Design and research work "Collection and systematization of material for the essay-description "Rain"". Project in the preparatory group “Why it rains” Research work of a physicist on the topic of rain

Pedagogical project in middle group"Why is it raining"

Position: educator

Place of work: MOU for children garden number 199

PROJECT MATRIX "Why it rains"

About the project:

Type
: research, subgroup (5 people) short-term: 2 weeks
Objective of the project:
expand children's understanding of the causes of rain
Project objectives:
- to teach a child to understand the relationship of phenomena in nature (sun-part-cloud-rain) - to expand knowledge about the properties of water, its various states (liquid, gaseous, solid) - the formation of the prerequisites for search activity, the creation of the necessary conditions for this with the help of an adult, and then independently - involving parents in participating in joint activities.
Project relevance
The propensity for research is characteristic of all children without exception. The child strives for knowledge, and the assimilation itself occurs through numerous “why”, “how”, “why”. For the guys in preschool age learnability, strength and depth of emotions and impressions are characteristic, therefore everything that is learned during this period turns out to be especially strong and serves as the basis for further learning and personal development. Subject-research activity develops and consolidates the cognitive attitude of the child to the world around him. One of the objects of attention of children in the group was such a natural phenomenon as rain. This was the reason for creating this project.

Expected Result:
- children will acquire knowledge and ideas about a natural phenomenon - rain - they will learn the concept of "water cycle in nature" - interest in research activities- knowledge about the various states of water will expand - learn how to conduct simple experiments with parents, and then independently - they will learn to plan the stages of their actions, analyze and draw conclusions
Equipment:
for experimentation: a kettle with boiling water, glass, cotton pads, a saucer. for practical activities: a fairy tale about the “Droplet” by Maria Shkurina, a poem for a physical education minute “Rain”, a fairy tale by Gianni Rodari “The Sun and a Cloud”. for artistic creativity: Gouache, pencil, A4 sheet, brushes, napkins.

Stages:
The project implementation is designed for 2 weeks № Stages Goal Timeframe 1. Preparatory and design identification of the problem - why is it raining? - develop a project plan, involve parents in joint activities - determine the goals and objectives of the project - collect material on this topic (use of a dictionary, specialized literature, the Internet) - prepare equipment and create conditions for conducting experiments at home 08.10.14-13.10. 14 2. Practical - observing the rain - looking at pictures and illustrations about natural phenomena- Conducting a physical education minute "Rain" and learning the poem of the same name. - reading the fairy tale "The Sun and the Cloud" by Gianni Rodari - Reading the fairy tale "The Journey of a Droplet" by Maria Shkurina. - Drawing “It will rain soon” - Conducting an experiment in a group (cotton wool, water) - Conducting an experiment with parents (teapot, glass) - Creating a poster "The water cycle in nature" 13.10.14-20.10.14 results and evaluate them; View videos with experiments recorded in the group and at home. 20.10.14.- 22.10.14.

Analysis of the emotional state of the children participating in the project.
Children's interest in research activities increased, they were very surprised by the result of experimentation. Throughout the implementation of the project, all participants had a positive emotional mood; Children were happy to participate in various types of joint activities. The most joyful and long-awaited stage for children was watching videos with experiments made in the group, as well as at home.

Conclusions:
As a result of the work carried out with children, the goal set earlier was achieved. Children acquired knowledge and ideas about rain, learned the concept of “water cycle in nature”, expanded knowledge about the various states of water (learned that steam, ice, snow are also water), learned to conduct simple experiments, enriched the subject-developing environment of the group (in "center of knowledge" appeared a poster "the water cycle in nature").

Bibliography:
1. Journal "Educator of the preschool educational institution" No. 6, 2013 2. I. E, Kulikovskaya, N. N. Sovgir, Children's experimentation, 2003 3. G. P. Tugusheva, A. E. Chistyakova Experimental activity of middle and preschool age, 2007 4. Gianni Rodari. Tales 5. The Tale of a Little Droplet 6. Bondarenko T.M. “ Ecological activities with children 6-7 years old. 7. Gorkova L.G., Kochergina A.V., Obukhova L.A. "Scenarios for classes on environmental education of preschoolers." M.; WAKO, 2005

Place of work, position: -

MBOU "Secondary School No. 4, Krasnoarmeysk, Saratov Region"

Region: — Saratov region

Abstract characteristics:
Levels of education: – primary general education

Class(es): — 1st class

Subject(s): - World around

Target audience: – Teacher (teacher)

Resource type: - other type

Brief description of the resource:-

Research work of 1st grade students

Educational institution "Secondary school No. 4 of the city of Krasnoarmeysk, Saratov region"

educational and research conference of students

"START TO SCIENCE"

"IS RAIN ALWAYS A GOOD ONE?"

The work was done by students of the 1st grade

MBOU "Secondary School No. 4 of Krasnoarmeysk

Saratov region"

Ovsyannikova Olesya

Terentiev Danila

Scientific director

Sedova Oksana Yurievna

primary school teacher

MBOU "Secondary School No. 4 of Krasnoarmeysk

Saratov region"

Krasnoarmeysk

Introduction

The music of the rain is gentle, melodic,

Rustles sliding, sometimes rhythmic,

Drum beats zealously,

That kisses us, drizzling foggy.

The music of the rain gently caresses the ear.

Thoughts, like birds, collects in flocks.

Beckons us to sleep, gives us dreams,

So that we do not have confusion in our souls ...

(I. Lysikova)

The object of attention of our study was one of the natural phenomena - rain.

In autumn, spring and summer, we listen to the weather forecast every day to find out if it will rain today and whether it is worth taking an umbrella with us to hide from the rain and not get wet. Many of us like to walk in the rain, fall asleep to the sound of rain, while others, on the contrary, try to hide at home at the first drops of rain, they cannot stand the slush and dampness that rains bring.

We have watched rain a lot before and we have questions that we will try to answer in our research work. What is rain? How is it formed? What happens? And is rain always good?

The theme of our work: "Is rain always good?"

Relevance: we believe that rain can bring not only benefits, but also harm to the environment.

The purpose of our study: learn as much as possible about this natural phenomenon.

To achieve this goal, we set ourselves tasks:

• Learn how rain is formed.
• Find out what rains are?
• Find out how people feel about rain?
• What kind of rain should not be on Earth?

In our work, we used the following methods:

• Reading special literature (reference books, encyclopedias, fiction books).
• Use of Internet resources with the help of adults.
• Conducting surveys.
• Conducting experiments.
• Preparation of memos, rules, booklets.

To accomplish these tasks, we did the following work:

• collected material about what rain is and how it is formed;
• collected information about the types of rain;
• conducted a survey among relatives, students and teachers of the school;
• conducted experiments to: find out how rain is formed and how rain can harm nature;
• collected poems, riddles, sayings, drawings about rain;
• made a memo of rules of conduct during the rain.

What is rain and how does it form?

In the dictionary of Ozhegov S.I.:

Rain - 1. Precipitation in the form of water drops, jets.

