Methodological recommendations “How to create a children's research project”

The question “What do you want to be when you grow up?” is asked very often in lessons. Moreover, they try to entice a child into one profession or another even during preschool preparation. This idea should not be underestimated. A baby who absorbs everything that surrounds him like a sponge begins to be interested not only in objects, but also in the actions of adults. This is how his idea of ​​himself and his future role in society is gradually formed.

Recently, an incomprehensible but interesting area of ​​business has occupied a special place in the imagination of children.

The guys, who already understand that money is a kind of “language” of people, plan to earn good money in the future. And at the same time work exclusively for yourself. This desire for financial and psychological independence is quite understandable.

How to prepare students for the future?

However, teenagers, as a rule, have a vague idea of ​​how a business project is developed and implemented. In this case, it is important for both the teacher and the parent to explain to the student that entrepreneurship requires serious emotional and material investments from a person. The key to future success is organization, the ability to correctly allocate resources and, of course, knowledge.

Each child initially has unique potential. The fundamental goal of the school and the education system as a whole is to provide opportunities for self-realization of the little person. The correct approach to identifying a student’s abilities will produce not only an intelligent member of society, but also a talented specialist who is sincerely involved in his or her professional field. Design and research activities will help achieve this noble goal.

What does a school project include?

The final product here can be anything: from a wall newspaper to a model of Ancient Rus'. After all, the main thing is to create something completely new for the student, previously unknown to him.

Solving design problems, one way or another, is included in the plan of every lesson in any discipline. The development of large-scale presentations and the practice of defending them are carried out mainly in extracurricular activities.

Ideally, the principle of this approach to training is based on 3 advantages:

• Self-determination
  (while working on a project, the student identifies for himself those areas of knowledge that resonate with him the most);
• Self-discipline

  (through trial and error, the child learns to independently organize his free and working time);

• Self-realization

  (having chosen the most interesting direction for himself, the student begins to use his potential as effectively as possible).

In addition, debates during the defense of a project are an extremely useful and exciting process. Even if a child is not destined to become a speaker or scientist, he will still have to present himself both at work and in society.

Olympics “Museums. Parks. Estates"

On September 1, the next season of the “Museums” Olympiad will begin. Parks. Estates." Schoolchildren in grades 1–11 will be able to expand their horizons by learning a lot about the history and culture of the city and country. Participants of the Olympiad will visit museums, parks and estates and complete tasks, for which they need to carefully study the corresponding exhibition. Pre-registration is required on the official project website.

Application of projects in practice

It is clear that in primary school children do not yet have the skills to independently search for the necessary information. Therefore, to begin with, a game form is suitable for them: simple observation of animals, plants, weather. As children grow older, their project tasks should gradually become more complex. The motivation will be practical experience from real life, namely the opportunity to earn money.

A certain idea is taken as a basis. For example, installing a terminal for charging gadgets on the station area. In this case, it’s not enough to want, you first need to think through everything, and then do it:

• Find out everything about the ways of implementation from the point of view of the law;
• Register as an individual entrepreneur (ask your parents);
• Estimate your chances of success, see what problems may arise and how to deal with them;
• Find a suitable location, as well as a responsible person with whom you need to coordinate the installation, etc.

It is clear that a ninth-grader cannot become an entrepreneur right away. But he will form a specific idea, confirmed by practice, of how he can launch his startup.

In theory, everything sounds attractive, of course, but in reality, teachers face certain difficulties:

• Where should the project start?
• How to motivate students;
• How should this approach be incorporated into the school curriculum without compromising the core base.

Benefits to help

The textbook “Design Workshop”, developed by practitioners A.V., deserves special attention. Leontovich, I.A. Smirnov, A.S. Savvichev. In lively and understandable language, the authors tell teachers and children about the intricacies of design and research activities:

• How to bring a project idea to a successful result;
• How to structure your work;
• Errors and ways to solve them are analyzed using examples;
• Advice is given on how to independently prepare for the delivery of the project.

