APPLYING CROSS-DISCIPLINARY LINKS IN STUDYING PHISICS AND GEOGRAPGY IN THE PROCESS OF PUPILS SELF-EDUCATION
The principal target of modern teacher is to activate educational process, evoke need for work among pupils, for obtaining knowledge through work: either under the teacher's guidance or alone. Many problems that school educational system faces are connected with incessantly growing quantities of human knowledge. Integrated approach at various school lessons can facilitate mastering and applying this knowledge by pupils. Science integration in school training is implemented through inter-disciplinary links. Geography is one of the disciplines, teaching which is impossible without connections with other subjects. Interconnections in teaching physics and geography have undergone analysis in this article (based on the example of studying «Electric power of Russia»). Geography and physics inter-disciplinary links allow to concretize geographic learning material, to help pupils consciously remember many general notions. Referring to physical knowledge during geography lessons enables students to apply knowledge about device specific features, their functioning, deployment of various electric power stations for solving practice-oriented tasks within actual life context. Integrated approach in training results in creative thinking development with pupils. Informative and focused integrated lessons give novelty and uniqueness to the customary school education process, provide certain benefits for pupils, for instance, they raise motivation, form cognitive interest, contributing to self-education, boosting pupil's capacity to learn and their morality.