TOURISM AS A MEANS OF ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION OF PUPILS
The environmental education is impossible without the immediate engagement with Nature. The natural environment clearly affects the development of cognitive abilities, moral and aesthetic education, additionally, being a long time in the fresh air leads to the health promotion and the accumulated emotional stress is removed. The foundations of ecological culture was laid in the process of communication with nature and properly organized pedagogical activity. The child tourism is one of the most effective types of extracurricular activities that contribute to environmental education. Laying the foundations of a positive attitude to the environment, teachers educate love for their native land, respect for the natural resources of the Motherland, to themselves and others. During hiking trips children can learn the history of their native land, explore the composition of flora and fauna and such actions stimulate them to be careful to the environment. The work was carried out on the basis of Municipal budget educational establishment the School № 5 of the Argun town and among the number of environmental projects the most ambitious was the creation of ecological and tourist trails "Take Care of Nature". The aim of the experiment was to study the possibilities of tourism to improve the level of environmental education in a modern educational institution. Students studied the state of the environment of the town during a few camping trips and they developed themselves a sense of responsibility for the preservation of natural resources that have a great importance in the environmental education of students.