"Big City Tournament"

On September 6, the Big City Tournament, the first large-scale eSports event of the new academic year, starts in Moscow. All residents of the capital can take part in it. Players will compete in 11 eSports disciplines of different genres. The tournament will be held online and will provide an opportunity for Muscovites of different generations to find new topics for communication, better understand each other, and expand the range of common interests. And young eSports players will be able to demonstrate their skills and establish themselves in a professional environment. Registration for the tournament ends on September 5 at 21:00.

Digital solutions

Several online resources will be of great help to teachers: the School Projects Laboratory being developed by Enlightenment (will be available in the fall of 2021) and Proobskills.

Work in the School Projects Laboratory includes 3 stages:

• The simplest level: a novice designer needs to fill in the empty fields of the template with a theme and bring the work to its logical conclusion;
• The second stage is a little more difficult. Here the child will have to adjust the structure of the project or research himself;
• The third level, where the student creates his own project independently, and the teacher acts as a curator.

The uniqueness of “Proobskills” lies in the provision of checklists to all participants. This methodical and meticulous approach has undeniable advantages:

• The relevance of the research will be justified at the initial stage of work;
• A clear and understandable formulation of the technical specifications, which will simplify the process of its implementation;
• Selection of required literature. During preparation, the child will learn to independently cut off unreliable sources of information;
• Tracking all the nuances of the research process. Using the designer’s checklist, the teacher will see how the work is progressing, what mistakes have been made, where the knowledge base or perseverance was lacking;
• A step-by-step analysis of the progress of work, its adjustment and final protection will enhance the quality of the result obtained.

"Animation in your smartphone"

In the 2021/2022 academic year, the creative project “Animation in your smartphone” will be held for the second time. Its participants will have to create short animated films on the topic of volunteering and good deeds. A special online course will help them learn mobile animation. The students’ work will be assessed by representatives of the animation and documentary film industries, volunteer organizations and media. The project will begin in November, and the winners will be awarded in April, on Russian Animation Day. Detailed information about the project will be published on the website.

Computer presentation vs stand for project work

The presentation of the project should be not only informative, but also interesting. Along with the computer presentation, which is common in every school, there is a poster demonstration. When the board displays the main points of the study in the form of diagrams, drawings or tables. Such a presentation should not be overloaded with data. She acts only as an assistant to the speaker and the audience.

Are there any significant differences between a computer show and a stand show? No, they are essentially the same thing. It’s just that in the presentation the slides go one after another, and on the stand blocks of information appear sequentially:

• Full name of the author and supervisor;
• Relevance of the presented topic;
• The purpose of the project and criteria for the effectiveness of the project (in the study we talk about confirming the hypothesis);
• Project concept (flowchart of work execution, demonstration of the essence of the research process and its objects: these can be area maps, diagrams, photos of samples and teams);
• Resources used.

If desired, the structure can include a list of references, an evaluation of effectiveness and acknowledgments, if any.

