How to teach your child something new in travel

Do I have to take the kids for a while overseas holiday or just a trip far? Of course yes! Let it cumbersome to some extent and may even be a real challenge for "survival". But it is enough to know the problems and their solutions traveling with children, and your vacation will be filled with inexpressible joy and gladness young. Although family trips away from home by themselves are fine, they can saturate the added benefit - kids learning something new.

Reading maps and geography

It would be nice if you went to "dead" zone without access to the network and ask their children for help in finding the right direction on the original paper chart. Even in an era of dominance of handheld gadgets and navigation software is not necessary to entirely rely on electronics for vehicles. It has a limited lifespan and stable functions not on the whole territory of our planet.

A child can learn basic geographic concepts such as latitude and longitude. Along the way, tell him about how to determine the cardinal points of the secondary characteristics. Try it with him to calculate the distance between two points on the scale of the map with a ruler. Estimate fuel consumption and cost per kilometer obtained. Figure out whether you will have time to get to the right place before sunset. In general, turn the lesson of geography and mathematics in an exciting game.

But the lesson from Google Maps will be useful. Tell your child about the basic features of the most popular map service. How to search by geographical coordinates, how quickly know the distance between the points, how to develop the best route from start to finish for their independent travel.

Everything else, the Internet can find a number of interesting resources that provide knowledge in a playful manner. For example, Google has developed the same great fun under the name Smartypins. On this website, the player is given a question to which the answer is one or another city in the world. You need to drag the red marker at the point on the map, which you think is the correct answer.

In the web you can find many pages devoted to the study of geopolicheskoy map. For example, Worldmap offers the player to correctly specify the location of the country on the name of its capital city for some time.

planning skills

Play with your child in detectives. their task — find as much information related to the trip. It can be custom destination countries, especially cultural, historical information, and any other encyclopedic information. Cooperative play is not only helps to strengthen family ties, but also banal teaches children to properly make searches on the web. Sure, on the basis of the information the child will make their proposals to the travel plan and increase their self-esteem due to the involvement of the common cause.

Geocaching

Geocaching — This travel game based on the search of treasure, especially hidden by other people all over the earth. Some players make caches, with help of GPS-equipment determine their position and transmit the coordinates to other players via special Internet services. The undoubted advantage of geocaching is an active way of life and the great pleasure of the search process and its result. Basically caches hidden or disguised in the vicinity of cultural and historical attractions, although it is not a prerequisite.

Not all GPS-enabled receivers have a high degree of accuracy. Therefore, the geography of search may be several tens of meters. Because of what the players get special puzzles and clues that will help your child develop attentiveness to detail, sharpness and the ability to navigate in unfamiliar terrain.

Geocaching— The largest community of treasure seekers. The site has a Russian interface, an impressive number of participants, and can be accessed through a special mobile application.

The photo

Children's fascination with seeing the world through the camera lens can turn into a fascinating profession, full of creativity, dating and travel.

First we have a child with basic training. Tell him or jointly get information exposure, aperture, shutter speed. It would be nice and popraktivatsya on a virtual machine. For example, a well-known manufacturer of digital cameras, Canon company, has developed an emulator DSLROn which you can try out the knowledge gained in practice.

Entrust your child to trip the camera, and then make a photo album, in which under each card you must write all this knowledge about the removal of monuments, attractions, events, or man.

Foreign language

Parents do not always manage to be interested in their child having to learn new languages. Foreign trips — this is the best incentive and practice. Ask the child that he tried to talk with the seller of ice cream, read the name of the street or repeated word for loud speaker uncle. Needless surroundings entice children with the knowledge of an unfamiliar voice.