In the dictionary of Dahl V.I .:

Rain - water in drops or jets from the clouds.

In a word, rain is, first of all, water.

There are many oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, ponds and just puddles on Earth. The sun heats the water in them. Water evaporates, turning into invisible steam. This steam, along with warm air, rises higher and higher, to where it is always cold. There, at a height, the steam turns into tiny droplets of water. When there are too many droplets, they become a cloud. And now the clouds are floating above the earth, unable to retain moisture in themselves. Then it rains.

In class, we conducted experiments "Turning water into steam" and "Formation of rain." (Appendix No. 1) First, we poured water into a saucer and left it for several days. After two days, we noticed that the saucer was dry. Where is the water? Evaporated!

Then, during the lesson, we “created” rain on our own, watching how water collects in a cloud (ordinary sponge) and rains back into a saucer. Now we can make it rain ourselves at home!

What kind of rains are there?

Rains are classified according to two main criteria:

• intensity;
• duration.

By intensity:

Few people know, but fog can also be conditionally attributed to rain. During fog, the smallest particles of water not only evaporate from the surface of the earth, but also settle down from the clouds. The droplet diameter is up to one tenth of a millimeter. Other types of rain can be distinguished as follows:

According to the duration, the following types of rain are distinguished:

In addition, the following types of rain are known to the people:

• "Blind" is the name given to summer rain without clouds. He walks in the sun: he is heard, but not seen. You can only guess from the footprints on the ground and water. Puddles and rivers respond to the blind rain with big bubbles. They are called "rain bubbles".
• "Mushroom" - fine warm summer rain. Hits straight to the ground! The mushroom picker is hovering. The air smells like smoke. The mushroom rain song is the shortest. Listen to mushrooms and grow. To the song!
• "Spore" - fast, fast rain. It always pours strongly, vertically, approaching with an oncoming noise. Particularly good is the spore rain on the river. As if a glass ringing is heard from the knock of drops. By the height of this ringing, you can guess whether the rain is gaining strength or subsiding.
• "Covered" - rain in the form of rather large drops. Do not wait it out - it can rain for hours, days, sometimes weeks. Such rain is the most unloved for many people - there is nowhere to hide from it: a gray veil of clouds captures vast spaces, sometimes thousands of kilometers.

Of no less interest unusual species rains:

• "Exotic" - wonderful, mysterious. Rains, which, together with water, bring various objects to the surface: coins, fruits, grain, and even fish, spiders, jellyfish, frogs.
• "Colored" - when the drops are painted in different colors: blue, red. How is this possible?
  The wind lifts the pollen high into the sky, and the pigment contained in the pollen paints the rain in different colors.
• "Zvezdny" is a meteor shower, or rather meteoric bodies that fly into the atmosphere of our Earth and develop speeds of up to tens of kilometers per second. When rubbing against the air, they warm up and begin to glow, and then collapse. This phenomenon can be observed at night, it seems that the stars are falling. People often make wishes when they see shooting stars.

  The impact of rain on man and nature

Rain is a beautiful and fascinating natural phenomenon that not only looks beautiful, but also has amazing energy, which helps to balance all systems of the human body. In addition, this element may have an influence on the formation of some character traits of people.

It is known that damp rainy weather has a negative effect on people with a weakened immune system: despondency appears, the body begins to mope a little, etc.

Drizzling weather usually causes drowsiness, depression and pessimism.

On the other hand, people with a romantic nature in the rain receive some spirituality, inspiration for creativity and a general mood for positive.

There is also the idea that spring rain is the most beneficial for humans. It is at this time of the year when it rains that most people's mood improves, many ideas and fantasies appear in creative life, general state becomes optimistic.

Having studied this information, we decided to conduct surveys (Appendix No. 2) among relatives, classmates, students and teachers of the school on the topic "My mood during the rain."

We found out that out of 48 people: in 24 - the mood worsens, in 17 - it improves, and in 7 - it becomes romantic.

To the question "Rain for nature is..." out of 48 people: 46 - answered "good" and 2 people believe that it is "harm".

In a word, the significance of rain for nature is great. Rain irrigates, moisturizes, nourishes, washes everything around.

The rainiest place on Earth is considered to be Mount Waialeale, which is located on the island of Kauai, which is part of the Hawaiian Islands. Here, rain is so commonplace that dry weather seems like a miracle. If Vaialeale were not a mountain, then in a year it would be covered with water, the layer of which would correspond to a four-story house. This area also holds the record for the longest rain - 350 days.

The Atacama Desert in Chile does not boast a lot of rainfall. According to weather forecasters, it doesn't rain here for years! With such a climate, some areas of this desert resemble the surface of Mars and are very, very dangerous for humans and in general for any living beings.

Imagine just for a moment what if it never rained? Rivers, lakes, seas would dry up. Plants would burn under the sun. There would be no insects, birds, animals, of course - fish, and in the end - and the man himself. So it’s not always worth it to frown and get angry if bad weather comes to replace the clear weather, and outside the window it pours like a bucket. After all, moisture is good!

When the rain is bad

Moisture for nature is a necessity. But not all rains are beneficial.

If the rain lasts longer than usual, the plants will not only be saturated with moisture, but even get fed up with it, they may rot. And too strong long rain can cause a flood, which will also bring only harm to the environment.

There are also rains that should not be on Earth! These are radioactive and acid rains. They appeared because economic activity human and environmental pollution.

Radioactive fallout is one of the most dangerous consequences of human pollution of the atmosphere. Occurs as a result of testing nuclear weapons, nuclear explosion or accidents on nuclear power plant. The consequences after them are irreversible - diseases internal organs, skin lesions, genetic mutations.

Acid rain.

In nature, acid rain does not exist. Regular rain becomes acidic. Why?

There are two reasons: natural and artificial.

Natural causes: volcanic eruptions, lightning, thunderstorms.

Artificial: industrial production, exhausts of cars, airplanes pollute the air with harmful gases, which, when combined with water droplets, form acid. And acid rain falls on the earth, bringing only harm to all life on Earth. Acid rain destroys plants, crops, kills fish in reservoirs.

Acid rain: how to deal with them

In the classroom, we conducted the experiment "The effect of acid rain on plants."

They took a leaf of a houseplant and dropped a few drops of sulfuric acid on it, which is part of acid rain. Five minutes later, brown dots appeared on the leaf. The plant got burned! (Appendix No. 3)

Acid rain is currently a problem in many parts of the world.

In Russia, the most high levels Acid rainfall is observed in the densely populated and industrial regions of the country - in the Central, Central Black Earth, North-West, Ural, as well as in big cities- Moscow, St. Petersburg, Omsk, Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk and others, saturated with power plants and vehicles.

Over the past five years, according to studies, there has been a steady increase in the acidity of rains.

Why is it dangerous?

Scientists point out that The consequences of acid rain are very multidimensional, and dangerous for both people and animals, as well as plants.. Among the main effects are the following:

How to deal with acid rain?

