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Ecology starts with family

Family is an association of people based on marriage or consanguinity, connected by economic and household community and mutual responsibility.

Ecology (from ancient Greek οἶκος - abode, home, house, property and λόγος - concept, doctrine, science) is the science of the relationships of living organisms and their communities with each other and with the environment.

Starting with a family, a small group of people, we move on to the big concept of “ecology”. It is not so difficult to discern the commonality in these words. Family is the same dwelling, house and even the world, and ecology is a group of objects, organisms, interconnected by everything possible.

Why does ecology start with the family? According to Alexander Ivanovich Herzen, “family begins with children.” As children, everyone was taught not to break tree branches or litter on the street. And everyone remembers these rules, just like “washing your hands before eating.”

We also remember...

In the 2011 school year, we participated in the city handwritten book competition: “Nature is a priceless gift, one for all.” The result of the competition was the creative work “Chamomile Murom”, in which the students of our class told amazing stories about the chamomile, proposed creative social projects for the improvement of the school yard

This is how we see the façade of our school in the future. Chamomile fountain of our Murom

Practical implementation of the project A start has been made. There will be a flowerbed!

Well done boys! The lilac will definitely bloom!

Work ennobles real guys

Mom's master class

The first flowers are a reward for work

From school essays “...Nature is our second home, and the house should be environmentally friendly. Let's take care of this and plant indoor plants in the apartment, and trees and shrubs under the windows. This is the first step towards making our world a better place. If each of us does this, then everything can change before our eyes, and life will be much more pleasant." Olga Volkova, 13 years old. "Today the issue of protecting the environment is very serious. Thoughtless human activity over the centuries has destroyed the habitat. Why are people so careless? Why don’t they take care of what nature has given to man as a gift? I don’t find answers to these questions, but I am absolutely sure that ecology begins in the family. After all, it is the parents who “generate” in the child love, respect and reverent caring attitude towards nature. Belova Arina 13 years old “Before you “carelessly” crush a small beetle or insect, think that this bug could have saved hundreds of trees, but now it is gone and... Always think about the consequences, set a good example for friends and family, because the life of the planet also depends on you » Panichkin Daniil 13 years old

October 1. Hold a parent meeting to attract parents to participate in the project. 2. Conduct a conversation with parents with a preliminary questionnaire on the topic “Take care of nature.” 3. Create family archives “Let’s relax without harm!” (family photos – outdoor recreation: park, forest, country house). 4. Group excursions with children and parents around the city “Weekend Club”. 5. Set up photo stands in the “Nature of our city” groups. 6. Involve parents in creating a wall newspaper dedicated to nature conservation. November 1. Conduct consultation “Garbage problem 1”. With this topic, we want to convey to parents how important this problem is in our city. Talk about ways to process waste and the possibilities of recycling it. Show with examples the damage waste causes to a city. 2. Together with parents, create advertising leaflets for trash cans like: “Let the city be clean!” “Give me the trash!” and so on. 3. conduct environmental excursions around the city together with children and parents. 4. Involve parents in replenishing the nature corner in the group. Create a booklet for parents: “Where should I put the trash?” – inform adults about where they can take industrial waste for recycling in our city. December 1. “Ecological landing” - walk around the city together with parents and children to collect plastic. 2. Homework for parents “Waste as a resource” (involvement in the collection of plastic waste 3. Joint holding of the New Year’s party. January 1. Prepare an information page for the parent’s corner: “Water is the source of life!” In the message, we want to remind adults that how important is the problem of saving our water resources. Not only is there an acute problem with drinking water in some settlements (there is not enough water, or it is of very low quality), but it is also a habitat for many plants and living organisms 2. Produce together. with children, reminders for parents “Down with garbage!”, “Don’t throw garbage anywhere!” 3. “Ecological landing” - attract parents to collect plastic waste. Competition for parents for the best leaflet on the topic “Let's make our city cleaner.”

