Day of Young Environmentalist was held in the school camp “Olympiets” at the Aznakaevo gymnasium. The event for the students was organized by specialists of the Priiksky territorial administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. They acquainted the children with the activities of professional environmentalists –- inspectors in the field of environmental protection, told about nature protection measures and actions, showed control instruments. Of particular interest among schoolchildren was the Laboratory at the Ministry of Ecology, where air, soil, and water analyses are carried out. The kids were able to conduct some basic experiments and learn about the influence of pollutants on the environment state. As experts noted, such events are one of the effective organizational forms of work on the adaptation of children to life in society and their socialization. Here they can conduct observations, study natural phenomena, get acquainted with the functional dutues of the ecological laboratory. Such events create conditions for the aesthetic development of the inner world and the formation of moral values, stimulate the creative personality, thinking, contribute to the formation of the foundations of ecological culture from the standpoint of a person-oriented approach. The Day of Young Environmentalist is conducted with the aim of forming an ecological outlook of the younger generation and the vocational guidance of schoolchildren.
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