It is almost impossible to deal with the precipitation itself. H it is necessary to deal with the causes of this phenomenon. Knowledge of the problems will improve the environmental safety of the Earth's population.

Rain rules

• Try to stay at home or in shelter as much as possible.

• Use personal protective equipment: umbrella, raincoat, boots.

• If your clothes and shoes get wet, take them off immediately and warm yourself.

• Before going outdoors, check the weather forecast for the coming days.

• If you get caught in the rain in nature, try to quickly set up a camp in a safe place, securely anchor the tents, cover them with waterproof fabric, equip the gutters around the tents.

• In rainy weather, do not camp in the bed or on the banks of a mountain river.
• If you are exposed to acid rain, take a shower immediately to prevent the consequences.

Conclusion

Investigating this natural phenomenon, we made the following conclusions:

• Rain is one of the unique natural phenomena that exists in nature.
• We learned how rain is formed, and now we can independently “cause” rain at home.
• All rains differ in intensity and duration, and there are also "unusual" ones - exotic, colored and stellar.
• We learned where the rainiest place on the planet is located and where it doesn’t rain for years.
• Everyone should monitor the environment and then dangerous rains will not fall on Earth.
• People have different opinions about rain, but they agree that rain is also good weather!

List of resources

Internet resources

http://odogde.ru Rain and interesting things about rain

http://nplit.ru Entertaining climatology

Print Resources

Big book of questions and answers about the nature of things and phenomena, - M., 2004

My first scientific experiments, Content Publishing Group, 2003

Ozhegov S.I., Shvedova N.Yu. Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. Publishing house "Az", 1992.

Tanaseychuk V. Ecology in pictures. - M., "Children's literature", 1989

Wallard K. An entertaining book of questions and answers for smart people and smart girls. "Club family leisure", 2010.

What? For what? Why? Big book of questions and answers. EKSMO, 2004.

Other resources

Big electronic encyclopedia "Cyril and Methodius"

Children's electronic encyclopedia "Cyril and Methodius"

Files:
File size: 909824 bytes.

"Secondary school No. 6"

Regional Correspondence Competition of Research Works and Creative Projects of Junior School Students

"First Steps in Science"

CityKorsakov

School No.6

Class _2-b

Direction:natural science

RESEARCH

Subject: " Why is it raining? »

Content

Introduction.

The object of attention of my work was one of the natural phenomena - rain. Summer is coming, which means that most of the precipitation will fall in the form of rain. I watched the rain many times and I had questions that I tried to answer in my research work. I'm really wondering why it's raining? How does water rise to the sky to fall to earth as rain?

Purpose of the study:

Find out why it's raining

Research objectives:

1. Get acquainted with the primary sources about the rain (the bible).

2. Analyze scientific literature about rain as a natural phenomenon.

3. Get to know the types of rain and interesting facts about rain.

4. Verify the information obtained by conducting an experiment on the formation of rain.

5. Make a conclusion.

Object of study: rain.

Subject of study: water cycle in nature.

Research base: 2nd grade student Mikhail Davydov, his mother.

Research hypothesis.

Suppose it's raining because clouds are made of water.

Research methods.

2. Analyze the scientific literature.

3. Conduct experiments.

4.Compare the result.

1. Primary source about rain.

The Bible tells the story of a flood. God punished people for their sins by sending a flood to the earth. It rained continuously from the sky for forty days. Water flooded the earth and all living things died. Then the rain stopped, the water receded and life resumed.

2. Poll.

I asked the question: "Why is it raining?" different people and received the following responses:

Dad - rain comes from above, because water accumulates at the top;

Mother - the rain comes from the clouds; it can be different - mushroom, downpour, drizzle, ice;

Grandmother - rain is a type of precipitation; usually happens in the warm season; autumn is especially strong, torrential.

Not having received the necessary information, I turned to the scientific literature.

3. Study of scientific literature

A) Explanatory dictionaries give the following definitions of the word RAIN:

• 
  Atmospheric precipitation in the form of water drops, jets. (Ozhegov's dictionary);
• 
  Water in drops or streams from clouds. (Dal's dictionary);
• 
  One of the types of precipitation, formed as a result of condensation into drops of water vapor that saturates the air, falls from the so-called rain clouds or dark gray clouds without a definite outline (Brockhaus and Efron dictionary).

There are many oceans, seas, rivers, streams, lakes, ponds and puddles on earth. The sun heats up the water. It evaporates, that is, it becomes a transparent and invisible vapor. This light vapor, along with warm air, rises higher and higher from the earth. It's always cold up there. The warm vapor at the top touches the cold air and tiny droplets of water are formed from it, like dust. When there are a lot of drops, they turn into a large cloud. The wind picks up the clouds and blows them around the world. Clouds float above the earth until heavy drops rain down on the earth.

It's been raining. The sun came out and dried up the water. She again turned into steam to form a cloud high in the sky and rain down on the earth.

This natural phenomenon is called the water cycle.

If the water cycle ceased, there would be no precipitation, rivers and lakes would dry up, underground sources would dry up. In other words, on land would disappear fresh water and with it life.
Under the influence of solar energy, liquid water and ice evaporate, turning into water vapor. Clouds form from water vapor in the atmosphere. Winds carry clouds over the oceans and from the oceans to the land. Due to the action of gravity, precipitation falls from the clouds, which feed rivers, lakes, glaciers, and moisten the soil. Under its influence, water flows from higher places to lower places, returning in rivers and streams back to the ocean. Part of the moisture that has fallen on the surface seeps deep into the earth, replenishing groundwater.

This is how the eternal cycle of water in nature takes place. It connects all parts of the hydrosphere into a single whole. Thanks to him, the reserves of various types of natural waters are constantly updated. At the same time, a complete exchange of water in rivers occurs in just 19 days, in swamps - in 5 years, and in lakes - in 17 years. The longest - for 10,000 years - water lingers in glaciers.

Conclusion: The water cycle not only unites the hydrosphere, but also ensures its relationship with the lithosphere, atmosphere, flora and fauna.

4. It turns out that rains are different:

Pouring

Oblique (skew)

Sitnichek (light rain, like from a sieve)

5. Interesting facts about rain.

In Portugal, rain is a good excuse not to go to work.

In the city of Para, residents compare their watches by the rain, as It rains every day at the same time.

You can't scare the inhabitants of Uganda with thunder, because in the country it rains with a thunderstorm 250 times a year.

A person can remain completely dry in the rain if he is in the desert. In fact, there are rains in the desert, but it is impossible to know about the rain, because. droplets simply do not reach the ground, evaporating under the influence of hot air.

In 1940, in the city of Meshchery (Russia), with the first drops of rain, silver coins from the time of Ivan the Terrible fell down.

In 1954 over English city Birmingham has been raining frogs. In 1973, such rain fell in France, and in 1974 in Turkmenistan.

In August 1963, near the village of Deinau, it rained from small frogs, and after 2 years from small fish and frogs.

