MODERN TEXTBOOK «NATURAL SCIENCE» FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: ISSUES OF STRUCTURE AND CONTENTS ORGANIZATION

Abstract

Implementing new content of education through the State standards determines the necessity of creating new quality textbooks as the main keepers of this content. The article discusses the didactic and methodological requirements for the textbook «Natural» primary school. It is shown in textbooks as «Natural» for grades 1-4 publishing «Geneza» implemented some of these requirements, namely compliance with complex learning objectives, a comprehensive representation of the natural material, the optimum ratio of knowledge about nature and their practical use, the presence of obscheestestvennym component including material other subjects. Signifi cant attention is paid to methodical apparatus of the textbook that plays signifi cant role in organization of schoolchildren learning the material. The main ideas are classifi cation of educational objectives through teaching and learning of pupils. Alongside reproductive and productive tasks, the textbooks beginning with those for junior schoolchildren include creative tasks, which presuppose applying their knowledge in new situations. In article revealed the function tutorial. The role and functions of extra-text components of the textbook have been exposed, the dominant of which being assigned to illustrations. The illustrative material as a structural component of the natural science textbook is called to realize the main functions of a textbook, namely, informational, developing, educational, and forming.