Abstract

China is a big consumer of toys. With the opening of the country’s two-child policy and parents pay more and more attention to children’s education, the toy market is becoming increasingly popular. Toys are important playmates in children’s growth and play an important role in children’s intellectual development and early education. However, at present, children’s toys are mostly educational toys, which only inspire children’s intelligence, stimulate children’s brain activity and develop children’s intelligence. However, systematic popular science toys for children are relatively lacking, and relevant research materials are also few, which do not play a good role in enlightening children’s popular science. According to the design principles and methods of children’s toys, aiming at the shortcomings of the existing popular science toys for children, through in-depth investigation and analysis of popular science toys for children, this paper organically combines children’s toys with popular science, and makes some design attempts. The aim is to change the current situation that many students have a certain fear of physics and chemistry in high school due to the lack of popular science knowledge in childhood.

Highlights

  • The healthy growth of children is related to the family, society, nation and even the future and destiny of a country.[1] childhood is a critical period of life

  • The measurement result shows that researchers have formulated the children’s children’s cognitive development is fast in this range of developmental characteristics that suit the Chinese ages (Table 1) [6]. It means this period accounts for a children, including 11 items from four aspects – language, critical period for children’s cognitive development and cognition, social cognition, and motion

  • Designers can sort the science knowledge that the science toys involve by mind maps, extend the game based on the phenomena, principles and nature of mechanics (Figure 3), and present the mechanical phenomena one by one, find the correlations between knowledge points, to find the direction for design of children’s science toys

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Summary

Introduction

The healthy growth of children is related to the family, society, nation and even the future and destiny of a country.[1] childhood is a critical period of life. It is a critical period to cultivate children's knowledge, thinking, behavior, cognition and other abilities, which will directly affect children's growth.Games are an important activity in childhood and play an important role in children's growth.As the carrier of games, toys can enable children to know unknown things in play, exercise children's hand and brain coordination ability, inspire wisdom and help children learn plasticity in the future.With the development of social economy and the two-child policy, the proportion of children's toys in China's consumer spending has been increasing year by year.In the whole school stage, especially in the schoolage stage, toys are the close playmates of children, playing the role of teachers and helpful friends who lead them to know the world in their growing process, which makes toys the indispensable necessities of children's growing stage

Overview of science toys for children
Market for children’s toys and research status quo
Principles for design of children’s science toys
Conclusions
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