The primary school "Nature" textbook in the 80s can be called a classic textbook of an era, these six textbooks cover everything, from meteorology to astronomy, from plants to animals, microcosm to the universe, rich in knowledge, but it is not too difficult to understandAnd it also takes into account the actual situation of primary school students at that time, and the effect is also very good in the actual use process, so that the current post-70s and post-80s are very fond of it and have always been very memorable. To sum up, the characteristics of this textbook are:
1. Tell natural knowledge in story-based language, which is easy for students to understand and accept.
Second, the curriculum is set up for students' cognition, and primary school students are very interested in learning.
3. The textbook itself is carefully written, involving various disciplines, and the content is very rich.
Fourth, the color pictures and content illustrations are of high quality, and most of them are in the natural environment.
5. Encourage students to go out into the field to recognize and understand the natural phenomena they see.
In particular, this one allows students to get close to nature, which is very impressive, because in the previous color page, there is such a picture:
Students come to the mountains, catch small fish by the stream, catch flying insects in the grass, make leaf specimens, etc., this kind of closeness to nature is exactly the requirement of the "Nature" class, only by getting close to nature, can we understand nature.
Illustration of the Nature textbook from the 80s.
The cover of the Nature textbook from the 80s.
Let's take a look at the 2023 version of the "Science" textbook that children in the first grade are using now, in fact, the content of this textbook is similar to the previous "Nature", but this "Science" textbook is learned from the first grade, and the "Nature" textbook is learned from the third grade at that time.
Spanning nearly 30 years, we compare these two similar science popularization textbooks with each other, and we will find that the new textbooks have changed too much, but the changes are changes, why is the pattern smaller?
The cover of the current primary school "Science" textbook.
The front page of the Science textbook for primary schools.
Whether it is "Nature" or "Science" textbooks, in fact, it is just a name change, and the content is actually the same, which is to let students understand and understand natural knowledge, natural phenomena and simply know the scientific principles behind nature. But judging from the old and new textbooks, the gap is reflected!
Illustration of the Nature textbook from the 80s.
Illustration of the Nature textbook from the 80s.
Illustration of the Nature textbook from the 80s.
Illustration of the Nature textbook from the 80s.
Just look at the ** used in the textbook, you can feel the difference, the four pictures above are from the new four-page color map of the previous "Nature" class, you will find that these ** have orchards, terraces, birds' homes, pandas in the zoo, ants in the home, from macro to micro, from the air to the underground, showing a vast natural home.
2023 edition of Science for Primary Schools**
2023 edition of Science for Primary Schools**
2023 edition of Science for Primary Schools**
Let's take a look at the first few pages of the 2023 edition of the primary school "Science" textbook about plants, and you will find that what are the scenes? The trees on campus, the plants in the park, the green plants raised at home, and more are the natural landscapes of some scenic spots, and the plants displayed in them are some parks or plants raised at home
1. "Science" is all about the natural environment around students, such as family, park and scenic spots; The natural environment of "Nature" is very diverse, from mountains to small rivers, from fields to forests;
Second, most of the plants in "Science" are grown in parks or raised at home, and it is rare to see plants in the wild natural environment, and there are few basic crops from farmland;
3. Science wants students to understand what they see in real life, while Nature advocates for students to go to a wider range of nature.
In this comparison, it is difficult to say which textbook is in the right direction, because the times are differentThe reason why children in the past let them get close to nature is because they can only experience the joy of nature when they get out of the noisy city and come to the natural world under the natural conditions of the wild. The new textbook "Science" pays more attention to the observation within the scope of ensuring the safety of children, away from the dangers in the depths of nature, away from rivers and mountains, and only in small areas such as parks that I have been to in normal times, but it is difficult to understand the survival state of plants in the wild.
Comparing the content of the two old and new nature lessons, you will also find a very worrying problem:
Most of the old nature's observations of plants were produced in the fields of the countryside, and some were from the natural environmentFor example, lotus, daffodil, thistle (spiny cabbage) and other wild flowers and weeds; However, the new "Science" textbook only understands the green trees and flowers planted in the park, which is difficult for today's children to understand the real nature and real agricultural productionIn the long run, in addition to rural children, will urban children know what wheat seedlings, soybeans, and corn look like in the future?
Let's compare the two figures, that is, there is also a ** that collects leaves to observe:
Eighties primary school "Nature" ** picture.
2023 Primary School Science Textbook Leaf Collection Map.
In the eighties, there are generally poplars, willows, peach trees and other wild tree species, which are very common species in urban and rural areas, but in the current "Science" textbooks, at a glance, you can know that some ornamental plants are randomly picked from the city parks, so the question is, these plants may be recognized by urban children, and rural children, such plants are generally rare, how to recognize
Yes, you read that right, this may be the characteristics of the times embodied in the textbooks, most of the rural population has gone to the city, and the children in the rural areas have gone to school in the city, and their horizons have been broadened, but this is a first-grade textbook, which is used to popularize scientific knowledge, is the popularization of natural science knowledge limited to the place where the children live and play, the city park, these small places
Some people will say, editor, are you nitpicking, this should be a trivial thing that is not worth mentioning, maybe! If the plants that our children know today are only some green plants, and they don't know the grains and the fields, then what is the point of education? What do you say!