Research work of a preschooler. Example

Research work.
Topic: “The Magic of Soap Bubbles” CONTENTS: 1. Introduction……………………………………………………………………………….2 2. Main part: 2.1 Theoretical part…… ………………………………………..……4 2.2. Practical research……………………………………………………….……6 3. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………. 9 4. References…………………………..…………………………10 * * * 1. Introduction. It burns like a peacock's tail, What colors are there not in it! Purple, red, blue, green, yellow! A light ball is playing with lights in the open space. Now the sea turns blue in it, Now there is a fire burning in it... There were so many colors in it, There was such arrogance, And he was water and soap, a bloated mixture. S.Ya. Marshak. Relevance of the topic: In the summer, my mother bought me soap bubbles. My brother and sister and I had fun blowing bubbles. We did this while running, and from a height, and blew in different directions and with different strengths. It was fun, but not for long. The solution quickly ran out. We made a new solution. But we didn’t get the kind of bubbles we had. I became very interested in what needs to be added to the solution to make the bubbles bright, large and strong. I asked my mother to help me study the history of soap bubbles and the secret of the solution. Research topic : “The magic of soap bubbles.” Purpose of the study: To study theoretical material on the topic “Soap Bubbles”. Conduct research on soap bubble recipes and identify the most effective ones. Objectives: 1. Analyze the scientific literature on the topic being studied. 2. Conduct a study of the effectiveness of liquids for blowing soap bubbles. 3. Investigate the properties of soap bubbles obtained from different solutions, as well as using different detergents. 4. Draw conclusions. Object of study : solutions for soap bubbles. Subject of research : obtaining large bubbles from different solutions. Research methods: 1. Analysis of scientific literature on this study.
2. Observation of soap bubbles from various solutions. 3. Experiment. Hypothesis: 1. Suppose that soap bubbles are formed from a soap solution. 2. The size and stability of soap bubbles depends on the composition of the bubble liquid. 2. Main part.
2.1.Theoretical part In order to find out how and when soap bubbles appeared, first of all, my mother and I went to the library. Together with the librarian, we tried to find at least some information about soap bubbles. We looked through the children's encyclopedia "Everything about everything", "I want to know everything", and studied other children's encyclopedias. And no information. True, along the way I learned what soap is made from, what detergents are needed for, when the first powder was invented. Time, of course, was not wasted. But I haven’t found anything about soap bubbles yet. Then I asked my older brother to find information on the Internet. and we found... A soap bubble is a thin film of soapy water that forms a sphere with an iridescent surface. When and where exactly soap bubbles appeared remains a mystery to this day. But it is known for certain that during excavations of ancient Pompeii, archaeologists discovered unusual frescoes depicting young Pompeians blowing soap bubbles. This means that bubbles delighted children and adults back in the days of ancient Pompeii. Apparently they had their own secrets for making soap. There is a legend about the appearance of the first soap bubble: one fine day, when soap was finally created, the king, not joking at all, ordered everyone to wash themselves with soap under pain of death. And everyone washed their washcloths that day. Only one old shoemaker named Pumpatus sat hidden in his shoebox. More than anything else, Pumpatus hated washing his neck. Footsteps were heard outside the window. Two huge guards took Pumpatus by the armpits and five minutes later they were leading him to the city prison. In the room where Pumpatus was locked, there was a bathtub with soapy foam and a lot of towels. "Agree?" - asked two huge guards. "Never!" - answered Pumpatus. And he was left to smoke his pipe for the last time. Pumpatus took a drag and suddenly saw a beautiful transparent ball fly out of the tube. The ball flew out the window and shone in the Sun: small rainbows were jumping in it. After the first ball, the second one flew out... Pumpatus looked with all his eyes at the miracle taking place. The passers-by below also raised their heads to look at it. Soon a crowd gathered and a commotion began. Everyone, of course, forgot to think about the fact that Pumpatus was supposed to be executed. The professor, who was invited to figure it out, examined Pumpatus' pipe. “Soap scum got into the pipe. That’s what it’s all about,” the professor announced to the crowd outside the window. Pumpatus, of course, was not executed, and after that soap bubbles became popular not only in one small kingdom, but throughout the whole world! Even in the paintings of Flemish artists of the 18th century, there were often images of children blowing soap bubbles through a clay straw. In