NATURAL SCIENCE EDUCATION DISSEMINATION OF GOOD PRACTICE IN PRIMARY CLASSROOMS: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
Authors: Jurgaitienė Gintarė , Kazakevičienė Silvija 
Published: January 2022

Today‘s the worldwide educology emphasizes the new principal of the twentieth century methods – teacher-child interaction. The main attention is given to the students' activities and a variety of forms, teacher-student collaboration, creative interaction, orientation on the self-sufficient, responsible personality education and creativity. One of the most effective methods, practiced in primary classes, are didactic games.
It is important to provide a general understanding of natural sciences in the first years of the school. The provisions, that child forms during this period, determines his decision to study world and gain knowledge of the world later and it is difficult to change them. It is therefore important to build a positive approach to this subject in school. As it was already mentioned, the method of didactic games is one of the most suitable ways to promote a positive attitude towards the education of natural sciences. This method, applicable in a primary school, helps to develop skills of natural science and general knowledge. Didactic games can be applied both inside and outside the classroom. Most importantly, they have to be associated with the content of the lesson. Joining two forms of activities - the game and teaching, the teacher should keep students' independence, the basis of the game, the joy and satisfaction that it provides. At the same time planned knowledge must be gained, skills and abilities must be formed (Bennett, 1993). In order to achieve good results, it is essential to connect learning content with a game, because the game method is as important as a specific purpose of it. If teacher wants to use this method, he needs to project its purpose. By providing the objective, the teacher foresees how to make students interested in a game, how to involve them in it and so on. So the teacher‘s preparation and the ability to apply didactic games in the classroom is essentially important.
The lessons of the world knowledge outside the classroom cannot be performed without observation and testing. Observation deepens the theory, develops the ability to apply them while interpreting natural processes and phenomena. Observation, testing and research, provides knowledge about the environment itself and helps students to get to know themselves better and develop a scientific mindset, skills. The ability to explain and argue encourages every person‘s critical thinking. Most of the students are especially motivated by presenting their own tests, demonstrations, conclusions and summary. Learning and playing outside the classroom, encourages children to acknowledge the nature‘s mystery, take care of it and love it.
Let‘s do not forget that teacher can fix student‘s attention on many things and situations that he considers to be important, but he can discover nothing for a student - this can only be done by student himself.
The authors of this paper have examined the impact of outside didactic games on pupils and provided several examples of them, that can be adapted to the world‘s knowledge lessons outside the classroom.
Key words: science education, global awareness, didactic games, effective form of training, critical and analytical thinking, education (s) outside the classroom, research, discoveries.