In 1818 and 1847 a rare rain of spiders fell at Cahors in the south of France.

In 1954, blue rain fell in the USA in the city of Davenport and painted the city blue.

6.Practical study

To observe the formation of rain, I conducted the following experiment at home:

for this I needed:

pot; glass cover; plate; water.

The course of experience No. 1:

I pour water into a pot, ask adults to put it on the stove and wait together for the water to boil.

First we observe - the water boils, and the resulting steam rises and dissipates.

Conclusion: When exposed to high temperatures, water turns into a gaseous state, this phenomenon is called evaporation.

The course of experience No. 2:

When the water boils, cover the pot with a lid.

When the pan was covered with a glass lid, water drops formed on the lid. As they accumulated, they increased and fell back into the water. Water vapor is released from boiling water. On cold lid it cools down and turns back into a liquid. This phenomenon is called condensation.

Conclusion: Water vapor, in contact with cold air, condenses and turns back into water.

Conclusion.

Based on the analysis of the studied literature and the experience, I saw that water goes through two states: liquid, water vapor, rising up, comes into contact with cold air, condenses into small and light droplets of moisture, from which a cloud is obtained. That is, the cloud is made of water. The number of droplets increases, they turn into large and heavy drops, which rain down. The hypothesis was confirmed.

Bibliography:

"The water cycle in nature"

http://scienceland.info/

Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary Friedrich-Arnold Brockhaus, Ilya Efron, OOO "Publishing House" Eksmo "2010 Moscow

Encyclopedia of junior schoolchildren 1 - 4 cells. Bezkorovainaya E.V. etc. LLC "Publishing House" Eksmo "2014 Moscow

My first sacred history in stories for children by P.N. Vozdvizhensky Publication of the M.O. Wolf St. Petersburg - Moscow 1899 (Region Tselishchev Gennady Dmitrievich, 1991)

Children's Bible. Bible Stories in PicturesB.Arapovich, V.Mattelmyaki Russian Bible Society, Moscow 1993

Application:

1. Video on electronic media.

2. Presentation of the project on electronic media.

I chose this topic because - page number 1/1

Introduction

I chose this topic because:

Firstly, I considered it very interesting and entertaining, not only for myself, but also for others.

Secondly, I would like to discover new facts from the lives of my favorite writers.

Thirdly, to get the opportunity to look at the images from different angles, to understand what the author was thinking about when creating this image.

Fourthly, my desire is to feel the enormous tension of creative searches, which was created by St. Petersburg itself, which confronted the consciousness of Russian writers with issues of world development, forcing Russian artistic thought to work with unprecedented sharpness and depth.

Fifthly, St. Petersburg in my eyes is a fairy tale that exists in real world. I have never been lucky enough to visit this beautiful city in my life - I have to visit the homeland of great poets, writers, critics, artists in the summer, which I look forward to.

I noticed the relevance of this topic in society. In our large current environment, there is a need for high feelings. The cultural capital of our country, as is known and generally recognized, is the city of St. Petersburg. But just a few years ago, I did not feel that this great city was so in demand among people, I did not see a response, a gleam in the eyes of my peers, discussing someone's next visit to this city. Over time, I realized that some people, traveling to the "City of Petrov" do not realize all the greatness and genius of the city, the monumentality of buildings and the restrained cry of history. Therefore, having studied the images of St. Petersburg through the prism of the works of great writers, people themselves will be able to feel the atmosphere of that time, and understand how important it is to know.

St. Petersburg has a huge cultural history, which explains why this city during its cultural dawn inspired a wide variety of writers, artists, poets, philosophers and many other creative figures. And even today this amazing city does not lose ground and still remains the epicenter of the sights of our country and inspires people to create works of art. For example: someone was inspired by the pristine and incredibly beautiful nature, someone was the beauties of the city, perhaps some were inspired by people and the environment, and someone visited the Muse from the impression of fun unbridled balls ... You can continue very for a long time. After all, inspiration was in everything, but for each it is different. But for one the greatest poet 18th century - Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin - Petersburg was the city of his friends and associates, a symbol of the greatness of Russia. It is these criteria of Pushkin's perception of Petersburg that explain such different images of the city in the writer's work. A writer no less brilliant than Pushkin - Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol - considered Petersburg to be the temple of the human soul. In this magnificent city, he wrote, as I see it, his best works. In St. Petersburg, he met Pushkin and became famous for his first masterpieces. In this city, the two greatest pinnacles of Russian literature flourished and amazed society, without which, to this day, humanity would not have been so developed in the field of feelings and perceptions of beauty.

In my work, I would like to consider a topic that is relevant in my opinion: Images of St. Petersburg in the work of A.S. Pushkin and N.V. Gogol. The purpose of my work: to consider in detail the images of St. Petersburg from the side of A.S. Pushkin and N.V. Gogol, based on some works and the personal attitude of the writers, and comparing them, note the similarities and differences. To analyze how the metamorphoses of St. Petersburg develop in the works of A.S. Pushkin and N.V. Gogol. See the relationship of the authors to the city and people. Try to discover new aspects of this topic, relying on rare facts. Completely immerse yourself in the meaning of this or that image and understand why the author presents the city in this light.

Pushkin's Metamorphoses of Petersburg.

A.S. Pushkin has a huge number of poems and works in the form of prose about St. Petersburg. But in my work, I would like to consider, in my opinion, impeccable works. These are the novel "Eugene Onegin", the story " Stationmaster"and" The Queen of Spades "and the poem" Bronze Horseman».

Petersburg in the novel "Eugene Onegin"

Consider the images of St. Petersburg in the novel "Eugene Onegin". Here we see how the rich Russian geography is depicted - from the faces of the provinces to the secular townspeople - vivid pictures drawn by Pushkin's precise and easy word. Here and St. Petersburg, and the village, and the noble estate. And above all the descriptions on the highest level stands the unforgettable image of St. Petersburg - sung by many poets and prose writers. In Pushkin's works, this is not just a city - "Peter's creation" - reproduced as the place where his characters live, but a separate hero endowed with character, face, habits, smells and sounds. It turns out that the city in the eyes of the author becomes the direct hero of the novel, which can influence the turn of events.

In the novel by A.S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin" different aspects of human culture, soul, character, lifestyle of that time are displayed. The time when lovers wrote letters to each other and were afraid to look into their eyes when a good education received only people of high ranks, when life was a holiday for the secular part of society.

And already at the end of the first chapter, the image of St. Petersburg appears before the reader in the pictures of everyday life: its restless Petersburg comes to life under the drumming of the military, pedlars rush, “chimney smoke rises like a pillar of blue ...”, the baker “neat German” opens his shop. Pushkin involuntarily admires St. Petersburg, for each phenomenon he finds beautiful words, like an artist - paints. For example: "... the night sky above the Neva is transparent and bright", "We silently reveled in the breath of the supportive night." The Neva, the restless St. Petersburg river, "chained in granite", and loving words have been found for it.

