Doll's Journey of Exploring Chinese Herbal Medicine (1)

Since ancient times, "Chinese herbal medicine" has a history and culture of more than two thousand years. Chinese herbal medicine, as an important part of China traditional culture, is the precious wealth accumulated by the Chinese nation in the process of fighting diseases for thousands of years, and it is also the accumulation and sublimation of medical practice for thousands of years. At present, Chinese herbal medicine still plays a very important role in medicine and people's lives.

In life, "Chinese herbal medicine" is also everywhere. The tremella and Sydney soup that children drink, the wormwood pulled from the balcony on the second floor of the kindergarten during the Dragon Boat Festival, the chrysanthemum tea soaked in autumn, the mint leaves picked by children in the kindergarten, and the small sachets of Chinese herbal medicine made by parents for their children ... all come from the children's lives. In this process, children will also communicate and discuss:

"I also drink this Sydney soup at home because my mother says it can cure cough!"

"I smell this sweet bursa and I will faint! It stinks! What's in it! "

"I know wormwood! It smells good! My grandmother used it to soak her feet! "

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It can be seen that "Chinese herbal medicine" is around children and plays an important role. However, children don't have a systematic, concrete and in-depth exploration and understanding of "the types of Chinese herbal medicines, the functions of different Chinese herbal medicines, and how to make better use of the value of Chinese herbal medicines".

So, based on the children's interests and their existing experience, the children began a journey of exploring Chinese herbal medicine to see what kind of sparks will be struck between these dolls and Chinese herbal medicine?

I have a lot of little question marks.

"Are Chinese herbal medicines made of grass?"

"Why is the Chinese medicine I have drunk bitter?"

"Chinese herbal medicine is also a medicine? Why is the tremella Sydney soup we drink also a Chinese herbal medicine? "

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At first, children will produce many small question marks about Chinese herbal medicines and record them in the form of symbolic representation.

Teacher thinking:

The Guide to Learning and Development for Children Aged 3-6 points out: "We should discover new and interesting things or phenomena around us, share them with children, and work together to find the answers to the questions".

So, in order to solve these little question marks, how do children learn in various ways? For example, first collect all kinds of Chinese herbal medicines in kind, or read picture books about Chinese herbal medicines, watch video pictures, find answers online, invite Chinese herbal medicine masters to class, and find them through questionnaires.

Second, observe Chinese herbal medicine and try to soak Chinese herbal medicine independently.

(1) Collection, observation, comparison and classification

Many hands make light work! With the efforts of the children, the children collected various Chinese herbal medicines from home, including scented tea, jujube, medlar, dandelion root and kudzu root. ...

"wow! A lot of Chinese herbal medicines! "

"Smell it, what is this smell?"

"It stinks!"

"This is ginkgo fruit, picked from the ginkgo tree!"

"I brought dandelion root, which has the function of clearing away heat and detoxifying."

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Children enthusiastically share their Chinese herbal medicines with their peers, such as smell, shape, function …

However, in the face of so many Chinese herbal medicines, how should we put them?

"We can classify! The bottles we collected before are also classified! " The children moved the experience of "sorting things" here.

"How to classify?"

"You can put the essential oils together! Put this Chinese patent medicine together! "

"You can put those who can make tea and drink directly and those who can cook porridge in the same category!"

"Chinese medicines made by animals can be put together!"

According to the children's suggestions, we will do it! The children began to classify ~ with the efforts of the children, the Chinese herbal medicines that were originally piled up in disorder are now placed in an orderly and neat way!

(2) Soak, boil, taste, see and smell

After collecting so many Chinese herbal medicines, the children can't help cooking and soaking themselves!

"Just made chrysanthemum tea! It is autumn now, and drinking chrysanthemum tea can reduce the fire. "

"I also want to make lily tea. My mother makes lily tea at home, which can cure the lungs and relieve cough. "

According to their own interests, the children took hot water with the help of the teacher and began to brew scented tea.

"I smell chrysanthemums!" Ran Ran said.

