INNOVATION IN THE PROCESS OF TEACHING THE WORLD AROUND US AND GEOGRAPHY
This article investigates the application of innovative methods for the formation of ecological culture of students on the lessons of the world around us and geography with use of knowledge of the Tatar people about the nature. The experimental work was conducted using environmental-oriented learning tools. Various methods of differentiated approach to the study of the subject were used, individual work on the basis of system specifications, with different levels of ecological culture of students was conducted. Practical experiments were conducted in the gymnasiums № 4 and № 15, Russian-Tatar gymnasium№ 81 of Kazan, Uraiskaya secondary school of Aznakaevsky district, the Republic of Tatarstan that allowed us to conclude that the use of the sayings, proverbs, riddles, songs of the Tatar people during the lessons contributes to updating and expanding the students´ knowledge about nature and understanding its ecological value, awakens the desire to protect nature, and forms pupils´ ecological culture.