersea world» .

4.8. Exhibition of creative works

"My aquarium fish".

4.9. Application: "Fish"

4.10. Learning poetry, children guessing riddles about fish

4.11. Free activities for children outside of class (we traced the stencils and painted them ourselves). The simplest version of origami

Final.

Final product project–preparing a presentation project« Undersea world» .

Summing up the work.





Project for middle preschool children "MYSTERIOUS UNDERSEA WORLD"

Teacher of the secondary group “Guldauren”: Medvedeva E.M.


Project type :

  • group;
  • information-ecological;
  • creative;
  • game.

Project duration :

  • short-term – 2 weeks.

Project participants:

  • Children of the middle group "Guldauren"
  • Educators
  • Parents

Target : Creating conditions for nurturing environmental culture and developing children’s cognitive and creative abilities.

Tasks :

  • expand children’s understanding of the inhabitants of the deep sea, develop the ability to think;
  • development of logical thinking, the ability to draw conclusions and conclusions based on a comparison of facts, results, observations;
  • develop aesthetic perception of the world around us, the ability to see beauty;
  • develop the ability to listen to the sounds of nature;
  • develop cognitive interest and creative abilities;
  • use various non-traditional artistic and graphic techniques;
  • teach to protect the environment;

Relevance:

The oceans are the cradle of life and its hope. Pollution of the oceans and seas undermines the health of its inhabitants and the planet as a whole.

Expected results of the project:

  • master the concepts of “marine animals”, “fish”, “shellfish”;
  • have the simplest ideas about some of the structural features of the body in connection with their life in water, their methods of movement (swims, crawls), methods of camouflage, and the uniqueness of each species;
  • have an understanding of the relationship between human activity and the environment;
  • develop initial skills of environmentally conscious behavior in nature;

Hypothesis:

  • There is still a lot of unknown and beautiful things around us. I would like to introduce children to this mysterious and mysterious world. During the implementation of the project, children will gain knowledge about the inhabitants of the seas and oceans. Feeling of love for nature. The desire to cherish and protect it.

Preliminary work:

  • search work on the selection of illustrative material on the topic “Sea inhabitants”, “Sea”;
  • acquaintance with literary works: G. Kosov “The ABC of the Underwater World”, S. Sakharnov “Who Lives in the Sea?”, A. S. Pushkin “The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish”, G. H. Andersen “The Little Mermaid”;
  • creation of a mini-reader “Underwater World”;
  • learning poems by V. Orlov “Why do I dress up at the sea?”, “I draw the sea”, Y. Dulepin “Octopus”, S. Baranov “Dolphins”, proverbs and sayings, finger gymnastics “Seagull”, asking riddles;
  • examination of reproductions of paintings by I. K. Aivazovsky “Night. Blue Wave”, “The Ninth Wave”, “Black Sea”, “Hurricane at Sea”, A. Rylov “Sea. Stones”, “In the blue expanse”, A. Bogolyubov “Sailboat at sea”;
  • listening to the song “Dolphins” based on verses by S. Kozlov from the cartoon “At the Port”; Debussy K. “The Sea”, sketch for symphony orchestra, “Conversation between the wind and the sea”; Ravel M. “The Game of Water”;
  • watching cartoons “The Colorful Family”, “The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish”, “The Little Mermaid”, “Finding Nemo”, “Shark Tale”;
  • creation of the album “The Underwater World by the Hands of Children”;
  • selection of coloring pages with sea inhabitants.

Collaboration with family:

  • Exhibition of works “Magic Fishes” (applique from waste material); joint creativity of parents and children
  • Consultations for parents: “How to interest children in the secrets of the unusual sea world”

Resource support:

Illustrations, photographic materials, videos, presentations, books, works of art and materials, camera, computer, materials for visual and design activities, shells of different sizes and shapes, plasticine, waste material.


Project implementation

Joint activities of children and teachers.

Target: Activate cognitive interest in the inhabitants of the deep sea. Strengthen children's knowledge about the diversity of the underwater world; encourage search skills; enrich children's speech; develop a caring attitude towards nature.

  • Conversations: About fish, about seas and oceans, about the underwater world;
  • Examination of illustrations (encyclopedias “The Sea and Its World”, “Mysteries of the Underwater World”;
  • Review of videos and presentations: “Sea World”. “Underwater world”, “Mammals in the zoo: Performance of dolphins, fur seals, Beluga whale.”
  • Cartoons: “About the Fisherman and the Fish” by A. S. Pushkin, “Nemo”, “Move Your Fins”, “Bait for the Shark”;
  • Albums with species diversity of flora and fauna, their habitats;
  • Examination of paintings by artists depicting the underwater world of a painting by Mark Susino;

Reading fiction

Target: To develop interest in works of art of various genres, to reveal the relationship between the fairy-tale and real worlds; learn to highlight the main idea of ​​a work; Explain how important drawings are in a book; show how much interesting things can be learned by looking at book illustrations.

  • H.-K. Andersen "The Little Mermaid" and others.
  • An evening of riddles and poems about the sea world.
  • Reading poems about the inhabitants of the underwater world.

Didactic games:

  • “Mahjong” “Fourth is odd” “Whose silhouette” “Continue the logical series” “Loto. Sea inhabitants" "Collect a picture of a sea inhabitant" "Decorate the aquarium" "Connect the dots" "Find the same one" "Paired pictures" "Guess the riddle" "Who hears what?" “Find it by description” “Name it in one word” “Who will notice the most fables?”
  • "Mahjong"
  • "The Fourth Wheel"
  • "Whose silhouette"
  • "Continue the logical series"
  • "Lotto. Marine life"
  • “Collect a picture of a sea creature”
  • "Decorate the aquarium"
  • "Connect the dots"
  • "Find the same one"
  • "Paired pictures"
  • "Guess a riddle"
  • “Who hears what?”
  • "Find by description"
  • “Call it in one word”
  • “Who will notice more fables?”

Productive activities:

Target: Teach children various techniques for working with various visual media, the ability to follow oral instructions, and operate with concepts denoting spatial characteristics. Develop fine motor skills and eye, artistic taste and creativity. Develop a work culture and communication skills in children.

  • Application “At the bottom of the sea”
  • Drawing "Aquarium"
  • Teamwork. Collage “Sea painting”
  • Plasticineography “Unusual fish”
  • Modeling from dough “Clown fish”
  • Paper construction "Octopuses".
  • Origami "Sea fish"

Musical activities

Goal: To teach to perceive the character of animals with the help of musical works. Exercise children in creating expressive images of sea creatures. Instill a love for various musical genres.

  • Listening to songs about the sea;
  • Listening to music: “Sounds of the sea”, “Sounds of a dolphin”;

Outdoor games

Goal: Formation of motor skills, development of imagination, attention.

  • "The Fisherman and the Fishes"
  • "Ocean is shaking"
  • "Fishes and Pebbles"
  • "Water"
  • "Fishing rod"