School-based educational and experimental sites: from popularization of the best achievements of agriculture to career guidance work with schoolchildren in the field of agrobiology

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to summarize historical experience and reveal the possibilities currently available to schools for the revival and use of school–based educational and experimental sites as a base and auxiliary tool for conducting biology lessons, various extracurricular and additional classes with schoolchildren aimed at more effective assimilation of the subject and early career guidance. The article analyzes the history of the creation of school sites in our country and the transformation of their main tasks and functions, provides examples of positive experience in the initiation and development of modern career guidance projects for schoolchildren in terms of agricultural and general biological topics, the laying of educational and experimental sites at Moscow school No. 1282 Sokolniki and on the territory of the V. A. Institute of Management Problems. Trapeznikov of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPU RAS). The article also discusses the possibilities of conducting thematic classes using agricultural plants recommended by the authors for planting on a school-based educational and experimental site. The necessity of reviving school-based educational and experimental sites (agro-polygons), which are a well-established base for studying a number of subjects of the natural science cycle, environmental education, organization of extracurricular work with schoolchildren, as well as socially useful work, is substantiated. As a result, the authors conclude that conducting such classes will contribute to the knowledge of the world around them, the formation and development of personality, the acquisition of necessary knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as the involvement of schoolchildren in various research projects in natural sciences, the popularization of science among children and youth, the formation of a positive image of various professions related to agrobiological directions (agronomist, breeder, biologist, etc.).