February 1. Conduct a consultation for parents “By playing, we learn about nature.” We want to tell you how to teach children to save and protect nature using environmentally oriented games, and give several examples of games. 2. Hold a competition for parents for the best environmental game for children. 3. Create a mobile folder for the parent’s corner “Love and protect the environment.” 4. Make a photo album from family archives “How we relax in nature (dacha, forest, etc.). March 1. “Weekend Club” - speech by parents on the topic “The House We Live In.” With the help of this conversation, we would like to find out from the parents what their local area looks like, what their entrances look like, what they do to improve their appearance, and do they do it at all? What could or would like to be done to improve the surrounding areas? 2. “Ecological landing” - involve parents in collecting plastic waste. 3. Carry out environmental walks around the city together with your parents. 4. Homework is to come up with fairy tales, ditties, and chants on environmental topics. 5. Drawing competition for parents and children on the theme “My beautiful, clean city!” April 1. Observation walk on the theme “Spring has come. Is the city clean? 2. Conduct a conversation with parents on the topic “Animals in the city.” Many of us have pets, and in the spring, on the lawns, we see the remains of their vital activity. It all looks terrible. We would like to ask parents how they feel about this problem and what they think could be done. 3. “Ecological landing” - together with parents, hold a cleanup day to clean the territory of the kindergarten. 4. Preparing a booklet “Did you know that...” (How long does it take for various types of garbage to decompose: paper, glass, plastic). May 1. Have a conversation with parents on the topic “Fire is a disaster for the forest!” Summer will begin soon, and we will all go on vacation outside the city. But do we all know how to behave correctly in the forest? With this message, we would like to warn parents about the harm that an accidentally forgotten fire, a thrown cigarette, etc. can cause to nature. 2. “Plant a Tree” campaign – hold a cleanup day with parents to plant trees in the kindergarten. 3. Make a photo stand from photographs about the cleanup event “That’s how it became green!” 4. Prepare and hold an environmental holiday for children with the participation of parents.

Parents with children Hiking, excursions, Hiking, excursions, holidays Inspecting your own home Doing homework Writing environmental fairy tales Caring for animals and plants together Participating in environmental campaigns Exhibitions of joint work Collecting natural materials

The project “Purity of Nature Begins with Me” was developed on the basis of the Environmental Education Program in Private Educational Institutions of JSC Russian Railways. As a result of environmental work on this Project, the Program was drawn up: “The purity of nature begins with me” and the work of the school environmental association “Rodnik” was organized with students in grades 5–11.

Relevance of the project.

Man is an element of an ecological system called the biosphere. It receives all vital resources - air, food, water and a significant part of energy and construction resources - from the biosphere. People dump waste – household and industrial – into the ecological system. For a long time, this type of human activity did not disturb the balance of the biosphere. However, in the last two centuries, expanding industrial activity, humanity has actively invaded the living world of the Earth.

Humans impact the biosphere locally - in hundreds of millions of places, pollutants are released into rivers and air, fertile soil is removed, forests are cut down, and the habitats of plants and animals are destroyed. However, the biosphere is a single system, covered by cycles of substances, and millions of local impacts, at first glance, are not dangerous, such as, for example, the use of freon sprays, chemical detergents, burning waste in production and everyday life, merging and reinforcing each other, causing global changes in all components of the biosphere. Rivers flow into the seas and oceans and introduce pollution released by industry and agriculture along the entire path of the watercourses. Deforestation and soil degradation are leading to climate change, loss of soil fertility and destruction of natural ecosystems across the planet. Pollution released into the air at one point immediately spreads over thousands of kilometers.

We know from personal experience how quickly atmospheric transfers occur. In our region in Bratsk, there are enterprises “Bratsk Timber Processing Complex” - BLPC, “Bratsk Aluminum Plant” - BRAZ, which periodically emit waste into the atmosphere. Emissions, easily covering tens of kilometers of treeless areas within an hour, fall into a toxic haze into the “bowl” of our small town of Vikhorevka. For a day, or even more, in calm weather, depriving residents of breathing freely.

The situation is aggravated by the barbaric attitude of residents towards the nature of their area: in pursuit of a better life and saving money, people violate the laws of the Russian Federation and city regulations. It is scary that the younger generation becomes a witness and sometimes an accomplice to these actions. Illegal deforestation in adjacent forest areas, spontaneous landfills in forest, country and even urban areas near organized waste sites. The burning of solid waste (solid household waste) in barrels, littered streets, recreation areas on rivers and the Bratsk reservoir indicate the indifference and low culture of environmental education of some residents.

