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Editorial Board.
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COVER
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Cover, Vol. 10, No. 3, GU/NSE, 2013
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Author(s):
Editorial Board.
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CONTENTS
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Contents
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Author(s):
Lyudmila Korozhneva.
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NATURAL SCIENCE EDUCATION: PROBLEMS AND INNOVATIONS
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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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Author(s):
Dirceu D. Dias de Souza , Karen C. Weber, Agnaldo Arroio.
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CONSTRUCTION OF GRAPHICS IN CHEMISTRY: AN ESSENTIAL COMPETENCE IN INVESTIGATIVE ACTIVITIES
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Teaching processes that promote knowledge integration must consider the relevance of graphical literacy, an essential competence to investigative activities in natural science education. The aim of this study is to analyze the treatment given to the domain of constructing graphics in the official documents related to scholar curriculum in Brazil and to debate it at the light of classroom practices. So, the recent literature on the topic is analyzed, as well as Brazilian official pedagogical orientations. Also, an activity on graphical construction was proposed to high school students and a teacher was interviewed. The results obtained indicate a twilight zone for graphical construction in the official doc-uments, which extends to teaching training and reflects into classroom practices, creating a vicious circle composed by the incongruence in the orientations, limitations in teaching training and therefore in students’ learning, which demonstrate a heuristic and a superficial vision of graphical construction when solving Chemistry problems. The implications of these results point out the urge to broaden this debate in order to include this topic in teaching training undergraduate programs, besides emphasizing the exploration of this issue in the classroom.
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Author(s):
Laima Railienė.
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THE ASPECTS OF USING THE INTERNET IN GEOGRAPHY LESSONS
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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 geography, 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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Author(s):
Sergei Teleshov, Elena Teleshova.
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VERHOVSKIY AND HIS METHODICAL HERITAGE: “СHEMICAL ALPHABET”
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This article plunges us into the history of chemistry teaching methods - one of the most interesting methodological sciences. This paper focuses on a methodical review of the most, perhaps, the famous Russian and productive practitioner. Vadim Verhovskiy known for his books and instruments created by him, and his famous «Techniques and methods of chemical experiment». This article briefly describes the didactic activity of the largest Russian practitioner of the first half of the twentieth century. He was a leading expert in the theory and methodology of school chemical experiment. He also was the author of a workbook, school textbooks, books to read, various means of visibility: models and instruments. «Сhemical alphabet», which he created in 1927, allows students in visual form design formula of various classes of substances. This «Alphabet» and guidelines for it, made specifically for students can promptly be consciously formulas of substances and write the equations of chemical reactions. His advice and experience, we can actively and usefully applied in working with contemporary students. The unique experience should not be lost. It was to be hoped that the methodical heritage of V. Verhovskiy will be in demand also in the 21st century too.
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Author(s):
Anatoly V. Turlov , Sergey Teleshov.
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NATURAL PERIODIC PROCESSES IN SCHOOL SCIENCE COURSES: THE METAMETODIC ASPECTS
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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.
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Author(s):
Vincentas Lamanauskas.
Page No : 48-48
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INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC-PRACTICAL CONFERENCE “INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN SCIENCE EDUCATION-2013”
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On October 24–25 of this year, the international scientific-practical conference “Information and Communication Technologies in Science Education 2013” was held at the Faculty of Education of Šiauliai University. It was organized by the Research Center for Science Education of Šiauliai University. The main partner of the conference is the Scientific Methodological Center "Scientia Educologica". The conference was partially supported by the Lithuanian Science Council.
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Author(s):
Editorial Board.
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