Where does the rain come from and where does the water in streams go in summer? Your baby has probably asked you similar questions, and if not, then he will definitely ask you. You know that the water cycle in nature is to blame for everything. But how to explain such a complex topic to a small child? After all, he will not even want to listen to boring speeches about the complex physical mechanisms of evaporation and condensation ... But your baby will listen to a fairy tale with pleasure. Therefore, we will explain in the form of a fairy tale. A fairy tale about a little drop - a traveler. And it was like this...

Once upon a time there was a small drop. She and her droplet friends were sitting in a big cloud, laughing and chatting merrily.

Day by day the cloud got bigger and bigger, until at one point it rained on the ground.

"Farewell!" - only Droplet managed to shout to her girlfriends, as she was already flying towards the ground.

Just a few seconds and the Droplet fell into a small stream. “Oh, where did I go? And how much water is here! And where are we going?" Droplet wondered.

The brook, merrily murmuring, carried our Droplet to a small lake, into which it flowed. It was here that Droplet was even more surprised. Never in her life had she seen so much water!

Everything seemed new and interesting to her. Noticing small crucians swimming in the lake, she thought: “Who are these? You should definitely get to know them!”

But I didn’t have time, because at that moment the sun warmed up, and the Droplet evaporated, in other words, turned into steam. Now she was no longer rapidly falling down to the ground, but smoothly soared up to the clouds. "I'm flying!" whispered Droplet.

When she was already far enough from the ground, she felt that it was getting cool. "I think I'm turning into a water drop again," thought Droplet.

At that time, a beautiful white cloud floated right next to her, and Droplet gladly joined him. The cloud consisted of many other small droplets, which vied with each other to tell their friends about the extraordinary adventures they experienced there on earth.

After reading the fairy tale, it is necessary to clarify that in the world, billions of small droplets constantly evaporate, draining the reservoirs, and fall from the clouds with rain, filling them. And in winter, the droplets freeze completely, and snow falls. This is called the water cycle in nature.

Program content: To consolidate the children's understanding of the properties of water; expand ideas about the properties of water and air (expands when heated and contracts when cooled). To form in children accessible knowledge about the water cycle in nature. Develop the cognitive interest of the child in the process of experimentation. Teach children to test their observations by experimenting. Activate children's vocabulary, coherent speech.

Preliminary work: reading literature: L.L. Sikoruk "Filka for kids", reviewing the encyclopedia for preschoolers, "The world around us."

Equipment: a picture of a balloon, a plastic bottle, a balloon, a globe, pictures of a river, a lake, a sea, a mirror, a thermos, bowls, glasses, spoons, molds, watering cans, chart cards, ribbons, funnels, cotton pads, sugar, milk.

GCD progress

Educator: Children do you like to travel? What can you travel on? (Answers of children). I propose to use a balloon today. Do you mind? We need an important assistant along the way. He is mentioned in the riddle:

Passes through the nose to the chest

And it's on its way back.

He is invisible, and yet

We cannot live without it. (Air).

(I open the balloon image).

Educator: Tell me: why is there a burner under the ball? (Children's guess). Now we will find out what happens to air when it is heated.

Experience 1. Put an empty balloon on the neck of a plastic bottle. Soak it for one minute in hot water.

Educator: What do you see? (The balloon is inflated). This is because the air in the bottle heats up, expands and fills the balloon, and it inflates. (I put the bottle with the ball in cold water).

Educator: What do you see? (The balloon deflates). Why do you think this is happening? (Children's guess). So, when the air is cooled, it compresses and exits the balloon - it is blown away. Conclusion: When heated, the air expands and fills the balloon. When the burner is turned off, the air gradually cools and contracts - the balloon deflates.

Educator: Let's go flying. Take your seats. Look at the globe. This is what our Earth looks like from space. What is blue on the globe? (Water). Yes, it is water that covers 3/4 of the earth. Water is the source of life on earth. She hears, feels, remembers. Who needs water and why? (Children show pictures and tell).

Educator: Indeed, it is difficult to imagine life without water. Attention! Here we are! (Children leave). Guys, where are we? (Hang pictures depicting a river, lake, sea). What do you think? This is some kind of water kingdom. (Looking at the pictures). We approach the poster "The water cycle in nature." (Reviewing it). Water in nature is in constant motion from bottom to top, from top to bottom: on the ground it heats up and, turning into steam, rises, high above the ground it cools, becomes water again and returns to the ground in the form of rain, snow, hail.