The deteriorating environmental situation causes great concern and concern for all of humanity and for us in particular. An educational institution can play a major role in improving the environmental situation; its students can actively participate in environmental activities, studying the state of the environment, and organizing environmental monitoring. Increasing the environmental awareness and literacy of residents and the entire population is one of the ways out of the current environmental crisis.
School environmental education and training has the potential for targeted, coordinated and systematic transfer of knowledge.

Teaching children to understand and love nature means raising them to be moral people, for whom labor and production activities will be associated with responsibility for its environmental consequences. The formation of environmental consciousness and a caring attitude towards all living things is one of the most pressing tasks of modern education, and our project proposes to solve it by involving children and adolescents in practical environmental activities.

The project is aimed at the child understanding himself as a particle of the surrounding world, awareness of civic responsibility for his actions, understanding the value of human life as the greatest gift of nature. The project is focused on making a person want to make their home, plot, yard, street, city clean, well-groomed and, if possible, environmentally friendly, so that the person is convinced that he and his family deserve a clean, beautiful and healthy life.

Thus the project « The purity of nature begins with me » relevant for our time and our city.

Lately there has been problem: how to make environmental work, including research work, more interesting and attractive for a modern teenager. Therefore, the use of modern equipment and computer technologies in this direction becomes relevant.

Today in schools there is no teaching of a separate subject - ecology; the knowledge system is formed in biology, chemistry, physics and geography lessons and in extracurricular activities. The lack of modern training equipment for environmental field workshops does not allow for on-site monitoring. Our association “Rodnik” does not have a color photocopier, a digital camera, a video camera, or a comprehensive environmental laboratory for field work. All this creates difficulties in field work on ecology.

It is important to develop not only knowledge, but also practical environmental skills in the modern generation. Recently, the profession of “ecologist” has become increasingly popular and necessary in modern society.

Objective of the project: Environmental education and the formation of an environmental culture of behavior of students based on labor, spiritual and moral development of the individual through the joint activities of students, teachers and city residents.

Project objectives:

• To form an active civic position among the younger generation.
• Promote moral, environmental, aesthetic and labor education.
• Study of the environmental situation in the world in the country and our city.
• Coordination of children's practical activities to study and assess the state of the environment using the example of our city and nearby surroundings.
• Fostering a sense of personal responsibility for the state of the environment.
• Development of initiative and creativity in students through the organization of socially significant activities.
• To disseminate environmental knowledge not only among boarding school students, but also among the local population, using various types of activities and forms of work.
• Growing seedlings and landscaping school grounds.
• Identify gifted children prone to research work and provide them with opportunities to realize their abilities.

Project participants:

• Students, parents, teaching staff and school administration;
• Employees of the school and JSC Russian Railways;
• Employees of the House of Culture
• Employees of the Bratsk Center for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring;
• Employees of the Ecological and Biological Center of Bratsk
• Employees of the Vikhorevka water intake;
• Employees of wastewater treatment plants in Vikhorevka and Bratsk
• Forestry workers of the city and region;
• Employees of the Bratsk Timber Processing Complex BLPK, Bratsk Aluminum Plant - BrAZ OJSC RUSAL BRATSK
• Fisherman's House staff;
• Residents of the city of Vikhorevka and Bratsk district.

Project implementation mechanism.

• Gathering information on the topic of the project.
• Search for partners for joint project implementation.
• Development of directions for an activity plan with institutions and organizations of the city, involving them in work on environmental education.
• Search for addresses of positive experiences on the topic of project activities.
• Development of a project management model.
• Preparation of methodological material for consultations and events within the project.
• Program development.
• Conducting research in accordance with the program.
• General work (The project is implemented through planned activities on topics.)
• Conducting environmental landings on the territory of a school, city and spring.
• Conducting master classes on indoor and decorative floriculture.
• Growing seedlings, landscaping the school grounds.
• Preparing students to participate in the Baikal International School and All-Russian Olympiads in ecology.
• Preparation of analytical material based on the results of the research work carried out.
• Presentation of final results

Project implementation conditions

To implement this project, the following conditions exist:

