How to teach the child the concept of the Universe
How to explain to our children the immensity of the Universe,? How to make them internalize an abstract and relative idea? At what age are they prepared to understand and internalize it? There are many questions that arise to parents when talking about this topic. Abstract concepts such as the Unive
How to explain to our children the immensity of the Universe,? How to make them internalize an abstract and relative idea? At what age are they prepared to understand and internalize it? There are many questions that arise to parents when talking about this topic.Abstract concepts such as the Universe are very difficult to explain to children. And much more if we try to locate the child in a spatial way within the universe. Children tend to focus on what they have around them but everything that escapes their vision is difficult to understand at a spatial level.
Maria Montessori has a system for children to understand the
greatness of the Universe de and to be able to locate children within it. I tell you how you can teach the child the concept of the Universe. How to teach the child the concept of the Universe María Montessori was a pedagogue, educator, scientist, doctor, psychiatrist, philosopher, anthropologist, biologist and psychologist. A reference in pedagogy, which expressed a
model of education
, that increasingly has more adept parents, since it is a good alternative to traditional education. For her the adult can only offer the child the necessary means and teach him to use them, and it is the child who must develop himself; what she calls: self-education. In the complicated subject of explaining to the childrenthe space and our place within it,
Maria Montessori, she made it easy for the parents, and gives a series of explanations that can help us a lot when it comes to telling the children in a practical way. In his book "The Education of Human Potentials", he developed the " Principles of Cosmic Education
", which he adapted for the primary curriculum.In it he elaborated a "Cosmic Concept of Education" based on the statement that "The universe contains everything, included in it
". It also contemplates that people are interrelated with nature according to a central idea "The Cosmic Plan", in which all, consciously or unconsciously, respond to the great purpose of life, this guides the child in the path of self-knowledgeAccording to her, the child around the age of six shows a predisposition to investigatethe reason for things, as he had never before raised it. For this reason, if the idea of the universe is presented to the child in a proper way, it will be possible to awaken more than curiosity, it will make him feel the
need to inquire . To awaken your interest in this topic, we must not provide them with isolated data and knowledge, but rather show them the global idea,interrelating all the concepts at the same time. This way we will explain, through a game that is similar to the
Matrioska dolls que, that the Universe contains everything, and everything is inside of it; the child is also inside the universe and is part of the "Everything". We have designed a craft that can help you to explain this concept that covers from the smallest, where we live, to the immensity of the Universe. This is theGame of the cosmic boxes
, a series of boxes that are put inside each other to show the child the way in which everything is immersed within the Universe.