Educator: Guys, what do you think, how can you call people who make various scientific discoveries? How do they do it? (By experiments and experiments). What is the name of the place where scientists conduct their experiments? (Laboratory). I want to invite you to dream. Imagine that you, too, are scientists and want to test your guesses. To do this, you have to conduct several experiments. I invite you to our laboratory. How do you think scientists should behave when performing experiments?

Rules for safe behavior:

1. Don't push your neighbor while you work.
2. Look first, then repeat.
3. Take it out and put it back.
4. Be careful with hot water.

Experience 2. Pour water from glass to glass. What does water do? (flows). Drop the sand mold. What is happening to him? He lays down in a heap. Do you think sand is a liquid?

Conclusion: So water is liquid, sand is loose. Show, on a card - a diagram, that water is a liquid.

Guys, what do you think about the color of the water. Let's make sure the water is colorless. Two identical glasses: one contains water, the other contains milk. Place a glass of water and a glass of milk on the picture. Teacher: Can you see what is in the picture? (Where there is water, it is visible, but where milk is not).

Conclusion: Water is clear, but milk is not.

Guys, take a glass of clean water and smell it. Does the water have an odor?

Conclusion: Water is odorless.

Experience 3. Put a spoonful of sugar in a glass, stir. What happened? (dissolved).

Conclusion: Water is a solvent for some substances.

Experience 4. Pour the water into different containers. What form has the water taken? (The shape of the dishes in which it was poured).

Experience 5. What happens to water when you heat it up and bring it to a boil. Let's see. I have a thermos on my desk. The water in it is hot. I open the thermos. What do you see? (Steam). The water turns into a gas called steam. It spreads throughout the room. But why can't we smell it? (Answer). Show a card - a diagram. And now I will cover the container with a mirror. Tell me what do we see? (Answers). Correctly. Now the water does not boil, the steam cools down and turns back into water. This change is called condensation.

Conclusion: Water can change its state when it is cooled and heated, but it can also turn into water again.

The game: Guys, tell me, where does the stream begin? (children's answers). That's right, a stream begins with a spring that appears from the ground, many streams connect, what happens? Let's make our fontanel from ribbons. (Children, to the music, connect their hands with ribbons, forming a fontanelle. Then they model a stream, a river, a lake, waves on the water from the ribbons).

Guys, what changes when the seasons change? (ambient temperature).

What time of year is coming soon? (Winter). If the temperature drops, what do you think will happen to the water? (Water will become solid, its temperature will drop below zero.) Show cards - diagrams.

Conclusion: Yes, water freezes: it turns into a solid substance - ice. Snow and ice are also water, only in a solid state.

Take an ice cube in your hand. What do you feel?

Guys, I often see in winter how many children take snow in their mouths. Can it be done? (Not). Why? (Answers of children). Let's experimentally find out if the snow is clean on the street?

Experience 6. Let's take the melt water that remains after the snow melts, and we will pour it into a funnel with a filter. What kind of water was in the bowl? (Dirty). What was the filter?

Educator: Remember, children: you can’t taste the snow, because it is dirty and because the throat can hurt from the cold.

Guys, today we learned a lot about water. Let's remember in what three states can water be? Water gives us life. But not all water is suitable for drinking by humans and animals. In the seas, the water is salty, and in rivers and lakes it is fresh. We drink fresh water. But there is less fresh water, so it needs to be protected. How can you save water? (Answers).

Human! Remember forever:

The symbol of life on Earth is water!

Save it and take care

We are not alone on the planet!

Educator: It's time for us to go back to kindergarten. We take places. As we fly back, let's say thanks to the water. Remember: whatever you say will come back to you. Here we are at kindergarten. Landing.

Educator MKDOU No. 16 "Sun",

Leningrad region, Lodeynoye Pole,Russia

Educational area: knowledge.

Type of children's activity: cognitive research.

Type of direct educational activity: integrated.

Age group: children of preschool age.

