Experimenting in the middle group: creating an optimal development environment for children

Preschool age is the most important time in lifeevery child. Cognitive-research activity in the course of personal development is no less important than the actual NCD. Experimentation in the middle group is a search for knowledge, obtaining them with the help of an adult or independently. The main task of the kindergarten is to develop and support in each child an interest in discoveries, new knowledge, research activities and create all necessary conditions for this. How to do it competently?

Goals, tasks and requirements for design of a corner of experimentation in the middle group of preschool institutions

The main goal of creation of corners of experimentation for children of any age is development of skills and skills of interaction with various objects of research in laboratory conditions.

The tasks of experimental work include:

• the development of primary ideas about the world of matter and nature;
• development of activity, curiosity;
• the development of logic and thinking (the child learns to compare, generalize);
• the formation of skills to explore the subject of the necessary items.

Experimental corner in the middle groupmust be issued in accordance with the rules and regulations. The basic requirements imposed on him are the safety, age-appropriate pupils, the fullness and accessibility of the arrangement for toddlers.

Designing a corner of experimentation for the middle group

The main exhibit of the corner is a capaciouscabinet or shelving. By the way, a modern and convenient piece of furniture can be purchased not without parental voluntary support. The cabinet must have many shelves and compartments of different sizes.

If there is no such furniture in the kindergarten, thenExperimentation in the middle group can take place on a large table or a comfortable pedestal. In the corner there should be a place for an exhibition-museum, where collections of stones, feathers, shells, photographs from museums of the country will be exhibited. There must also be a comfortable place for storing all the necessary material and conducting the experiments themselves.

Experimentation in the middle group: the content of the corner

All the content of the experiment's corner should be clearly divided into three components: didactic, stimulating and equipment component. On the specific filling of each section, read below.

1. Didactic component.Experimentation in the middle group must necessarily be supported by educational material and various bright posters, the content of which is explained by the teacher. There should be cognitive books and encyclopedias suitable for children by age, various thematic albums, interesting collections (cones, shells, tissues, paper, stones), mini-museum.
2. Component of equipment.Children's experimentation in the middle group requires full filling of the corner with different objects. Mandatory here should be sand, clay, earth and all kinds of devices for playing with them (shovels, scoops, buckets, strainer). There should be dyes (food, gouache, watercolor), seeds of different plants in jars or boxes, food (sugar, flour, salt, sunflower oil). Carrying out experiments presupposes the availability of equipment, such as magnifiers, vessels, magnets, mirrors, plugs, clothespins, etc.
3. The stimulating component is needed in order tochildren could do experiments on their own. Arrange here the algorithms for conducting experiments in pictures and rules for safe behavior in the corner. Settle in the corner of the character, in whose name and will act all the problem situations (Neznaika or Pochemuchku). Children will be happy to help!

Children of the middle group with soap

Experimenting in the middle group in the firstturn should be interesting for children. Very pre-schoolers love 4-5 years of play and experiments with soap and water. Such experiments will introduce children to the properties of soap, help develop curiosity, thinking, and also teach correct and safe handling of hygiene items. These experiments can be such a plan:

• touch, smell a piece of soap (its smoothness and aroma are felt);
• to examine the water (to conclude that it is warm and transparent);
• soak the soap in water (it is slippery);
• rub the sponge with soap and put it in water (the water changed color);
• take a tube and let it blow bubbles from it.

Experiments in the middle group with sand

Experimental corner in the middle groupshould be convenient for carrying out experiments and with sand. Classes introduce children to the properties of sand, its origin, develop perseverance, attention, and fine motor skills. Children can touch the sand, pour it from a vessel into a vessel, look through a magnifying glass, mix with water or lower it to the bottom of jars with water.

All children are very fond of experiments with different subjects. Therefore, experimenting in the middle group should be given considerable time!