PATRIOTIC EDUCATION OF YOUNGER STUDENTS THROUGH VIRTUAL EXCURSIONS TO MUSEUMS

Abstract

The article is devoted to a problem of patriotic education of younger schoolchildren, who use the educational potential of virtual excursions to various museums in extracurricular activities. Nurturing a patriot of his Fatherland, fostering love for his native land, where a child was born and grows, interest in the history of his country, pride in achievements is an important priority in the country’s educational policy in modern socio-cultural conditions. The aim of the study is to implement pedagogical conditions using virtual excursions to museums of the country and the republic in the patriotic education of primary schools. To achieve this goal, a diagnostic study was conducted to determine the formation of patriotic qualities; a set of extracurricular activities for younger schoolchildren aimed at patriotic education through virtual excursions was developed, and the results of diagnostic tools were presented, showing the positive dynamics of the level of development of patriotic feelings of younger schoolchildren. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that the pedagogical conditions for the use of virtual excursions in extracurricular activities of younger schoolchildren have been identified.