Program content:

Educational tasks:
- To acquaint children with the water cycle in nature.
- To consolidate children's knowledge about the properties of water.
- To develop in children the ability to observe, build sentences, suggest ways to test them, draw conclusions.
- Cultivate a sense of empathy for the native nature.

Development tasks: develop observation, logical thinking, cognitive interest of children in the process of experimentation.

Educational tasks: to cultivate accuracy when conducting experiments, friendly relations between children, the habit of working together.
Cultivate a sense of empathy for nature.

Vocabulary work: explain to children the concepts of "evaporated", "thick", "cycle".

Individual work: to activate inactive children Polina M., Kostya S., Anya M. to form their ideas and ideas, supposed guesses, hypotheses.

Previous work: learning physical education minutes, folk sayings about water, reading stories and fairy tales about water, looking at illustrations and viewing slides of the “Water Cycle”, guessing riddles.

Equipment and materials: for each child jars jars of different shapes, sheets of paper, felt-tip pens, measuring cups, water, milk, a saucer, a kettle with hot water, the “Water Cycle” scheme, magnifiers according to the number of children, a saucer with melt water, a thermos, napkins, cups, spoons .

Literature:
1. From birth to school: an approximate basic general educational program of preschool education / ed. N. S. Veraksy, T. S. Komarova, M. A. Vasilyeva. - Moscow: Mosaic-synthesis, 2010. - 235 p.
2. Ryzhova N. A. Our home is nature. - Moscow, 2001. - 115 p.
3. Savenkov A. N. Children's research as a method of teaching older preschoolers - Moscow, 2007. - 211 p.

Methodical methods:
- teacher's story about water;
- use of multimedia;
- questions for children;
- surprise moments;
- the child's story according to the scheme "The water cycle in nature";
- a story about the meaning of water;
- Experimental activities;
- artistic word (riddles);
- physical education minute with musical accompaniment "Journey of a droplet";
- analysis.

Integration with educational areas:
“Labor” (section “Development of labor activity”), “Socialization” (section “Introduction to elementary generally accepted norms and rules of relationships with peers and adults”), “Communication” (section “Development of oral speech components, practical mastery of speech norms”) , "Reading fiction" (section "Formation of interest and need" in reading).

Lesson progress:

Children enter the hall, greet the guests.

Educator: Guys, I invite you to the laboratory, where we will conduct various experiments. Children, in our laboratory we turn into scientists. And what we will explore, you will learn by guessing my riddle:
In the world there is no stronger
Do not hold it in your hands.
In the world there is no more violent
And do not overtake on a horse.
Children: Water.
Educator: Water is the most amazing substance on Earth. You are well acquainted with water: more than once you splashed in the rain, splashing puddles, launched boats in the stream, splashed in the river or in the sea. But let's take a closer look at it - get acquainted with the properties of this extraordinary substance. Guys, we met a new word - substance. What substances do you know? (children's answers). Yes, water, sand, clay, ice, snow. These are different substances. Each substance has its own properties. What properties do you think water has?
Children: Colorless, odorless, transparent.
Educator: Who do you think needs water?
Children: Humans, animals, plants. Water is essential for all living organisms on Earth.
Educator: Does a person need water?
Children: I believe that people need water for drinking, for watering plants.
Educator: What does a person do with water?
Children: Watering, drinking, cooking, washing, bathing.
Educator: Do you think water can harm a person?
Children: Floods may occur.
Educator: You can't do a lot of simple, ordinary things without water, water is indispensable for anything.
A lot of it is a disaster!
Not enough of it - trouble!
We always need her
More than even water.
Educator: Many properties of water can be found if you arm yourself with patience. We also need patience and attention, because we will conduct experiments.
Guys, what do you think, water is what kind of substance, liquid or loose. And how can this be checked? I suggest doing this experience. Take the narrowest jar and fill it with water. Then pour this water into the widest jar (Then another child tries.)
Now tell me what happens to water if it is poured into dishes of different shapes?
Children: Water takes on a variety of vessel shapes. Water is a liquid.
Educator: Tell me, is sand a liquid?
Children: No.
Educator: Try to make heaps on the sand and water on a tray. So the substances are different. Water is a liquid. Sand - loose: lies to itself in a pile and is not going to crumble ( remove the trays , put others) .
So , we have defined the first property of water - it is a liquid. What color do you think the water is? (Answers of children).
Educator: To make sure that the water is colorless, take two identical glasses. One contains water, the other milk. With felt-tip pens, draw an object on a piece of paper. Everyone has a drawing with a figure on the table, draw it to make some kind of object. Let's put a glass of water on the picture. Let's look at our picture from above. What did you see?
Children: Drawing (sun ....).
Educator: Now let's put a glass of milk in the same place. What will we discover?
Children: The picture is not visible.
Educator: What can be the conclusion?
Children: The pattern is visible through water, but not through milk.
Educator: Guys! And now I suggest a little rest. Let's play the game "Journey of a droplet" (Children put on hats - “droplets”. The teacher puts on a paper crown with the image of a cloud).
Educator: I'm a cloud mom, and you guys, my little droplets.
(Children surround the mother-cloud, jump around her, dance in a round dance).
Children: Mom, let us go for a walk on Earth.
Educator: Okay, my little drops, I'll let you go for a walk on Earth. Promise me you'll be good, don't mess around. I ask you to water the plants, wash the Earth and return home.