• School-wide educational work planBoarding school No. 25
• The program of environmental education and upbringing of students “The purity of nature begins with me” has been developed and is being implemented;
• A work program for the elective course was developed and implemented: “Fundamentals of Ecological Culture”, grade 10, based on the author’s program “Fundamentals of Ecological Culture” for grades 10-11 L.N. Kharchenko, Bustard 2012
• Regulations on the “Ecological squad” dated September 15, 2014, JSC Russian Railways
• The work of the environmental association "Rodnik"
• Research work of 11th grade students, winners of the IV Summer Interregional round of the conference of the All-Russian Competition for Youth Research Works named after. IN AND. Vernadsky: “By increasing the level of environmental culture, we are solving the problem of solid household waste in the city of Vikhorevka.”

Performance tracking mechanism carried out:

By comparing the activity of students throughout the year. Knowledge testing is carried out in the form of games, quizzes, competitions;

• through observations;
• by survey;
• interest in search work;
• activity in the activities of the environmental team “Spring”;
• demand for consultations and elective courses in ecology and biology.

Principles of organizing environmental education and training:

• The principle of environmental integrity, which forms in students an understanding of the unity of the surrounding world.
• The principle of interdisciplinary connections, revealing the unity and interconnection of the surrounding world.
• The principle of continuity, which makes it possible to use each age period.
• The principle of interrelation between regional and global approaches, promoting the involvement of students in practical activities.
• The principle of direction, promoting the development of harmonious relationships with the environment.

The project is being implemented in the main areas:

• Organization of activities of the school environmental association "Rodnik"
• Research work in the following areas:
  • Climate and people
  • Chemistry and Environment
  • Field ecology
  • Forest monitoring
  • Environment and people
  • Integrated monitoring of natural and anthropogenic systems
• Environmental education activities:
  • Conducting environmental lessons, classroom hours, school events (exhibitions, competitions).
  • Organization and conduct of city events
  • Creation of: information boards, newspapers, booklets
  • Development and implementation of school environmental projects.
• Ecological and practical activities:
  • Greening the school and city grounds
  • Ecological landing
  • Environmental monitoring
  • Excursions to enterprises
  • Caring for birds.
• Organization of work to promote a healthy lifestyle
  • School tourist rally
  • Themed classroom hours.

The project is implemented through various forms of activity:

• Conversations and observations.
• Quiz with ecological and biological content.
• Competitions of drawings, posters, presentations, booklets.
• Competitions of poems, essays, stories, fairy tales on an environmental theme.
• Exhibitions of crafts made from waste materials, feeders, gifts of autumn.
• Thematic days: Earth Day (April 22), Environment Day (June 5), World Animal Day (October 4), World Water Day (March 22), Bird Day (April 1), etc.
• Production of environmental leaflets, newspapers, booklets.
• Acquaintance with video materials about the life of plants and animals.
• Ecological tournaments, KVN, brain rings, intellectual games of ecological and biological content.
• Visit to the ecological and hydrometeorological centers of the city. Bratsk.
• Ecological hikes to study flora, fauna, natural features of the region, the ecological state of reservoirs, their banks, and coastal vegetation.
• Operation "Spring"
  • Studying the environmental situation in the city and searching for ways to improve the environmental situation.
  • Excursions to enterprises in Bratsk and Vikhorevka to study the impact of human activity on nature.
  • Cooperation on issues of city improvement with the city administration.
  • Landscaping and beautification of the school and the city.

Social partners:

To implement the project and successfully implement the project of boarding school No. 25, Vikhorevka will continue to work closely with the following organizations:

• Fraternal Center for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring;
• Children's Environmental Center in Bratsk;
• With the Baikal International School in Tankhoy;
• Administration of the Vikhorevsky urban settlement;
• General education schools;
• Industrial enterprises BLPK, BrAZ OJSC RUSAL BRATSK, Bratsk.
• With housing and communal services organizations in Vikhorevka: treatment plants, water intake;
• City radio center;
• Media and school website;
• Educational institutions: Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Brotherly State University" (Project Factory)

Information support includes:

• library resources,
• Internet resources,
• information resources of the environmental center, Bratsk Center for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring
• excursions to enterprises
• meetings with employees of enterprises, housing and communal services, and city residents.