Places about which the poet found so much beautiful words are well known to him. Each of the favorite places is associated for the author with something pleasant. Undoubtedly, St. Petersburg evokes pleasant sensations and emotions in the author, which strongly prevail over sorrowful ones. And yet here, in cold Petersburg, the poet dreams of another sea - warm, free, "Where I suffered, where I loved, Where I buried my heart." “I am wandering over the sea, waiting for the weather, Manyu sails the ships ...” - the author writes about himself from the banks of the Neva. Singing the hymn to the bright, noisy, beautiful Petersburg, Pushkin recalls other places. The plot begins and ends in St. Petersburg, he is assigned a pivotal role in the composition. Saint Petersburg is a city predominantly associated with the protagonist of the novel, Onegin.

The first chapter recreates the life and customs of the St. Petersburg nobility. The prevailing motives are novelty, fashion, modernity: “Here is my Onegin at large, cut in the latest fashion.” In the hero’s office: “amber on the pipes of the Constantinople, porcelain and bronze on the table, perfume in faceted crystal.” The St. Petersburg nobility is characterized by vanity, tinsel: "it's no wonder to be in time everywhere." Every day of the protagonist: Eugene Onegin begins and ends the same way: “He used to be still in bed: They carry notes to him, What? Invitations? In fact, the Three Houses are calling for the evening ... ”In this society, honor and public opinion are above all, which creates a special type of behavior. "And so public opinion! Spring of honor, our idol! And this is what the world revolves on!

The second time we see Petersburg is in the eighth chapter of the novel. Here, satire and sarcasm in relation to secular society sound sharper, the psychological difference between Onegin and the “empty” world is more significant. Tatyana is now a prominent figure in aristocratic society. Everything worthy and beautiful that is in secular society is concentrated in Tatyana. Placing the heroes of his novel against the backdrop of St. Petersburg and the Russian countryside, Pushkin, creating a kind of encyclopedia of Russian life, could not help but bring his heroine to Moscow, and there is a pattern in this. Pushkin could not ignore such a precious significance for the whole of Russian life as Moscow.

In the novel, Alexander Sergeevich tells about his best feelings about St. Petersburg. "Eugene Onegin" was written by the author in the period from May 9, 1823 to October 5, 1831, which falls on the period of the highest flowering of Pushkin's work as a poet. I believe that the novel is the best embodiment of St. Petersburg at all times.

Petersburg in the story "The Stationmaster"

The Stationmaster is part of the Belkin Tales series. The events of the protagonist take place in St. Petersburg. Petersburg is presented in the story in social and moral contrast - on the outskirts, in the Izmailovsky regiment, the poor and offended Vyrin lived, in the center, in an expensive hotel, the rich officer Minsky lived.

When Vyrin opened the bundle and saw the money - payment for Dunya, Vyrin threw it to the ground in bitterness and anger and stamped it with his heel. After walking a few steps, he stopped and decided to return for the money, but they were gone. “A well-dressed young man, seeing him, ran to the cab, sat down hurriedly and shouted: “Let's go!”. It is no coincidence that the action was moved to the streets of the central part of St. Petersburg - now in it, the city, the forces emanating from the offenders living in the center of the capital and defining its face were focused. The reputation of Minsky, a respectable, rich, noble nobleman, turned out to be false.

In this story, Petersburg appears to the reader in the form of a kind of evil and cold city, where everyone thinks only about money, where everyone is a stranger to each other. Cruel city. He is cruel to the main character. Lonely people live there, who have forgotten what warmth and love are. The social life and customs of Pushkin's Petersburg can be regarded as historical evidence of that era.

The image of St. Petersburg in the poem "The Bronze Horseman"

The poem "The Bronze Horseman" is a living figurative organism that does not tolerate unambiguous interpretations. The poem opens with an "Introduction", in which the image of the city occupies a dominant place, it is written in an official style. In its style, it differs sharply from the style of all other parts of the poem. Therefore, it is often perceived as an independent work. It differs from the narrative parts of the poem, first of all, by its solemnly jubilant tone. "Introduction" is often called a hymn to the great city. All other depictions of Petersburg - be it the Petersburg of Gogol, Nekrasov or Dostoevsky - are often compared with the Petersburg of the "Introduction" to Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman".

The whole interest lies in the fact that a city was created that is necessary for Russia, a city for people, a city that gives back the good laid in it by its builders. The poet in the work with unprecedented strength and courage shows the historically natural contradictions of life in all their nakedness. In the poem, in a generalized figurative form, two forces are opposed - the state, personified in Peter I (and then in the symbolic image of a revived monument, the Bronze Horseman), and a person in his personal, private interests and experiences. Therefore, the author often intrudes into the description of St. Petersburg with an expression of his love for him:

“I love you, Petra creation.

I love your strict slender look,

Neva, sovereign current,

Its coastal granite ... "

In the future, the description opens up more and more new sides of the city to the reader. Before us appears a glorious city: new capital mighty Russia, which the poet loves. And he captivates the reader with his commitment to the places of St. Petersburg dear to him. The poet sees "the sleeping masses of deserted streets", hears "the hiss of foamy glasses", but there are no people on the streets, just as there are no their faces against the background of glasses. In the first part, the appearance of St. Petersburg changes, it is no longer a magnificent "young city", but a "gloomy St. Petersburg". The city turns into a fortress besieged by the Neva. The trouble comes as if from within, the city itself takes itself by storm; everything that was unworthy of the image comes out, hidden behind the description of splendor:

"Trays under a wet veil,

Fragments of huts, logs, roofs,

thrifty commodity,

Relics of pale poverty,

Storm-blown bridges

Coffins from a blurry cemetery"

Speaking about the flood, Pushkin very vividly described the raging Neva:

"Siege! attack! evil waves,

Like thieves climbing through the windows. Cherny

With a running start, glass is smashed astern.

Trays under a wet veil,

Fragments of huts, logs, roofs,

thrifty commodity,

Relics of pale poverty,

Storm-blown bridges

A coffin from a blurry cemetery

Float through the streets!

Alas! everything perishes: shelter and food!”

And only after such a dead calm, the city comes to life: "is crowded in heaps" on the banks of the Neva, which is correlated with human fuss "like a sick person in his restless bed", then rushes "to the sea against the storm", "send ... like a petitioner at the door."

The entire first part is a picture of a national disaster, and it is at this moment that the figure of the “idol on a bronze horse” first appears, which is imperturbable, unlike the living king, powerless to resist the elements.

The poem glorifies: "great thoughts" of Peter, his creation - "the city of Petrov, "the midnight countries of beauty and wonder", the new capital of the Russian state, built at the mouth of the Neva, "under the sea", "on the mossy, marshy shores", the economy " here, on their new waves, all the flags will visit us" and to establish a cultural connection with Europe, "here we are destined to cut a window to Europe with nature."

