DESIGNING THE LESSON OF ASTRONOMY BASED ON THE MODERN SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT OF THE WORLD DEVICE
Practice shows that the vast majority of secondary school graduates have an extremely low quality of knowledge in astronomy. It is supposed to increase the efficiency of astronomy teaching process by applying a system-activity approach to the study of astronomical concepts, and through them to form a scientific picture of the world. The article discusses the characteristic features of the astronomy studying process. It is shown that the main method of studying astronomy is the method of scientific models of astronomical phenomena. Advantages and disadvantages of this method are scrutinized in the article. It is raised the question about the understanding of educational material. It is justified the idea of applying scientific concepts of astronomical reality as a basis for building an astronomy lesson. The idea of scientific concepts is revealed as a logical organizing factor in the description of factual material in the language of concepts and categories of astronomy. As an example, it is scrutinized a lesson on the subject "Fundamentals of Modern Cosmology" from the astronomy schoolbook of Vorontsov-Veliaminov, B. A. and Straut, E. K. By building the lesson, it was used the program "Generator of technological maps" which was developed at our department. It is shown the consistency of the idea of applying scientific concepts as a basis for building a lesson.