“Mom, why is the sky blue, not red or yellow?” This phrase baffles many parents. It turns out that we, adults, introducing our baby to the world around us, ourselves do not know the answer to such a “difficult question” просто and simply, not knowing what to answer to our baby, we translate the topic, or, in order to compose an explanation accessible to the child, we have to break the head. So let's figure it out for ourselves why the sky is blue and how to explain it to a small child in a simple way.
Light, consisting of seven spectral colors, passes through the atmosphere. Solar photons collide with gas molecules contained in air, which leads to their scattering. And the most interesting thing is that after this the number of particles emitting a short blue wave becomes eight times larger than the others. It turns out that before our eyes the sunlight on the way to the Earth turns from white to blue.
How to explain all this to the child? It’s too early to talk about the photons of sunlight that collide with gas molecules. We offer several versions of the answer to this difficult question.
Why is the sky blue?
- Sunlight consists of 7 colors connected together: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue and violet. (Look at the pictures with the spectrum, remember the rainbow.) Each ray passes through a thick layer of air high above us, as if through a sieve. All colors are sprayed at this moment and it is blue that becomes visible most of all, because it is the most persistent.
- The air looks transparent, but actually has a bluish tint. The sun is very far away. When we look at the sky upwards, we see a very thick layer of air, so thick that we see that it is blue. You can take a transparent cellophane, fold it many times and see how it changed color and transparency. And then draw an analogy.
- The air surrounding us consists of tiny and constantly moving particles (gases, dust particles and specks, water vapor). So small that they can only be seen with the help of special devices - microscopes. And sunlight combines 7 colors. A ray passing through the air collides with tiny particles and its shades are disconnected. And since the blue-blue prevails in the color scheme, we see it. Here it is necessary to show the child a spectrum.
- Or you can do it quite simply - the sun paints the air blue.
If the child is very small and it's too early to talk about spectra ры, then you can just come up with something 🙂 (options from the forums)
kitty Well, for example, like this: there lives such a wizard who has a brush with beautiful blue colors, he wakes up, and so that the children can be light and joyful, he takes out blue paint and paints the sky with it, the paint is also magic, it does not spill and dries up immediately 🙂, but when he is upset, the sky is not blue, but dark blue and the paint does not dry, but it rains, and the wizard has a fairy sister, and when she sees that the children are tired, she paints the sky in dark color and throws starsso that it’s not very dark, and then the children have colorful dreams 🙂
Vladimir Gor There are many seas and oceans on the earth (show on the map) and in sunny weather the water is reflected in the sky and the sky turns as blue as the water in the oceans and seas, just like in a mirror (show in a mirror that it is blue) . This will be enough for the child to satisfy his curiosity.
Chena A fairy flew, she had paints in a basket, a bubble with blue paint fell and the paint spilled, so the sky is blue. In general, it all depends on the age of the baby ...
It is very important to engage your baby in the discussion. Sometimes offer your little thing to think first about the answer to the question. Try to hint, push him to conclusions. And then discuss and summarize the information. Kroha needs your attention, recognition of his interests and respect for the first attempts to know the world. In this way, you will help shape your child’s open and inquisitive personality.
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So far, my daughter is too small to ask such questions, I remembered the answers anyway, because there will be questions anyway and I need to know what to answer to the child.
I regret that I did not meet your article earlier, because about a month ago such a question was raised from my son and I fell into a stupor. I did not know what to answer ..
It is actually quite difficult to answer such questions, especially if the child is small and does not understand anything from a scientific point of view. We have to come up with fairy tales.
We constantly have conversations with children, why this is so, why it is .. At first it scared me a lot, but then I got used to it. I just come up with some kind of fairy tales, but the basis of scientific facts.
For parents it is important to be able to do unique and amazing things out of the most ordinary things. You can’t just say everything directly to a child. so the child will not understand anything.