Petersburg appears as a stronghold of Russian autocracy, as a center of autocracy. The capital of Russia, created by the people, has turned into a hostile force for itself and for the individual. Pushkin, as it were, emphasizes that a city that did not arise gradually, did not grow out of the countryside, like the vast majority of other cities, but was forcibly built on this site in spite of the smooth flow of history, if it stands, then its inhabitants will have to pay for the fact that the founder practically went against the laws of nature. In the center of the city there is a monument to its founder, and Petersburg itself is a huge monument to the personality of Peter; and the contradictions of the city reflect those of its founder. Pushkin vividly describes the daily concerns of citizens of different classes.

“... And St. Petersburg is restless

Already forced by the drum.

The merchant gets up, the peddler goes,

A cabman is pulling to the stock exchange,

Austinka is in a hurry with a jug,

Beneath it, the morning snow crunches.

I woke up in the morning with a pleasant noise.

The shutters are open; pipe smoke

A column rises blue,

And a baker, a neat German,

In a paper cap, more than once

I have already opened my vasisdas.”

Petersburg here is a deeply symbolic monument to the fruitfulness of the unity of millions of people. All the images here are multi-valued, symbolic. The poet explains history and modernity through a capacious and symbolic image of St. Petersburg.

I believe that The Bronze Horseman is the most mysterious work of A.S. Pushkin. The work has a historical foundation. And the images of St. Petersburg come precisely from history. The theme of the reign of Peter is touched upon in the Work. The author talks about the city, presenting it in images. There is also an incredibly beautiful symbolism here. The totality of all the qualities of the work gives the first impression of a fairy tale, but if you think about the meaning and know the history, then the work can be considered a historical poem.

Petersburg and The Queen of Spades

The Queen of Spades was written in the Boldin autumn of 1833. Based on a mystical story. Pushkin poeticizes and glorifies not only St. Petersburg - the city, but also life and class relations in the city itself. The descriptions of the streets and parts of the city are so accurate that following them, one can find those places or houses where, by the will of the author, his characters turn out to be. Squares, gardens, boulevards and streets were imprinted in the works of Pushkin. Under the layers of restructuring that befell the Golitsina mansion, one can guess the "house of the old architecture" in one of the main streets of St. Petersburg.

There are a lot of crazy people in the capital. It's hard to name normal life the old countess who has gone out of her mind and the pupil Lizaveta Ivanovna, who is tormented by her. Young nobles - officers also play cards all night long or dance until the morning ... The life of the capital's aristocracy is empty and meaningless. In The Queen of Spades, a new image of St. Petersburg was created for the first time in literature. The capital of the empire is a city of absurd life, a city of fantastic events, incidents, dehumanizing people, disfiguring their feelings, desires, thoughts, their lives. The blind and wild power of the city over man is explained by Pushkin.

The plot may seem exaggeratedly tragic, but in fact Pushkin did not exaggerate at all. There is a well-known example of a sensational story in St. Petersburg in 1802, when Prince A.N. Golitsin, the famous spendthrift and gambler, lost his wife, Princess Maria Grigorievna, to the Moscow gentleman L.K. Razumovsky. If the same plots appear in literature and in life, it means that some mechanism has been introduced that limits the variety of possible actions. Pushkin himself was a card player, so he saw from the inside the psychology of the game, its whirlpool, calculation, excitement. Petersburg gave Pushkin a lot of life stories about chance.

The idea of ​​the illusory existence of the city of madness, falsehood and violent hostility to man receives its final form in the last reflections of the hero: he is tormented by one completely meaningless question: “Here they all rush and rush about, but who knows, maybe all this is someone’s dream , and not a single person here is real, true, not a single deed is real? Someone will suddenly wake up, who is dreaming of all this, and everything will suddenly disappear.

The ambiguity of figurative symbols made it possible to understand special character fantasy of this city, the reasons for the hostility of the capital of the empire to man, the meaning of madness, absurdity, the illusory life of people in this offending city, city, falsehood and lies. But symbolic images are inherent not only in the sphere of life of the ancient nobility, the aristocracy is worth two, - Paris and St. Petersburg. The basis of the poetics of the story is precisely symbolic images.

In the story "Queen of Spades", in my opinion, fake Petersburg is described, the theme of human lies and excitement is touched upon. Pushkin tells about the spiritually low mentality of people of high ranks. Each hero has a symbol of one or another image of St. Petersburg. The writer is annoyed by such people, and in order to give his thoughts a “zest”, he uses various images of people and symbols. It takes a genius to veil everything in such a form.

Conclusion throughout the chapter: Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin raised Petersburg very highly. He considered this city his homeland, although he was born in Moscow. He loved his city with all his broad soul, which is confirmed by his poems. But at the same time, he quite realistically assesses the inhabitants, society, culture and knows history. He describes his reflections on the history of Petrograd in the poem "The Bronze Horseman". Absolutely all bright and warm feelings, the writer lays out in the novel "Eugene Onegin". The antithesis for the novel is the story "The Stationmaster". And of course anyone, even the most fabulous city not without sins, this is described in the story "Queen of Spades". At different times, Pushkin describes Petersburg in different ways, his thoughts change as his life in it changes.

Petersburg Gogol

Gogol spent a significant part of his life in St. Petersburg. This could not but be reflected in his works. In very many of them there is an image of St. Petersburg. Gogol even wrote a whole cycle of St. Petersburg stories. Actually, I want to start with him. I will add to the work: the stories "Nevsky Prospekt", "The Nose", "The Overcoat", "The Night Before Christmas" (from the cycle: "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka" and the play "The Government Inspector".

Images of Petersburg stories

Unlike Pushkin, who had known the new Russian capital since his teenage years, Gogol first saw Petersburg as an adult. The author shares with us his first impressions of the northern capital: “... Petersburg seemed to me not at all what I thought, I imagined it more beautiful, more magnificent ...” The writer describes the areas where he once happened to live.

"Nevsky Avenue"

The theme of Nevsky Prospekt opens the first of the "Petersburg Tales"; pages devoted to the main street of the city play the role of a prologue to the cycle as a whole. The author pronounces an ironic hymn to Nevsky Prospekt, where “it smells of one festivity”, where “greed, self-interest and need are expressed in walking and flying in karsts and on droshkys” and a quick “phantasmagoria takes place in just one day”. Nevsky Prospekt is just a beautiful reason for a strange, fantastic, half-mad city, the essence of which is revealed in the plots and characters of Petersburg Tales. In Everyday life Petersburg, Gogol notes fantastic, absurd and comical features, and in the souls of the townspeople - a combination of the ugly, touching and funny.

The appearance of the city is not only a background that sets off the events taking place in it, it is revealed in its social quality, shown in sharp and irreconcilable contrasts. Conveying these contrasts, Gogol paints Petersburg either in pathetic-romantic tones, or in its everyday "physiology", in its cruel everyday life, a humble and miserable life, which is the lot of the poor. Nevsky Prospekt is a mirror of the capital, reflecting its contrasts. Behind the brilliant splendor of Nevsky Prospekt, the other side of life, its ugly and painful sides, is even stronger and more tragic.

