Material preparation in collective teaching and activities is also an important part of activity design. The preparation of active substances can be the choice of finished products or the collection or production. The activity materials must ensure the children's operational needs in the activity and the achievement of the activity goals.
1. Prepare materials related to the activity objectives.
The first thing to consider when preparing activity materials is the requirements of activity objectives. What materials should be prepared to help children achieve their goals through this activity? For example, observation activities need to prepare typical and representative observation objects and provide observation tools when necessary.
Classifying activities should prepare sorting boxes and objects for children, and the number and characteristics of objects should be convenient for children to classify. During the measuring activities, the measuring objects and necessary measuring tools should be prepared. In this way, providing materials around the goal can ensure that materials play their due role in the activities.
2. Prepare materials related to the activity objectives.
When preparing materials, we should not only consider the activity objectives, but also consider the structure of the materials themselves. If the material has rich structure, it can promote children to gain more knowledge, discover and even create in the process of operating the material.
The so-called structural nature of materials refers to the characteristics of a material or a group of materials, the relationship between different materials and the explorability and availability of materials. The richer the material structure prepared by the teacher, the richer the teacher's understanding of the material structure, which is more conducive to children's operation.
3. Prepare corresponding amount of materials.
When preparing materials, teachers should not only consider what materials to provide, but also consider how much materials to provide. Only by providing sufficient materials can we ensure the operational needs of each child in the activities. However, different activities have different requirements for the quantity of materials. If it is a desktop operation data, it is generally necessary to prepare a copy for each child to ensure that they can operate independently.
You can give each group some small experiments or problem-solving activities that need cooperation. For perceptual observation activities, it should depend on the situation. Some require one person to give a piece of material, some can give a piece of material in a group, and some larger observation objects can even observe the same object collectively in the whole class.