Music sounds. Children scatter in different directions, then gather together, stand one after another, forming streams. There should be several streams. Then, at the command of the teacher, the streams are connected together. The river flows into the ocean, the children make a wide circle. Mama-cloud reminds:
- Droplets, it's time to go home. The sun appears.
Children circle one by one, return to the cloud. the cloud asks to tell about what they did on Earth. mother cloud listens to all the answers of children:
- I watered forests, fields, meadows.
- I washed the ground.
- I watered the plants and flowers.
- I watered the children who were walking along the street.
- I watered the animals.
- I accidentally fell into a puddle ....

Educator: Young people, please take your seats. I will tell you one story. Listen to what happened one summer with Yegorka.
Yegor decided to paint with new colors. He poured water into a saucer. I prepared a brush, paper, paints. As soon as I settled down at the open window, the guys in the yard began to play football.
Egor abandoned his drawing and ran into the yard.
Yegorka came back late, he wanted to draw, lo and behold, there was no water in the saucer. What?
- Light! he called to his sister. Did you pour out my water?
- Not! - answered Svetlana.
Egor sat down and thought: where did the water go? Missing? Disappeared? Evaporated? Where do you think the water went?
Children: Evaporated, turned into steam.
Educator: Another property of water is that it evaporates. Where do you think the water has gone? Water, as invisible, disappears. And how can you check that the water is evaporating? We will conduct another experiment and make sure that the water evaporates. Let's take two saucers. I will bring one saucer (with a mark) with a mark to the spout of the kettle, from which steam comes. How to become a saucer, let's see. Touch one saucer and another.
Children: One saucer is wet, the other is dry.
Educator: Pairs on one saucer. What is steam?
Children: Steam is water droplets.
Educator: Why is it called invisible?
Children: Because water evaporates and disappears.
Educator: Where did Egorka's water disappear from the saucer?
Children: Evaporated.
Educator: Let's take a look at the Water Cycle. Learn how water travels above the earth.

The teacher invites the child to tell according to the scheme.
Water travels in nature
She never disappears
Now turn into snow, then turn into ice,
It melts and goes on a hike again.
Over the mountain peaks
wide valleys,
Suddenly up into the sky
It will turn into rain.
Take a look around
Take a look at nature
Surrounds you everywhere and always
This sorceress is our water!

Educator: Where does the rain water go? / children's answers/. Part of it goes into the ground, and in some places puddles remain. Think about where the puddles go.
Children: Evaporate.
Educator: Here is another property of water - it evaporates.
Guys, can any water be drunk? Can melt water be drunk? Let's compare melt water and tap water. I suggest you examine the water through a magnifying glass. What did you see? Even the purest white snow is dirtier than tap water.
Pure snow is dirty melt water, not suitable for drinking by humans.
And what can be done with melt water? melt water is good to water the plants. Let's water our flowers.
Guys, you are convinced that melt water is not suitable for drinking. There are many microbes in melt water that can harm our health. So you can't eat snow.
In order for you not to get sick, I made vitamin tea from boiled water. what vitamin teas do you know?
Children: With mint, wild rose, from medicinal plants.
Educator: What medicinal plants do you know?
Children: Rosehip, nettle, chamomile, mint, lemon balm, coltsfoot, lime blossom, St. John's wort…
Educator: Who knows how to make herbal tea?
Children: Brew with boiling water and let it brew.
Educator: And from what medicinal herb my tea, you should guess when you try it.
Children try vitamin tea and say what medicinal herb it is brewed from.
Children: From mint.
tea drinking
Educator: After all our experiments, remind me what properties of water we met?
Children: Water is liquid, colorless, evaporates.
The teacher invites the children to find the symbols for the properties of water and put them on a typesetting canvas.
Educator: It is necessary to take care of nature, to water and not to litter reservoirs.
What do you like most about our lab?
Children: Experiences.
Educator: On this scientific work came to an end.

