Keyword: «primary school children»

The article contains the results of the research work concerning with determining the effectiveness of health-technology depending on their integration in the educational process. The authors describe diagnostic techniques which were implemented to determine the level of healthy lifestyle of the respondents and the set of health-saving technologies which were conducted to improve the level of healthy lifestyle of participants of the experiment.

The article reports on the condition of coherent oral speech among hearing-impaired children of primary school age. The results of the conducted study are presented. The author gives examples of students’ speech production and defines specific errors made by children with impaired hearing when they retell the texts or construct the sentences independently. On the basis of the obtained data, the conclusion is made about the low degree of students’ readiness to produce coherent statements independently.

Spatial thinking is an important aspect of a child's intellectual development. Spatial thinking, according to I. S. Yakimanskaya, is a specific type of mental activity, the essence of which is operating with spatial images in the process of solving problems that require orientation in both visible and imaginary space. Since visual and imaginative thinking activity of a primary school student is the leading activity, this age is the sensitive period for the development of spatial thinking. Educational robotics has great opportunities for the development of this type of thinking, since it involves not only the mental identification of spatial properties and relationships in objects and phenomena, manipulating with images, but also the handwork, which gives kinesthetic sensations and the ability to operate with real objects. This is a new direction of extracurricular activities in primary school, the potential of which for the development of spatial thinking of students is not sufficiently studied. Accordingly, the purpose of the article is theoretical and experimental substantiation of pedagogical conditions for the formation of spatial thinking of primary school children in robotics classes in extracurricular activities. The leading approach here is the system activity-oriented approach. Training is structured in such a way that it purposefully leads to development, and in the organization of the educational process, the main role is given to active independent cognitive activity of the student under the guidance of a teacher. This study made it possible for the authors to identify pedagogical conditions for the formation of spatial thinking of primary school students at the extracurricular robotics classes, including identifying and taking into account the levels of spatial thinking development in students and the conditions for its further development; competent use of practical work at extracurricular educational robotics classes; application of a series of tasks aimed at the development of spatial thinking of primary school children; equipment of the classroom with the necessary training tools (blocks, laptops, software, didactic materials). The theoretical significance of the article is due to the contribution to the development of methodological ideas about the conditions for the formation of spatial thinking of younger students in extracurricular robotics classes. Practical use of the research results makes it possible to organize extracurricular educational robotics classes for primary school students more effectively.

This article discusses the problems of forming fourth-graders’ ideas about the history of Russia. The possibility of project activities using ICT to create a newspaper aimed at forming ideas about the history of Russia is identified and justified.

the article considers one of the tasks of modern education - the development of critical thinking. Definitions of the concept of critical thinking, stages and methods of work in relation to extracurricular reading are presented. The results of an experiment on the development of critical thinking in the process of extracurricular reading are described.