Формирование экологической культуры младших школьников в процессе проектной деятельности

The article reveals the basics of ecological culture of personality, the characteristic of its basic components. In the context of the research, the author pays attention to the process of formation of ecological culture of younger schoolchildren in the course of project activities. Generalization and systematization of work experience in the primary school allowed the author to present and provide a theoretical justification for the algorithm of formation of ecological culture of pupils and to identify factors that influence the effectiveness of this process. The analysis fund of scientific and technical literature on the issue of research shows that environmental education develops in the world practice as a most important measure to overcome environmental hazards. The author lists and describes the stages in the formation of responsible attitude of students to nature. The work discusses the issues of project activities for primary school environmental content, which was carried out in the framework of the module “Environmental Health”.