the 18th and 19th centuries, children blew soap bubbles using soapy water left over from washing. There is even a myth about the fragility of a soap bubble, but it was dispelled by the Englishman James Dewar, who preserved the soap bubble in a sealed vessel with double walls. An Indiana physics teacher managed to preserve a bubble in a glass jar for 340 days. The students surpassed the teacher - their bubbles were kept under lock and key for many years. A soap bubble is a thin multilayer film of soapy water filled with air, usually in the form of a ball with an iridescent surface. The bubble film is three-layer: it consists of a thin layer of water sandwiched between two layers of soap (soap + water + soap). This fun has long attracted children and adults. Soap bubbles usually last only a few seconds and burst when touched or spontaneously. 2.2 Practical research. After studying the theory and collecting information, I told the children in the group about it. The guys were very interested, they were so interested, they constantly asked me about everything. And then teacher Ekaterina Alexandrovna suggested that we conduct an experiment in kindergarten. And we all started the practical part of my research together. There are many recipes for making soap bubbles. Some of the composition of the bubbles is kept in the strictest confidence, because they allow one to blow truly gigantic soap bubbles, which are even included in the Guinness Book of Records. Others can be found in books or on the Internet. For my work, I chose several recipes. Recipe No. 1. This is the easiest way to make soap bubbles at home. Take 100 ml. dishwashing detergent and add 50 ml of glycerin and 300 ml of water, mix everything thoroughly and you're done! Glycerin is precisely the substance that makes the walls of a soap bubble stronger, and the bubble itself, accordingly, long-lived. Recipe No. 2. It's also not complicated at all. Add 50 ml of clear baby shower soap to a container with 60 ml of water. Add half a teaspoon of sugar. Mix everything and use it. Recipe No. 3. This recipe is much more difficult to make, but it produces bubbles that don’t burst. Water - 600 ml. (hot) add glycerin - 300 ml, drip - 20 drops of ammonia, and pour washing powder - 50 g. The entire composition is thoroughly mixed, infused for about three days, filtered and placed in the refrigerator for about twelve hours. Recipe No. 4. Take soap shavings - 4 tbsp. spoons add 400 ml of hot water. Leave for one week, and then add sugar + gelatin - 2 teaspoons. The solution is ready and you can try it. Recipe No. 5 You need to take 40 ml of baby shampoo without tears, add 60 ml of water, 2 teaspoons of sugar and 1 drop of food coloring.
Progress of the study:
Stage 1 Preparatory. For this experiment we needed the following substances: - distilled water - dishwashing liquid - glycerin - baby transparent shower soap - sugar - ammonia - washing powder - soap - baby shampoo - food coloring - gelatin. - kettle (boiling water). As well as cups, measuring containers, blowing tubes, scales. Stage 2 Preparing soap bubbles.
The compositions of all soap solutions were observed.
While blowing soap bubbles from different solutions, we made observations, took measurements and entered the data into a table. Soap bubble composition testing table. Composition No. Test ….. 1 ….. 2 ….. 3 ….. 4 ….. 5 Soap bubble lifetime ….. 5 sec ….. 10 sec ….. 2 sec ….. 4 sec ….. 8 sec Average size ..... 3 cm ..... 7 cm ..... 3 cm ..... 5 cm ..... 8 cm Maximum size ..... 8 cm ..... 10 cm ..... 5 cm ..... 5 cm ..... 10 cm Out of ten it turned out ..... 7/10 ..... 10/10 ..... 6/10 ..... 3/10 ..... 8/10 Of these small ones ..... 4 ..... 3 ….. 5 ….. 3 ….. 5 Of these large ones ….. 3 ….. 7 ….. 1 ….. — ….. 3 According to experiments, the victory is awarded to soap solution No. 2, and also practically divides with it the first place was solution No. 1 and 5. All other compositions did not show the best results. 3. Conclusion. The hypothesis of the formation of soap bubbles from a soap solution turned out to be correct: soap bubbles actually contain soap and detergents. But in addition to these main substances, you also need to add several components, the main ones of which are water, glycerin, a little sugar, food coloring, gelatin. The water for the solution should be soft or distilled. We have seen from our own experience that the best that can be is laundry and baby soap. For long-lived bubbles, it is recommended to add pure glycerin to the resulting solution. In general, any cleaning liquid will work for bubbles, but the best results will be obtained using the ingredients described. Making a soap solution for blowing soap bubbles at home is a completely doable and interesting activity. Blowing soap bubbles lifts your mood, forgets all your problems, and actually develops your lungs well. All this has a beneficial effect on health. References: 1. How to make soap bubbles 2. Malofeeva N. N. Big book of the most interesting facts. – M.: JSC “ROSMEN-press”, 2010. – P.149 3. Soap bubbles (video).

