Gamtamokslinis ugdymas / Natural Science Education

8-18

Authors: Jūratė Mocartienė, Rita Makarskaitė-Petkevičienė

The article presents the results of the research in adoption of the content of the programme “Water” developed by the scientists from the University of Rostock. The sample of the research included school learners from the 2nd and 3rd forms. The data of three testings were analysed and the evaluated change in the school learners’ knowledge development proved that application of the methodology of the programme “Water” significantly improved the respondents’ knowledge of water, its structure, states, the water cycle, the mechanism of water treatment and self-cleaning. This knowledge includes and expands not only learning about the environment, but also develops school learners’ ecological attitude to nature and natural resources. However, only well-established long-term knowledge (which is the focus of the programme under discussion) will ensure the application of this knowledge in the further process of natural science education. The article also presents the analysis of school learners’ reflections on learning, which shows that the respondents, involved in the investigation of the discussed object (i.e. water in this case) demonstrated a better acquisition of the presented material since visual aids, motivation and active involvement of learners are as relevant as the presented information itself. The conducted research allowed to evaluate the role of the programme “Water” in long-term knowledge adoption, that is, learning and internalisation of concepts. The change in test results showed that information provided together with the concepts daily used by children, which gradually are changed into scientific ones, has a positive effect on formation of concepts of natural science education, their un-derstanding and learning.

28-32

Authors: Laimutė Salickaitė-Bunikienė, Rita Račiulaitytė, Andrej Rožkov, Aušra Gaidamavičienė

The objective of International Scientific-Practical Conference „MuseumScouts“ – Transforming Learning – Teachers developing innovative practice using interactive technologies and teamwork“ was promote dialogue between cultures and modern methods of students' education, bringing together people interested in information technology application in education, to examine the humanitarian and natural education topics, share experiences and disseminate it. As well as to stimulate the development of education process, pupil self-teaching and search of new effective teaching methods. This conference was a great opportunity to share the lessons of the creation of interactive experiences. The conference deals with the contemporary problems of teachers. These are the quality of hu-manitarian and natural education, relations of people and the different cultures as both formal and informal education object, information technology application in formal and non-formal education. In this in-ternational conference the representatives of schools participating in the Museum Scouts project (CBT + L Computer Based Training + Learning GmbH (Herrshing, Germany), the Institut fuer independent Envi-ronment (Berlin, Germany), Pedagogische Hochschule des Bundes (Linz, Austria), blended learning Network ( Ponte de Lima, Portugal), The Hermatige Technical College (Durham, the UK), Graduate School of Education of the University of Bristol (the UK), Lithuania schools of general education) will share their experiences. Conference meetings was of mutual cooperation, training and learning, based on modern information technology application in education. CBT + L Computer Based Training + Learning GmbH (Herrshing, Germany) program EVOLUTION in frames of the project was dedicated to secondary school teachers of all subjects, looking for new approaches and seeing interesting things integrity of its relationship with different direction and content of museums. Most of the lessons have been created by using the information on the great cultural arts, cultural and scientific values stored in various museums. These values are important not only for human spiritual development, but, as experience shows, can be limitless, training promoting, raising the appropriate contents source of knowledge. The relationship that can be easily found between educational content and museums of arts, nature, and technology creates the preconditions of interesting, new content subjects with content meeting the educational process requirements. Clearly visible and foster is close cooperation between several subjects and the cooperation of teachers, because well-designed training materials for use in lessons or extra-curricular activities help to properly shape worldview and values. It is very important to expanding knowledge society with the capability to use all modern information technologies and their opportunities and self-learning, not only now but also throughout life.

38-42

Authors: Danutė Plytnykienė, Ramunė Vėželytė

Pre-school institution is the first stage of formal education system in the Republic of Lithuania. Each institution creates its own particular education system, coordinates methods, raises tasks corresponding to the requirements of children, family, closest natural environment and society. The report provides a naturalistical training model reflecting the nature study in various systems of education and in formation of cultural values. The report also underlines the fragment of training contents reflecting the particularity of institution’s programme and the integrity of naturalistical training. According to the analysed attitude of values the natural world is conceived as undivided and inte-gral. Cultural values are engrained in children’s senses on the basis of naturalistical training. This capacitates children to become mature personalities, thus being able to apply acquired knowledge and competences, to solve problems of every-day life, to cultivate self-confidence, to feel responsibility and to be able to adjust to the changeable environment.

47-54

Authors: Alexander E. Sobolev, Vladimir I. Lutsik, Tatyana N. Mukhina, Tatyana A. Gorbunova

In this article, the experience of the creation and examination of the continuous natural science educational system “secondary school – high educational establishment” at the Tver State Technical University and the municipal educational establishment “Secondary school No. 45 of Tver” was discussed. The basic forms of such collaboration were considered, and its concrete examples were given. It is shown that the correct organization of the integration process promotes improvement of the quality of education and the perfection of the educational and scientific processes both at the school and in the university. An approbation of the idea of development of the senior profile school as one of the segments of the regional scientifically-educational complex and its transformation into the professional senior school was put in the basis of the system of continuous natural science education. Sharing of the material resources of school and university has brought the essential contribution to the development of the educational process, has enriched it with the variety of new possibilities. In particular, the integrated approach to the application of modern software and hardware has allowed creating the uniform multimedia lecture&laboratory complex using the majority of modern educational technologies. The successful example of the integration of natural science education in the system “secondary school – university” was realization of the joint project of Tver State Technical University and secondary school no. 45. This project was devoted to the working out and application of new educational technologies and models of continuous natural science education on the basis of use of the modern educational equipment for studying of nanotechnology and nanomaterials (in addition to the existing sections of the school program on physics, chemistry and biology). Being unique in Tver region, this laboratory is working now both for schoolboys and for students. It is found that performance of this project not only promoted the equipment development of the educational process but also has led to the essential updating and perfection of its methodical part and content.

61-64

Authors: Elena Vasilevskaya

An interview with the academician of National academy of Sciences of Belarus, the head of the department of the general chemistry and didactics of teaching of chemistry of the Belarusian State University, professor Anatoly Ivanovich Lesnikovich.