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Author(s):
Editorial Board.
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COVER
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Cover, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2011, GU/NSE
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Author(s):
Editorial Board.
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CONTENTS
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Contents, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2011, GU/NSE
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Author(s):
Liudmila Korozhneva.
Page No : 4-5
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THE NEW APPROACHES TO NATURAL SCIENCE EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
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Beginning of the 21st century - the time of rapid changes. In 2009-2010 in Russian Education has been approved new federal state educational standards for elementary and general education. The basis of the Standard is a systemic-activity approach. The main need is to develop content and technology of education, determine the ways and means to achieve the level of personal and cognitive development of students. Systemic-activity approach as a methodological principle determines the need to study the content of any school subject as a system. Especially the great importance realization of systemic-activity approach gets into natural science education. Realization of systemic-activity approach, which provides a guaranteed achievement of planned results, is possible in applying various educational technologies in science education. The scientific-methodical journal “Natural Science Education” invites the scientists and teachers to take part in discussion of problems of natural science education.
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Author(s):
Vincentas Lamanauskas, Jūratė Armonienė.
Page No : 6-18
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HEALTHY WAY OF LIVING IN COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL: LITHUANIAN UPPER SCHOOL STUDENTS’ POSITION
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Stepping into the 21st century changes inevitably increase in all spheres of human life. The development of technologies, availability of different resources, the shifts of social roles and many other novelties determined human life which is getting more and more complicated. Challenges of modern society in one way or another affect the young person as well and many of them are encouraged to choose unhealthy way of living (e.g., smoking, drugs, immoderate usage of alcohol, unhealthy nutrition and other). Healthy way of living in this context becomes as urgent as never before.
The problem of healthy way of living has obviously many aspects. Over the last decade quite a lot of tests in the sphere of healthy way of living have been carried out in various countries. These tests confirm, in fact, that such components as nutrition, physical activity, overweight, self-evaluation, good learning achievements, health, image, self-confidence, behaviour and other are closely interrelated and influence each other.
The research “Healthy way of living in pupils’ eyes” is based on positivistic-quantitative approach. The authors keep to the position that measurement of causative links between variables is very important. The research was carried out in January-February, 2011. The aim of the research is to investigate Lithuanian comprehensive scho-ol upper school students’ opinions on healthy way of living. In the research the authors’ prepared questionnaire formed from open and closed questions was used (Lamanauskas, Armonienė, 2011). 1265 Lithuanian comprehensive school 9-12 form pupils participated in the research.
It has been stated, that most of the respondents think, that healthy way of living is important and necessary. However, healthy way of living is much more important for girls than for boys. It is believable, that this, first of all, is related with self-evaluation and image. On the other hand, it is believed, that a big gap exists between the understanding of importance of healthy way of living and propagation of such way of living in practice. It has been stated, that approximately one-third of respondents propagate such way of living. Besides, younger pupils propagate more such way of living comparing with senior ones. This can be related with senior form pupils’ bigger occupation, bigger learning load. During the lessons attention is practically not paid to healthy way of living, teachers, in fact, are not interested in pupils’ activity and rest regime and do not help them to plan their daily routine properly. At school pupils do not get enough information on these questions, healthiness events are also very rare in schools.
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Author(s):
Michal Musilek.
Page No : 19-24
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HOW TO INCLUDE RAINBOW FORMATION TO TEACHING OF PHYSICS AT HIGH SCHOOLS USING ICT?
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The basic topics of physics include optics. In teaching of physics at high schools we explain how to assemble and use microscope or telescope but we don't explain to our students why we can see a rainbow in the sky. The article wants to point out that the rainbow formation is an interesting and didactically relevant theme of high school physics, also with strong ties to the mathematics and computer science. We can lead students to create a dynamic model of light beam motion in a drop of water using geometric sketchbook (i.e. Cabri Geometry or GeoGebra). Based on the understanding of the model then students determine so-called rainbow function, calculate and draw its graph using a spreadsheet (i.e. MS Excel or OpenOffice.org Calc). With the use of ICT the interpretation of rainbow formation is easy to understand for students, and it also adds an unusual, yet effective use of two kinds of application software.
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Author(s):
Małgorzata Krzeczkowska, Ewa Odrowąż, Elżbieta Szostak.
Page No : 25-35
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STRATEGIES OF INTRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ISSUES TO THE SCIENCE EDUCATION IN POLAND
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Since 1999 a study subject called ‘Elements of Science’ has existed in Polish primary schools. Elements of the science covers issues from biology, geography, physics and chemis-try. There is no separate university course of studies in Poland that would prepare teachers to teach this subject. Natural science is taught by biology, chemistry, geography, and physics teachers, who obtain additional accreditation in order to teach this subject (Grodzinska-Jurczak, 2000). Students of the Jagiellonian University’s chemistry department can also ob-tain these credentials. In order to do so, they must participate in the Methodology of Teaching of Science course. One of the elements of this course is environmental education. The first aim of this study was to determine to what extent the students at various levels of the educational system are familiar with ecological problems. The second aim was to develop a format for lessons that can be used by teachers to introduce ecological issues in the classroom or through extra-curricular activities.
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Author(s):
Vanessa Mendes Carrera, Agnaldo Arroio.
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MOVIES IN NATURAL SCIENCE EDUCATION: NEW TRENDS
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Media have played a relevant role in society because it is through them that values and concepts of our time are incorporated by teenagers and children. It is important to understand these effects as the young generation is exposed to these media and also how it would be possible to take advantage of this influence to school practices. Focused on this issue, the influence of media, in special movies, how the research in science education had been studies this trend. These work it is an art state which focuses on understands how and what kind of research related with this issue in Natural Science Education in Brazil. For this, we used the full papers presented at the ENPEC- Brazilian Conference on Research in Science Education from 1997 (date of the first meeting) to 2009 (the recently). It is expected that this knowledge will allow evaluating and redirecting these educational researches related to this issue based on our results with the theme cinema and education.
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Author(s):
Sergei Teleshov.
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GENIUM LOCI PROFESSOR AARNE TYLDSEPP (ON THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF THE SCIENTIST)
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Many people, perhaps, had a stable stereotype that a scientist is a laconic, restrained, pedantic person, immersed in his science without a trace. In many ways, there is a reason here - after all, not many manage to achieve scientific heights. Let us recall Mendeleev's: "In the work of science, many are called, so that a few select ones come out."
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Author(s):
Vincentas Lamanauskas.
Page No : 48-48
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INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC PRACTICAL CONFERENCE “INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN SCIENCE EDUCATION-2011”
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On November 9–12 of this year, the International Scientific-Practical Conference “Information Communication Technologies in Science Education 2011” 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. This conference continues the tradition of the international ARiSE research project. The first such conference took place in 2006. Special attention is paid to ICT in the process of natural science education.
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Author(s):
Editorial Board.
Page No : 51-52
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