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Floating schools project

Appeared in 2002 in Bangladesh.

Goal: To ensure continuous education for children during floods during the rainy season, when it is impossible to reach permanent schools.

Every year during the monsoon season, Bangladesh experiences floods, preventing thousands of children, especially from poor families, from getting to school and forcing schools to close. To solve this problem, the non-profit organization Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha came up with floating schools: now, if a student cannot go to school, the school itself comes to the student.

It works like this: at first, the boat plays the role of a school bus - it goes along the route, periodically stopping to pick up the children. When everyone is assembled, the boat docks and the lesson begins. In this way, the boat works all day: training is carried out in three shifts - the latest lessons for working students take place in the evening after sunset, and electricity for this is provided by solar panels.

Each floating school is equipped with a classroom for 30 people, at least one laptop, books and gadgets. Some schools have full-fledged libraries with 1,500 or more books, several laptops with Internet access, printers and mobile phones. Education for now is only primary, up to the fifth grade.

These schools educate not only children, but also teenagers, older people and adult women: one of the main goals of the project’s creators is to combat gender discrimination and provide women with equal opportunities. In addition to floating schools for children, the creators of the program organize floating training centers for adults, where they are taught about modern methods of agriculture, climate change, government structure, human rights, and employment opportunities.

In addition, the work of floating clinics is organized according to the same principle: they moor to villages, conduct medical examinations on board, give patients the necessary medications free of charge, and organize educational events for village residents.

United World Schools Organization

It appeared in 2008 in Cambodia, and now also operates in Myanmar and Nepal.

Goal: to provide basic education to children from remote and poor regions not covered by public education systems.

United World Schools is a UK-based charity that opens schools in the world's poorest countries, where children do not have access to even a primary education. UWS organizes schools in the most remote and inaccessible regions of each country, where the national education system has not yet reached.

Founder Chris Howarth opened UWS in 2008 after working as a volunteer teacher in Cambodia. Today, UWS schools operate in Cambodia (115 schools and 13,500 students), Myanmar (68 schools and 4,000 students) and Nepal (37 schools and 4,500 students).

In parallel with the opening of schools, the organization is actively recruiting and training teachers from the local population, which, among other things, helps maintain local culture and language. A separate task is women's education: in many villages, school founders have to convince parents to send all their children to study, and not just boys. And while education is the main goal of the UWS, they also have to deal with more utilitarian issues, including providing residents with safe drinking water and training them in basic sanitation and hygiene standards.

SignLab Project

Launched in 2021 in Norway. Today, more than 10,000 Norwegians use the platform, including more than 2,000 friends and family members of deaf children.

Goal: to make sign language training accessible from anywhere in the world.

There are approximately 64 million parents worldwide today who are raising children who are deaf or hard of hearing. And only one in ten such parents speaks sign language. The lack of accessible courses to teach sign language prevents children from fully communicating with their families.

To solve this problem, the SignLab project has developed a digital platform for teaching sign language - currently it is only available in Norwegian on iOS and Android, but the team plans to expand and by 2021 cover many languages, for example English, Spanish, Italian, French, Chinese and others. Using the platform, you can learn sign language from anywhere in the world: online or offline, at home or in the classroom - you just need access to a computer or smartphone.

Users learn gestures and movements through video tutorials (pre-adapted to the specific language). Gamification and reward systems motivate and make the process fun, and artificial intelligence analyzes the student’s progress and creates an individual curriculum for him, taking into account his achievements and gaps. In each new country, the curriculum is developed in collaboration with that country's sign language teachers.

International School "Letovo"

Opened in 2021 in the Moscow region.