"Chrysanthemum opened in the water! It's so beautiful ~ "Xiaoxi observed the changes of dried chrysanthemum after soaking in water.

"What would it taste like if it tasted?" I said.

"Let me have a try." The more drink a mouthful, "bitter! You try. " Several other children also began to taste.

Although the chrysanthemum tea is bitter, the children enjoy it, and they also talk about their observations recorded on the "Observation Record Sheet".

"Korean teacher, all Chinese herbal medicines can be directly soaked in water? Can the seeds of this ginkgo fruit be directly soaked in water? " Zi Han asked.

"Should not? This kind needs cooking. Do you want to eat when it is cooked? I have seen my mother cook it in porridge. " Mango said.

"yes! This black bean should also be cooked! "

The children found that there are many ways to eat Chinese herbal medicines, such as "soaking", "boiling" and "frying".

Third, invite TCM masters into the classroom.

(1) I have gained a lot.

When sorting out Chinese herbal medicines, we found that we didn't know the name and efficacy of each Chinese herbal medicine. How can we fully understand their names and functions? How can we make better use of these Chinese herbal medicines and give full play to their functions?

"We can check the names of these Chinese herbal medicines online!"

"I can let my mother come! My mother is a doctor, and I often drink health tea at home! My mother made it for me. " Jiahe said excitedly.

At Jiahe's suggestion, we invited Jiahe's mother to the class.

Put on a white coat and show all kinds of Chinese herbal medicines. In the sharing of Jia and his mother, the children know that Chinese herbal medicine is just a general term, and both plants and animals can be used as Chinese herbal medicine; It turns out that animal manure can be used as Chinese herbal medicine! Children know that the oyster skin we eat in our life can be used as Chinese herbal medicine, which helps to enhance immunity; It turns out that our hair can also be used as Chinese herbal medicine; It turns out that the cock's saliva can detoxify the centipede ... the children listened carefully. It turns out that Chinese herbal medicine is so magical! Children also use symbolic expressions to record their gains.

(2) I will match health tea.

In sharing, children also know that in fact, we can cook a variety of Chinese herbal medicines together, which can increase its efficacy. For example, the health tea we usually drink, "honeysuckle chrysanthemum tea" and "dandelion osmanthus tea"-clearing away heat and toxic materials, benefiting the liver and improving eyesight; "Hawthorn osmanthus tea"-promoting fluid production to quench thirst, resolving food stagnation and resolving phlegm; Wu Mei decoction-nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, astringing lung and relieving cough ...

Children themselves began to try to mix and cook health tea according to different needs. Today, children are cooking honeysuckle, chrysanthemum tea and ebony soup. Let's have a taste!

Not only do you have to drink it yourself, but you also have to drink it with more children in the kindergarten, as well as the principal's mother, the doorman's grandfather, and the cleaning aunt ... They silently pay for our kindergarten, hoping to get better and better after drinking the health tea we cooked!

However, in the process of preparing health tea, Jing Yan put forward: "Teacher, how do we know how many chrysanthemums and honeysuckle to put into the health pot at a time?"

I have seen my mother buy Chinese herbal medicine to make sachets for her children, and all the uncles there weigh them with scales! "Art calendar said.

"Teacher, let's buy a scale, too."

"Teacher, I have it at home."

Children began to collect all kinds of scales, including electronic scales and barnacles for Chinese herbal medicine pharmacies. How to use these tools? I look forward to the children's next exploration!

(See you next time ~)

Teacher thinking:

Children's exploration of Chinese herbal medicine originates from children's life. With the deepening of exploration, children began to produce all kinds of small question marks. The Guide to Learning and Development for Children Aged 3-6 points out: "Adults should be good at discovering and protecting children's curiosity, make full use of opportunities in nature and real life, and guide children to learn to discover, analyze and solve problems through observation, comparison, operation and experiment."

Therefore, in the exploration stage, children start with all kinds of small question marks about Chinese herbal medicines. Teachers encourage children to learn to find and solve problems independently in various learning methods through picture books, questionnaires, inviting parents into the classroom, collecting Chinese herbal medicines, observing cooking and tasting.