FEATURES OF USING YOUNGER SCHOOLCHILDREN PROJECT ACTIVITIES AS MEANS FOR THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

Abstract

The work studies project activities used for younger schoolchildren as an effective tool for their environmental education. The authors analyze the main milestones in the history of environmental education in primary school in Russia and the world. The most important features that the corresponding process in a modern primary school should possess are established referring to the authors’ experience. At the same time, the psychological and pedagogical characteristics of the contingent are necessarily taken into account. Considerable attention is paid to defining the term “project activity”, which maximally corresponds to the specifics of the primary general education. The authors also explore its possibilities in terms of ecological culture formation in children.