Nomination: Kindergarten, preparatory group, senior group, Abstracts of classes, GCD, experimental activities
Title: Abstract for senior preschool age on experimental activities "The water cycle in nature"

Position: educator
Place of work: MBDOU "Kindergarten No. 125 "Dubok" of a general developmental type with priority implementation of activities for the cognitive and speech development of children"
Location: Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic

A fairy tale about the adventure of a small drop and we conduct an experiment about the movement of water in nature

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SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE FOR CHILDREN "WATER CYCLE IN A PACKAGE"

1. We need one ziplock bag, water, blue food coloring, extra hands and a little imagination.

2. Tint a small amount of water with 4-5 drops of blue food coloring.

3. For greater credibility, you can draw clouds and waves on the bag, and then fill in the tinted water.

4. After you need to tightly seal the bag and stick it to the window with adhesive tape. The result will have to wait a little, but it's worth it. Now you have your own weather in the house. And your children will be able to watch the rain pour right into the little sea.

Exposure of the focus

Since the Earth has a limited amount of water, there is such a phenomenon on it as the water cycle in nature. Under warm sunlight, the water in the bag evaporates, turning into steam. As it cools at the top, it reverts to liquid form and falls as precipitation. This phenomenon can be observed in the package for several days. In nature, this phenomenon is endless.

Ecological fairy tale about the water cycle in nature "Adventures of a droplet".

1. Explain to children by means of a fairy tale such natural phenomena as clouds, precipitation, the water cycle in nature.

2. Arouse interest in natural phenomena and their origin.
3. Cultivate kindness and responsiveness.

Fairy tale "Adventures of a drop".

There is a lake on our planet and a curious droplet lives in that lake. She was always interested in everything, she watched fish, snails and even birds.
Once, the droplets talked among themselves, one of them told how beautiful the lake looks from above, from the sky, how big it is, how many interesting things are around it.
And our droplet wanted to look at all this beauty. She rose from the depths to the surface of the water and tried to rise, but she did not succeed. She asked the wind for help, he blew on the water, but he didn’t succeed, he blew harder and harder, but the drop still remained in the lake.
The droplet was upset, and almost cried, but then the sun warmed up and our droplet turned into steam and rose high above the lake. She looked down and saw her lake, and the forest, and even a small stream. Then the wind blew, he wanted to ask how she managed to rise into the sky, but the droplet, turning into steam, was very light and he blew it away. She collided with other droplets and there were so many of them, a whole cloud.
She wanted to go back into the lake and tell her friends what she saw, but the wind drove the cloud so far away that the lake was no longer visible. The wind stopped, but it became so cold that the droplets began to cling to each other and turn into heavy drops and fall down, so it began to rain from the cloud.
Drops fell to the ground, they became so friendly in the cloud that they were afraid to get lost, they grabbed hands and turned into streams. Streams merged into rivers, rivers flowed into lakes and seas. And when the sun warmed up, curious droplets rose into the sky and everything repeated again, only they dripped in a new place.
This is a journey made by a droplet and this journey is called - the water cycle in nature.

As a reinforcement of the knowledge gained, you can conduct an experiment.

The water cycle in nature

Materials: large plastic jar, smaller jar and plastic wrap.
Progress: Pour some water into the vessel and place it in the sun, covering it with a film. The sun will heat the water, it will begin to evaporate and, rising, condense on a cool film, and then drip into a jar.

Analytical reference of the preschool educational institution on the organization of work. Section "Environmental education"