Nevsky Prospekt is an "exhibition", a place for showing all this arrogant, vulgar, hypocritical, which distinguishes the owners of rank and wealth. After twenty o'clock, those who are distinguished by the "nobility of their occupations and habits" appear on Nevsky Prospekt. For example: one shows a smart frock coat with the best beaver, the other shows a beautiful Greek nose, the third wears excellent sideburns, the fourth a pair of pretty eyes and an amazing hat, the fifth shows a ring with a talisman on a smart little finger, the sixth shows a leg in a charming shoe, the seventh tie, exciting surprise, the eighth - a mustache, plunging into amazement. “The best works of a man” are only his external signs - his clothes and features of his appearance: a dandy frock coat, a Greek nose, excellent sideburns, a mustache, a tie that plunges one into surprise. Behind all this there is no man, his inner content - or rather, the man here is exhausted by these external, ostentatious features. The brilliance and splendor of Nevsky Prospekt is only an appearance, only a lie and falsehood. Behind his ceremonial appearance lies the tragic fate of a modest worker. For Gogol, the "illusion" and falsity of Nevsky Prospekt express the very reality of social relations, the discrepancy between external splendor and internal emptiness and inhumanity. That is why images are so frequent in the story, emphasizing this illusiveness, the elusiveness of Nevsky Prospekt: ​​evening lighting, artificial light from lamps give everything "some kind of tempting, wonderful light."

"Nose"

"Overcoat"

Petersburg is depicted somewhat differently in the story "The Overcoat". This is a city where "little people" disappear without a trace. At the same time, there are streets in it, where it is bright at night, as during the day, with generals living on them, and streets where slops are poured directly from the windows, the shoes live here. Gogol depicted the transition from one street to another through their lighting and overcoats of officials: if on the poor streets the lighting is “skinny” and a collar on a marten overcoat is rare, then the closer to wealthy areas, the brighter the light of lanterns becomes and the more often beaver collars come across. The Overcoat describes the free time of petty officials and other poor people. So, some went to the theater or to the street, others to the evening, and still others to some other official to play cards and drink tea. Yards and "all kinds" of people sat in the evenings in small shops, spending time chatting and gossip. Gogol talks about all this in opposition to Akaky Akakievich, for whom all the entertainment consisted in copying papers. Rich people also go to the theater, walk the streets, play cards, only they buy tickets more expensive, dress better and, playing cards, drink not only tea, but also champagne.

In The Overcoat, the image of St. Petersburg is created by describing dirty streets, damp courtyards, shabby apartments, fetid staircases, “permeated through and through by that“ alcoholic smell that eats the eyes, ”gray nondescript houses, from the windows of which slops pour out.

Elements in Gogol also play important role in the disclosure of the image of St. Petersburg: winter lasts almost all year round, a constant wind blows, freezing, fantastic, incessant cold binds everything. In Gogol, the subjective sensation turns into an objective reality, time seems to stop, and the cold begins to be perceived as an enduring state of St. Petersburg. Something similar happens with the wind, which, "according to Petersburg custom", blows at once "from all directions." This philosophy of general indifference, indifference to a person, the power of money and ranks that reign in St. Petersburg, turn people into "small" and inconspicuous, doom them to gray life and death. Petersburg makes people morally crippled, and then kills them. For Gogol, Petersburg is a city of crimes, violence, darkness, a city of hell, where human life means nothing at all. This city is like a nightmare.

"The Night Before Christmas" (from the cycle: "Evenings on a farm near Dikanka")

One of the first works by Gogol, in which there is an image of St. Petersburg, is the story "The Night Before Christmas", included in the cycle "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka". Let's analyze the image: Petersburg is described in the spirit of folk tale. Petersburg appears before us as a beautiful, fabulous city, where the majestic and powerful Empress lives. It seems that the image of St. Petersburg is based on the faith of the people in a kind, just tsar. But still, in the image of St. Petersburg there are some signs of something unnatural. In "Night ..." Petersburg is not yet a city of hell, but a fantastic city alien to Vakula. Vakula, who flew in on the line, who saw both sorcerers and sorcerers along the way, and evil spirit, having got to Petersburg, he is very surprised. For him, St. Petersburg is a city where all wishes can come true. Everything is unusual and new for him: “... knock, thunder, shine; four-storied walls pile up on both sides, the sound of a horse's hooves, the sound of a wheel ... houses grew ... bridges trembled; carriages flew, cabbies shouted. There are motifs of disorderly movement, chaos. It is characteristic that the devil feels quite natural in Petersburg. Gogol shows the city through sounds and light. In that fairy world It seems to Vakula that even houses come to life and look at him from all sides. Perhaps Gogol himself experienced similar impressions when he first arrived in St. Petersburg. About the unusually bright light that came from the lanterns, Vakula says: “My God, what a light! We don't get that much light during the day." The palace here is simply fabulous. All the things in it are amazing: the staircase, the painting, and even the locks. The people in the palace are also fabulous: all in satin dresses or golden uniforms. Vakula sees one gleam and nothing else. In The Night Before Christmas, Petersburg is bright, dazzling, deafening and incredible in every way.

"Inspector"

Petersburg looks completely different in the comedy The Inspector General. Here it is much more real. It does not have that fabulousness that is present in The Night Before Christmas, it is almost a real city in which rank and money decide everything. In The Inspector General we meet two stories about Petersburg - Osip and Khlestakov. In the first case, this is a story about normal Petersburg, which is seen by a servant of a petty official. He does not describe any incredible luxury, but talks about the real entertainments available to him and his master: theaters, dancing dogs and cab rides. Well, what he likes most of all is that all people talk very politely: “Habbery, damn it, treatment!” Khlestakov draws a completely different Petersburg for us. This is no longer Petersburg with merchants and dancing dogs, but Petersburg with servility and unimaginable luxury. This is Petersburg of the dreams of a petty official who wants to become a general and live in grand style. If at first he simply assigns himself a higher rank, then at the end of his story he is already practically a field marshal, and his exaggerations reach truly incredible proportions: soup that arrived on a steamer from Paris, a seven-hundred-ruble watermelon. In general, Petersburg in Khlestakov's dreams is a city where he has a lot of money and a high rank, so he lives in luxury and everyone fears and reveres him. The hero is so lied that he himself no longer realizes where the truth is, and where his endless lie is. He is no longer in this world, but somewhere in the bowels of his dreams and lies. Trying to be like secular trendsetters in everything, provincials lose their true face, so their behavior looks unnatural and somewhat ridiculous. Gogol ridicules this vicious feature not only of the provinces, but also of both capitals, since both the image of St. Petersburg and Moscow were equal in everything to the standard of Western European life and, thereby, also lost their national roots.

