Chao News client reporter Li Wenyao.
On the occasion of the Spring Festival, in order to enrich the children's holiday life and open the door to the world of science, the Zhejiang Association for Science and Technology recommended 11 popular science books, which are close to life, covering astronomy, geography, historical figures and other fields.
Why should I read popular science reading? And how to read it? Zheng Yongchun, a researcher at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a member of the Revision Group of Compulsory Education Science Curriculum Standards, and the "Science Reading Promotion Ambassador" of the China Science Writers Association, wrote a message for popular science reading, allowing you to enter popular science reading and understand popular science reading.
In today's fast-paced world, reading a book is obviously a luxury. When you are reading, you sit at your desk, on the sofa, and your body is no longer in motion. At this time, is reading still an efficient way to learn? This is something that many people are very skeptical.
This is not the case. If you think about it, when you are reading, you seem to be relaxed, but you have no distractions and your concentration is very focused. When you are reading, although your body is not moving, your eyes are staring at the words and **, not looking elsewhere. The brain is running at a high speed, ingesting new knowledge, combining your existing knowledge and experience, and reorganizing it to form a systematic thinking.
In the process of reading, the mind is quiet, the brain is focused, and the work is efficient. That's why when you're done, you don't feel like you've wasted your time, but you feel very fulfilled.
In our national reading campaign, we have always emphasized the reading of social science books such as literature, history and philosophy, but we have neglected popular science reading, and its importance and value have been underestimated for a long time.
There are several benefits to popular science reading.
First of all, popular science reading can guide work, life and study. Today's society is a lifelong learning society, and the oppression of artificial intelligence is coming. Compared with artificial intelligence, the advantage of human beings lies in their ability to innovate and create, and in their ability to empathize with other people, satisfy each other's emotional values, and complete work that is difficult for individuals to complete independently through communication, exchange, and cooperation. Maintaining a healthy body, an optimistic mindset, a positive mood, and avoiding the effects of unhealthy lifestyles and negative emotions all require the guidance of the scientific method. Popular science reading helps us learn to communicate and cooperate with others, and improve the efficiency of work and study.
Secondly, popular science reading can help us re-understand nature and achieve harmony between man and nature. As a member of the natural world, only by understanding nature can human beings better adapt to nature, make use of nature, and achieve the sustainable development of human society. When you have enough knowledge accumulation and go deep into nature again, you will have a unique vision, and you will no longer see the mountains and the water no longer water, but a glimpse of the operating rules of nature. When you understand geography and astronomy, you will know that the Qianjiang tide is not only a beautiful scenery, but also the result of the moon's gravity pulling the sea water undulations. You will know that solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, meteor showers, weather, etc. are all laws of the movement of the heavens, the earth, the sun and the moon, and can be accurately predicted. When you see the towering Himalayas and the rushing Brahmaputra River, you should not only marvel at the wonders of nature, but also know that it is the result of the collision of the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate.
Finally, popular science reading can not only obtain scientific knowledge, but more importantly, learn scientific thinking, scientific methods, and scientific spirit, help us become a rational person, see through this complex world, and have the courage to face it and find a place to put our hearts.
Books are the most cost-effective commodity in this era. The most expensive decoration of a family is the study, and a person's temperament is reflected in the bookshelf. However, the society is short and rampant, the fast food culture is popular, and the rapid realization is realized, and each of us is inevitably swept into the torrent of the times. Compared with fragmentation, short stay, and instant gratification, a classic popular science book is the accumulation of decades of scientific research training by the author, and the result of long-term research, which can profoundly affect our way of thinking.
Methodological guidance for popular science reading is very important.
First, be clear about your motivation for reading. Interest is the premise of popular science reading, you should choose books that you are interested in or useful for actual work, study and life. Astronomy and geography, naturalism, physics and chemistry, engineering and technology, each field is different, and you have to find a book that interests you as a reading topic.
Secondly, it is necessary to adapt to the cognitive level. Students in the lower grades of primary school mainly read picture books, students in the middle grades mainly read ** books, and the upper grades mainly read text books. Progressively develop into abstract thinking. Primary school students mainly focus on visual thinking, and knowledge and story books are generally opened. In junior high school, it's five or five. In high school, it should be the other way around, and knowledge texts, which are what we call popular science reading, should account for more than seventy percent.
Finally, it is necessary to improve the reading effect through the output. Unlike literary books, most popular science books have no stories, no joys and sorrows of characters, and no ups and downs of the plot. When reading, read with questions, why should the author research the topic? How did he do his research? What are the new findings from the research? What do these new findings have to do with us?
The harvest of popular science reading is systematic knowledge and in-depth thinking. Let's move from intuitive sensibility to abstract rationality. When reading, you should draw multiple circles, circle the nouns and terms, and draw the words that have thoughts. It is necessary to classify different levels of knowledge and clarify ideas through mind maps. Furthermore, it is necessary to share the results of reading through Weibo, WeChat and other self-leading platforms, and promote their own thinking through readers' feedback.
It has been more than 100 years since Mr. May Fourth entered China, and there is still a lot of debate in society about what is science? Why study science. Science is still a foreign word in China, and it has not yet been integrated into our culture, which is related to our lack of popular science reading. At present, the state attaches great importance to science education, and popular science reading should receive more attention. (Zheng Yongchun).
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