Technical equipment:

• Cabinet
• Black and white printer - copier
• Computer
• TV plasma
  Internet connection.

Project implementation timeline: 2016-2017

Results of the project:

As a result of the implementation of the “Cleanliness Starts with Me” project, a comprehensive targeted program for environmental education of the younger generation was created, which will allow:

• Preserve the environmental direction as one of the directions in the educational work of the school and increase the level of environmental culture of students, school staff and residents of our city.
• Solve the problems of state policy in the field of environmental education of youth.
• Raise the level of environmental culture.
• Develop creative and organizational skills.
• To increase students' interest in studying ecology, region, city, country, through a system of creative, practical participation in planned environmental events and campaigns:
  • Improvement of a forest spring
  • Growing seedlings
  • Landscaping of school grounds, etc.
• To develop a consciousness of personal responsibility and active citizenship in the protection and preservation of the natural environment.
• To increase the efficiency of the environmental team “Rodnik” through the use of innovative forms and practical methods to solve educational problems.
• To increase the cognitive activity of students through the introduction of scientific research and practical activities into the educational process.
• To ensure increased motivation to study not only ecology, but also natural science subjects.
• To form the social experience of the student, which will allow him to apply the acquired knowledge in non-standard and new situations.

Literature.

• Bianki V.V. Forest newspaper. L.: Children's literature, 1983.
• Red Book of the Irkutsk region. Irkutsk: “Time of Wandering”, 2010 - 453s
• Kriksunov E.A., Pasechnik V.V. Ecology. 10(11) grade: Educational. for general education Educational institutions. M.: Bustard, 2001
• Litvinova L.S., Zhirenko O.E. Moral and environmental education of schoolchildren in grades 5-11. Moscow: “5 for knowledge”, 2007. - 204 p.
• Scientific and methodological magazine "Class teacher". No. 3.-Moscow 2008
• Guide to determining water quality indicators using the field method. Muravyov A.G. St. Petersburg 2004
• Photo guide. Rare plant species of the Southern Baikal region. Ulan-Ude, 2011 -72p.
• Ecological workshop. Muravyov A.G. St. Petersburg 2003
• Ecological Dictionary. Litvinov N.I. Irkutsk State Agricultural Academy 2003
• Funds of the Ecological and Hydrometeorological Center of Bratsk.
• Internet resources containing:
  • Decrees: of the President of the Russian Federation “On the state strategy of the Russian Federation for environmental protection and ensuring sustainable development” (1996), “On the concept of the transition of the Russian Federation to sustainable development” (1996);
  • Environmental Doctrine of the Russian Federation (2002);
  • Federal Law “On Environmental Protection” (10.01.2002);
  • National Security Strategies of the Russian Federation (2009);
  • Concepts of general environmental education for sustainable development (2010);
  • Educational portal (edu.wladimir.ru) is open access for wide discussion.

Ecology begins in the family

Education only develops a person’s moral strength,

but does not give them: nature gives them to man.

V.G. Belinsky

Hello, dear colleagues! Each of us knows that if two trainers and teachers meet, the method will definitely begin. Advice. Our meeting today is no exception. The topic of my speech is “Ecology begins in the family.”

On January 5, 2016, Russian President V.V. Putin signed a Decree on holding the Year of Ecology in the Russian Federation in 2017. The purpose of this decision is to draw attention to problematic issues existing in the environmental sphere and improve the state of environmental safety

What is ecology? For some it is a huge concentration of animals and birds, and for others it is trees and grass. But we can call ecology in one word - it is our whole nature.

