KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ACHIEVEMENTS OF NANOTECHNOLOGIES INCONTEMPORARY NATIVE BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY TEXTBOOKS

Abstract

The paper represents separate results of the research analysis upon the contemporary chemistry and biology textbooks content in different educational levels for high school in order to fi nd out educational material that includes knowledge about nanotechnologies. They showed that in contemporary biology textbooks for high school are found only single knowledge elements about nanotechnologies. But in any of these textbooks were not named directions of nanotechnologies development, and also any notions concerning to nanotechnologies are absent. In some modern chemistry textbooks there are some defi nitions of the terms: «nanomaterials», «nanocomposites», «nanotechnologies», «DNA-nanotechnologies», «nanometer», «nanoparticles», «nanotubes». That is why the content of contemporary biology and chemistry textbooks needs correction to add to their content the knowledge about achievements of nanosciences and nanotechnologies.