Child Friendly Space "Fat Balloons" Activity Summary

Chen Jining, the former principal of Tsinghua University, once said: What China needs in the future society is the kind of creative talents who have a rigorous logical thinking and can respond to changes and come up with unique ideas. To this end, a series of scientific experiments were designed for child-friendly spaces. This activity encourages children to ask questions, think and act through several small scientific experiments, so as to achieve the purpose of cultivating children's thinking ability. There were 11 families participating in the event, with 33 direct beneficiaries and 132 indirect beneficiaries. The location of the activity is the 104 Youth Activity Center of the Chengbei Community Comprehensive Service Center in Quzhou.

Scientific experiment scene

In order to increase the children ’s sense of experience without losing the effect of activities, the original three-hour course was condensed into one and a half hours. Volunteer Teacher Liao and the project team did a lot of preliminary preparations. In addition, they let their children The spirit of participating in voluntary work and serving the community's families is worth learning by all nonprofits.

The scientific principle of the "blooming balloon" is that through a certain proportion of soda powder + citric acid + water, a chemical reaction occurs in a mineral water bottle to form carbon dioxide. Because carbon dioxide gas has the functions of heat absorption and heat insulation, carbon dioxide gas is often Other gases in the air are hot and run up as hot as boiling water. As a result, the balloon over the bottle slowly "gets fat".

Volunteer Teacher Liao is demonstrating "Fat balloon"

Little volunteers sign in to assist participating children

Balloon experiment with parent-child interaction

Children are operating scientific experiments-simulating a volcanic eruption

Kids excited about scientific experiments to simulate volcanic eruption

Scientific experiment-melting iceberg scene

The child was active and did not sit quietly in class, which was what we expected. Therefore, we try to experiment the scene is mobile, not fixed in a location, which is in line with the development characteristics of children. This attempt also did not affect the effectiveness of the campaign. Through the return visit of random activities, the children were impressed by this scientific experiment activity. This has accumulated valuable experience for our later work.

At the scene of the activity, a seven-year-old boy Dongdong's questioning and answering questions were particularly outstanding. After communicating with parents, he learned that parents have attached great importance to their children's questioning behavior since childhood and gave a lot of affirmation, so the child's performance ability So excellent. Questioning represents the appearance of active thinking. Do parents protect and encourage their children when they question or ask questions? It is worth our reflection.