Gamtamokslinis ugdymas / Natural Science Education

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Authors: Lyudmila Korozhneva

Development of education system in various countries is based on some definite con-cepts which form its methodological foundation. Those include systematic, activity, subject, competence, learner-centered and culturological approaches. Natural science education is one of the education areas changing much more rapidly than the others; and the directions of these changes depend on the problems comprehension and selection of approaches to their solution. Content of natural science education and the process of its learning are among the problems whose solution could facilitate students’ cognitive activity. The content of natural science education of schoolchildren is presented in the textbook “The World around Us”. There are more than ten alternative editions of textbooks recom-mended for teaching in schools nowadays. Therefore we face the need to develop a system of basic (supportive) knowledge that could enable the schoolchildren to continue their natural science learning at the next stage. The present article gives a brief characteristic of basic knowledge on the school subject. The appropriate learning process organization is vital for the basic knowledge included in the educational programs and textbooks to become the supportive means in schoolchil-dren’s activity. It should be noted that while the content of education is pre-determined, a teacher determines the process of its learning and chooses the methods of teaching. Good results in natural science education could be achieved provided that the teacher’s activity is innovative and focused on educational process improvement. Scientists and teachers search innovative ways of teacher-student interaction as well as support for student’s position as the subject of the learning process.

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Authors: Laima Railienė

In a modern geography lesson it is important to use the ICT. The usage of ICT not only makes the lesson more varied, gives more information, develops students‘ skills and common competences but it also deepens students‘ skills. The Internet in geography lessons helps to make students be more interested in geogra-phy, search for information deepening knowledge from their taught theme. There are lots of Internet geography teaching devices and web sites. The article deals with the Internet teaching devices for geography and gives the exam-ple of the lesson where one of the methods is ICT.

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Authors: Anatoly V. Turlov, Sergei V. Teleshov

This article presents the history of the study of various periodic processes, related to physics and chemistry. A significant contribution to the study of oscillatory processes have made by German scientists from the 19th century. Then, the initiative passed to the scientists of other countries. For a long time it was thought that the vibrational response - it's just only a figment of the imagination. The greatest scientists have denied the possibility of their existence. Unfortunately, this was due to an incorrect interpretation of the second law of thermodynamics. The situation changed dramatically after the work of А.Zhabotinsky and his colleagues. Now, the reaction of this type is called «BG-reaction». Oscillatory movements even as physics course is replaced by natural sciences, are there proper place. This article deals with the review of different types of oscillating processes on metametodic level. Mod-ern computer technologies allow graphic images of oscillatory processes. However, students need to make sense of the image according to mathematical calculations and try to make the right conclusions. Use the metametodic approach is the way to success. We are of the view that the task of the school is not to teach one or the other branch of knowledge, but to teach the scientific method.