Keyword: «microcontroller programming»

The process of knowledge accumulation resulted in a significant increase in the amount of information, which is reflected in the content of education. New educational information is interdisciplinary in nature. The forms of interdisciplinary approach in modern education are extracurricular courses on robotics, technical construction and modeling, microcontroller programming, digital laboratories, nanotechnology and computer modeling, physical and mathematical training of students to continue their studies in universities, formation of students' natural science literacy. Modern concepts of interdisciplinary approach implementation are STEM-education and NBICS-convergence. The aim of this article is to describe educational practices reflecting the application of interdisciplinary approach in school education. The given materials are the result of analyzing scientific literature, observations of schools and institutions of additional education, the results of the author's own practice of teaching students at pedagogical university in the content fields of STEM-education and NBICS-convergence. The study confirmed that a large number of teaching and learning materials for the implementation of the interdisciplinary approach have been created nowadays; these tools substantially correspond to the concepts of STEM-education and NBICS-convergence. Traditional training in school subjects Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science for engineering and physics-technical specialties in higher education is also interdisciplinary in nature. The theoretical significance of the article consists in specifying the content component of the interdisciplinary approach in school education for career guidance of students to actual engineering and physics-technical specialties. The practical significance lies in the description of a set of modern educational practices that should be included in the training of bachelor's and master's degree programs of the training area “Pedagogical Education” in the specialties related to the teaching of physics, mathematics, computer science. The most effective tool for the implementation of interdisciplinary approach is the training of schoolchildren in additional education programs. Among all interdisciplinary directions of additional engineering and physics education of schoolchildren, robotics deserves attention as one of the key technologies of the fourth industrial revolution. Natural science literacy is the key direction of interdisciplinary approach implementation at the level of basic education.