Goal: to provide gifted children from all over Russia with a world-class education and unlock their potential.

A boarding school for capable and motivated children opened two years ago in New Moscow. The creators studied the experience of twenty of the best schools in the world and took all the good things from there: for example, from the British experience - the boarding system (this makes it easier to form a team spirit, and there is no need to waste time on the road), and from the American experience - a huge selection of clubs, sections, student clubs and other non-academic activities.

The school campus is a complex of educational and residential buildings on an area of ​​60 hectares: a campus for students, houses for teachers and their families, gyms and laboratories, a library and a swimming pool, a pine grove and even its own orchard. Teachers are selected no less carefully than students: children here are taught by the authors of books, programs, courses, and mentors of winners of subject Olympiads.

The school does not have a uniform schedule and classes: students create their own curriculum depending on their educational goals and where they plan to go after school. The first half of the day is occupied by compulsory subjects (their composition depends on the profile chosen by the child), the second by non-academic courses, which the student completely chooses himself.

Education at the school is bilingual, and each graduate can receive not only a Russian certificate, but also an international diploma.

Tuition is paid, but most of it is covered by funds that the school raises itself - scholarships are formed from charitable donations. The school also has an endowment - an endowment fund. The money from there goes to the development of the entire project.

Innovation Competition in Education

KIvo is also on the Map of Leaders of Innovation in Education, since it itself is an innovation, a startup. “We developed it according to a scheme familiar to all beginning entrepreneurs,” says KIvo director Diana Koroleva. “But very soon the competition also became a testing ground for research, and we managed to collect a solid database.” Thanks to KIvo, the Center for the Study of Innovation in Education was created at the Higher School of Economics, which explores topics such as the landscape of the educational innovation market, the characteristics of teams of innovative projects and the characteristics of innovators themselves.

Educational complex "Point of the Future"

Opened in September 2021 in Irkutsk.
Goal: to socialize orphans, to teach all students to manage their lives responsibly.

Social adaptation of orphans is a problem that has been discussed for many years. As a rule, orphans leave traditional schools without independent living skills. This is not surprising: over the years of education, children do not gain experience making their own decisions; they are required to do something completely different - to obey and follow instructions. It is this approach that the founders of the Future Point project want to change.

The uniqueness of the center is not only in its unusual infrastructure, although one complex combines a state-of-the-art school, a kindergarten, sports facilities, a Center for Social and Psychological Support, as well as a cottage community for foster families - 27 buildings in total. The main feature is in relation to students: in “Future Point” the emphasis is placed on the subjectivity of each student.

Unlike a passive “object” of learning, as in regular schools, children in ]learn to make their own decisions[/anchor] and take responsibility for them. Starting from the elementary grades, and the further - the more, students are given a choice: what subjects and extracurricular activities they will fill their individual curriculum with, what projects they will implement, how they will manage their time for self-preparation. It is important that children are not left alone with this choice. They are supported by curators and tutors: the former are a kind of managers, the latter are mentors who guide, help to live through difficult situations, analyze and comprehend experience. But this is precisely help and support; the final decisions are still up to the child.

Another difference between Point of the Future is the composition of the students. Research shows that the socialization of orphans is most successful when 15% of adopted children and 85% of children from originally intact families study together. This is exactly the proportion that is observed when recruiting students to the Future Point. To date, 19 foster families are participating in the project, each of which was provided with a house with furniture and appliances in close proximity to the educational complex.

One of the conditions for foster families to get into the Future Point is a willingness to become professional foster parents who regularly take children from orphanages. As for children from originally intact families, they get to the “Future Point” in order of priority: those who first submitted an application on the site are accepted, regardless of the child’s abilities or academic performance. Training is free.

Starting next year, priority for enrollment will be given to children from the same family - this decision was made by the founder of Points of the Future, the New Home Foundation. This is fully consistent with the values ​​of the project: family is at the center of the concept.