FORMATION OF NATURAL SCIENCE LITERACY BASED ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF “SCIENCE AS A WAY OF KNOWLEDGE” TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE NATIONAL AND REGIONAL SPECIFICS OF THE NORTH

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the problem of formation of natural science literacy of primary school children using the idea of understanding “science as a way of knowledge” taking into account the national and regional conditions of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The author emphasizes the need to form natural science literacy in primary school children, taking into account the specifics of the North, which has a natural, ecological character characteristic of the circumpolar civilization. The article substantiates the need to use active forms and methods of teaching and upbringing that have a problem-searching approach that contributes to the formation of students’ needs for creative research activities. The purpose of this article is extension of forming natural-science literacy – after school group lessons, the disclosure of national-regional component in environmental education through systematic enrichment of the empirical beliefs of the Sakha people on environmental culture, as well as research projects of the real conditions underlying those or other various natural phenomena which are closest to the everyday life of the regional society groups in the classroom “I am an Explorer of the North”. In conclusion, the results of testing are presented, which show positive assessment of the dynamics of development of the level of formation of natural science literacy of primary school children.