Before continuing my presentation, I suggest you test your knowledge about nature and environmental education:

1. Which bird has the longest tongue? (at the woodpecker)
2. What is the thinnest thread in nature? (web)
3. Which pet's teeth grow throughout its life? (in rabbits)
4. Which animal's footprint is similar to a human's? (bear)
5. What does the term "Ecology" mean? (the term “ecology” was introduced by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel in 1886, comes from the Greek word “ekois”, “ecus” - house, dwelling, and is understood as the science of the habitat, or the science of the relationships between organisms and the environment)

6. List the main environmental problems in the world, country, city? (high pollution of air, water, soil from industry, transport, energy, both in the world and in the country and our city)

7. What is environmental education? (Ecological education is a system aimed at forming the principles of ecological culture and the development of ecological culture in children and adults. The system of environmental education is the creation of conditions, certain content, methods and forms of work with students and parents. Ecological knowledge is ideas about plants and animals, their relationships; about the seasons, about inanimate nature, ideas about the relationship between living beings and their environment, etc. The purpose of environmental education: the formation of a new type of person with new ecological thinking, capable of realizing the consequences of their actions in relation to environment and able to live in relative harmony with nature (T.M. Bondarenko)

8. Why should environmental education begin in the family? (The family spends most of a person’s life. For each of its members, this is a certain living space, an entire ecological microsystem in which everyone strives to satisfy their needs, develop, realize themselves and at the same time is in close connection with all family members. Ecological education in the family - this is, first of all, an example set by adults. Adults themselves should take care of nature and more often draw the attention of children to this)

That's right. A.V. Lunacharsky wrote: “You can sculpt a small child, but you have to bend an older one, and break an adult.” Love for nature, a conscious, careful and interested attitude towards it in every person should be cultivated from early childhood in the family. Children’s attitude towards nature is influenced by gender, individual characteristics, place of residence, profession and education of parents. It is in the family that the foundations of a person’s spiritual and cultural appearance are formed, his tastes and habits are laid. Parents take their children on excursions, hikes, walks, watch TV shows, read books, and take care of their pets.

Currently, unforgivably little attention is paid to family environmental education. In the Russian educational system, this function is traditionally “trusted” to educational institutions. But it is parents who can and should be involved in the environmental education of the child, and the school serves as the organizing beginning of mass daily activities in the field of continuous education of environmental culture, the formation of environmental literacy and environmental values ​​of families and society. The formation of environmental consciousness of students is more influenced by the worldview of the older generation in the family, ecological culture of the family, rather than “academic” ecology.

The effectiveness of environmental education in the family directly depends on family support and the coincidence of family and school values. The family is the soil, the fertile environment on which the seeds of environmental education and upbringing fall. A person’s whole life: his character, love of nature, sense of responsibility, good and bad habits, ability to overcome difficulties, conscientiousness, hard work - are largely determined by his upbringing in childhood. If parents limit themselves only to physical nutrition and neglect spiritual nutrition, then a person grows up to be a unspiritual slave of his carnal desires. Cultivating an environmental sense is the most important among all human senses. This is one of the main characteristics of a person’s holistic personality.

Forming a responsible attitude towards nature is a complex process, the success of which largely depends on the mutual activities of the family, school, and additional education institutions, which include our sports school. Interest in nature and attitude towards it will be largely determined by the psychological climate of the family, in particular - the attitude towards nature of the child’s closest relatives. Everyone knows that “a child learns everything he sees in his home.” Working with parents on environmental education is one of the components of the work of Children and Youth Sports School No. 1. Only by relying on the family, only by joint efforts can we solve our main task - raising a person with capital letter, an environmentally literate person.

When working with parents on environmental education of students, it is necessary to use all available forms of interaction with the family. But all these forms must be based on a pedagogy of cooperation. Work should be carried out in the following directions:

– coach–teacher–parent;

– coach – teacher – student – ​​parent.

There are traditional and non-traditional forms of communication between the trainer-teacher and parents, the essence of which is to enrich them with environmental knowledge. Traditional forms are divided into collective, individual and visual information.

Towards collective forms include parent meetings, conferences, “Round Tables”, etc. Group parent meetings are an effective form of working with parents, a form of organized familiarization with the tasks, content and methods of raising children of a certain age in a school and family setting.

Individual forms include pedagogical conversations with parents. A conversation can be used in working with parents as an independent form and in combination with other forms: a conversation when visiting a family, at a parent meeting, consultation. The purpose of a pedagogical conversation is to exchange opinions on a particular issue of education and achieve a common point of view on these issues, providing assistance to parents timely assistance.