The county town described in The Government Inspector is a collective image, it is the whole of Russia in miniature. In terms of the abundance of all sorts of abuses here, it cannot be called real, but at the same time it is typical. Gogol managed to display in a relatively small work all aspects of Russian life in the 30s of the 19th century, all its pressing problems. On the pages of comedy, the author brought all sections of the urban population. This is the bureaucracy, and the merchants, and the bourgeoisie, and urban landowners. The only thing missing here is the army and the clergy, who were not subordinate to the city authorities.

Ministry of Education of the Republic of Mordovia
Municipal educational institution

"Gymnasium No. 19" Saransk

Research

"What is rain?"

Performed:

Pronkina Anna

1B class student

Scientific adviser:

Ovchinnikova Ludmila Vasilievna

SARANSK 2015

Content

Introduction………………………………………………...2

Main part

1. What did our ancestors think about rain……………….....3

2. What is rain……………………………………..3

3. How rain is formed……………………………….3

4. Why is it raining………………………………….4

5. More about rain………………………………….5

6. What are the rains………………………………..6

7. Signs of rain……………………………………...7

8. Interesting facts about rain……………….…….….8

9. Riddles about the rain……………………………………..8

10. My experiences……………………………………..…..9

Conclusion ……………………………………..…….13

References……………………………………14

Introduction

I love summer very much, I like to play outside with my friends. But sometimes it rains outside and you have to stay at home. One day mit did not become interesting to find out in more detail - what is rain and where does it come from? And I decided to look for answers to these questions on my own.

Object of study: rain

Subject of study: rain formation process

Purpose of the study: find out how rain is formed

Research objectives:
- find stories about rain, about natural phenomena;

- read, study, note interesting information;
- observe the formation of rain;

Conduct an experiment that will show how raindrops are formed;

Draw conclusions;

Write down interesting facts about rain.

To solve my problems, I used the following methods:

The study of educational literature on the chosen topic.

observation.

Conducting a research experiment.

Selection of photographs, materials on the topic.

Generalization of results and conclusions.

Based on my observations, I put forward hypothesis :rain is drops of water in large numbers falling to the ground from the clouds.

1. What did our ancestors think about rain?

Rain water benefits agriculture and promotes the growth of herbs, fruits, therefore, the well-being of peoples depends on it.

People have long composed legends about rain, called it the tears of the sky, the life-giving force that gives life. At the same time, rain could become a punishment from heaven, leading to a worldwide flood.

There were gods and spirits that controlled the rain, spells to call or stop the rain. In many cultures, a special is performed during a drought. In dry areas, such as Africa, rain is considered a blessing.

2. What is rain.

Rain is drops of water falling to the ground in large quantities from clouds and clouds.

3. How rain is formed.

From solar heat water from the surface of puddles, streams, lakes, rivers, seas and oceans and streams evaporates and turns into steam. Steam is very, very small droplets of water, so small that you can't see them with your eyes.

The vapor is very light, it rises up into the air, very high. There, where always, even on the hottest summer day, it is very cold, like in winter.

Droplets are light, like fluff, they are perfectly kept in the air. Together, these droplets form clouds. Clouds soar in the sky and move all the time, because they are pushed by more and more new streams. warm air rising from the ground.

4. Why is it raining.

If it gets warmer, the cloud can completely disappear, dissolve - the droplets evaporate and become invisible. If it gets colder, the droplets merge into larger ones - clouds form. In the clouds, the drops become too heavy to continue their soaring in the sky, they fall to the ground - it's raining.

5. More about rain

Raindrops are “balls” ranging in size from a small grain of sand to a medium-sized pea (from 0.5 to 7 mm). If the drops are smaller, such a rain is called. Droplets larger than 7mm in diameter break up into smaller droplets as they fly out of the clouds, so even with a heavy downpour, the droplets will not be larger.

Rains are different, during heavy rain in one hour, up to 10 cm of water can be poured, that is, approximately “ankle-deep”.

6. What are the rains

Mushroom rain - shallow, drizzling, going into the mushroom season in the light of the sun

Blind rain - rain falling in the light of the sun;

Thunderstorm (rain with a thunderstorm);

Rain with hail;

Snow shower (rain with snow);

Bathing (rolling) rain

Downpour (torrential rain)

Drizzling rain (drizzle)

Striped rain (falling in stripes)

Oblique rain, slanting;

Sitny rain - fine rain, as if "sifted through";

Lingering (overhead) rain;

Rough rain.

7. Signs of rain

8. Interesting facts about rain

1. Tropical rains do not drizzle like those to which we are all accustomed, but fall, just like from a tub.

2. Thursdays in Londonit rains a lot more than on other days. Surprising but true.

3. In Portugal, if it's raining heavily outside, you don't have to go to work.

4. The old Russian meaning of the word rain is “give”, in translation it means “giving life and hope”.

5. The rainiest places on earth are India, China, Japan, Brazil, the countries of Central America. The most arid are deserts, as well as large areas, western territories and America.

6. In Russia, the largest annual precipitation is on the eastern coast and on (more than 2 m per year). The smallest amount of precipitation is on the northern coast (less than 20 cm per year), and the islands

9. Rain Riddles

Without a path and without a road

Walks the longest.

Hiding in the clouds, in the mist,

Only feet on the ground. ( rain)

He makes noise in the field and in the garden,

But it won't get into the house.

And I'm not going anywhere

As long as he goes. ( rain)

10. My experiences

Experience 1.

Imagine that the water in the kettle is a lake. Electricity will help us heat water instead of the sun.

When the kettle boils, the water turns into steam (Fig. 4).

If steam hits a cold surface, it will turn into water. This phenomenon is called condensation.

We cool the steam with a glass of cold water and ice (Fig. 5).

The steam turns into water droplets that flow down (Fig. 6), just like rain comes from a cloud.

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conclusion: When boiling water turns into steam, when cooled, the steam turns into water

Experience 2.

Squeeze a dry ball of cotton tightly. Then they lowered it into a saucer with water (Fig. 7). The cotton ball will unfold and swell with water. Carefully lifted the cotton wool (with tweezers) by the upper part above the saucer. If there is enough water, then drops will begin to fall in the saucer (Fig. 8).

Imagine that we have a small cloud in our hands, it is saturated with water. There was a lot of water. Our cloud has turned into a cloud, the droplets cannot stay in it and begin to fall (Fig. 9). It's raining.

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conclusion: the cloud, filling with water, turns into a cloud, the droplets cannot stay in the cloud and begin to fall to the ground in the form of rain.

Conclusion

In the course of this work, I learned that rain is ordinary water that falls from the sky, from the clouds.

Together with my parents, I conducted experiments that helped to see how the formation of raindrops occurs, and why drops start to drip from the clouds.

I realized that rain is one of the links in the chain called "the water cycle in nature." Rain is formed when warm vapor from the ground cools in the air and turns into water droplets.

Thus, my hypothesis is that rain - these are drops of water, in large quantities falling to the ground from the clouds, was confirmed.

Bibliography.

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allforchildren.ru

genon.ru

iceybiblio.amoti.ru

meritnation.com

minitigra.com