A separate group consists of visual information methods. These include presentations, photographs, stands, and moving folders. Currently, non-traditional forms of communication with parents are especially popular. They are modeled after television and entertainment programs, games and are aimed at establishing informal contacts with parents.

Environmentally literate parents will explain the basics of environmental culture, backing up their words with actions. You cannot teach a child what the parents themselves do not observe. The family has its own characteristics and, thanks to its social essence, develops evaluative attitudes that manifest themselves in subsequent years. Parents can promote the development of cognitive interest in nature and an understanding of its value as an object of knowledge in a variety of ways. For example: when indoor plants are grown at home, you should not only give instructions on how to care for them, but also teach children to observe their growth and development. In addition, it is necessary to give the opportunity to experiment with the plant, identify optimal conditions for its growth and development, and discuss the results obtained with family and friends. In the process of environmental education of a child in a family, it is advisable to introduce him to technologies for keeping pets: cats, dogs, aquarium fish, songbirds. As a result of such activities, children develop a variety of cognitive interests that will form the basis for their understanding of nature. In getting to know the animal world, it is difficult to overestimate the role of excursions to the zoo, where the boundaries of a child’s knowledge of the environment are expanded, awareness of its uniqueness and fragility. Family trips have educational value. Here parents will show how to rationally and skillfully use the gifts of nature and take care of forest resources. Children need to be explained the rules of behavior in nature, the rules of picking mushrooms and berries.

Together with your children, you can organize feeding of birds, equip artificial nests, and collect fruits and seeds. Environmental education is also facilitated by joint activities on personal plots and subsidiary plots. Here the child realizes his knowledge, skills and abilities in keeping pets, breeding and caring for plants.

Children are very receptive to the beauty of nature, and the family plays a huge role in a child's awareness of the aesthetic value of his environment. Parents need to use visual arts in the environmental education of their children. Children enjoy drawing natural objects and landscapes. Children especially enjoy the task of drawing their pet (plant or animal). Parents and their children can take part in environmental art competitions. Children can be asked to draw sounds, smells, and create natural objects from plasticine.

Family reading plays a huge role in the formation of cognitive interests and a caring attitude towards nature. Joint reading aloud works about nature, the life of animals and plants provides an opportunity to discuss what has been read, involve the child in a conversation, and exchange opinions and experiences. For family reading, we can recommend the works of I.S. Turgenev, N.S. Leskov, I.A. Bunin, F.I. Tyutchev and others.

The formation of a caring attitude towards the environment is facilitated by playing together in nature, composing fairy tales and stories about the life of animals and plants, collecting stamps, postcards depicting natural phenomena and objects.

Love and respect for nature distinguish a truly cultured person. Man belongs to nature. He must understand this, learn to rationally use its wealth and preserve its incomparable beauty not only for himself, but also for posterity. Instilling in students the need to protect nature is a responsible task not only for teachers, but also for parents.

This is interesting to know.

1. Paper left in the forest decomposes within 5 years, a plastic bottle over 15 years, a tire after 150 years.
2. It takes at least 7–8 years for a flowering plant to grow from a lily of the valley seed.
3. More than 10 years pass from the emergence of blueberry shoots to the formation of the first fruits.
4. One ant family destroys up to 2 million insects per year, most of which are forest pests.
5. Astronomers consider the beginning of spring to be the day of the vernal equinox - March 21, when night and day divide the day in half.
6. The most common vegetable in the world is onion. Its remains were even found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs. The Egyptians considered onions a great delicacy and ate them only on holidays.
7. Did you know that an old legend says that the medicinal properties of plantain were discovered by snakes? One day two snakes were basking in the sun in the middle of the road. Suddenly a speeding carriage appeared. One snake gaped and the wheel ran over it. The second snake went in search of healing herbs. The people riding in the cart saw that she soon returned with a plantain leaf. This gave people the idea of ​​using the plant for medicinal purposes.
8. The German scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (1908) P. Ehrlich formulated five laws of nature conservation:

• You cannot live on Earth and not take, but you must take rationally.
• Everything that exists on Earth is necessary for its development and human development.
• Man is not the master of nature: by destroying it, he destroys himself.
• By protecting nature, we protect the Earth's population.
• Nature conservation is part of the fight for peace. Nature and war are not compatible.