Formation of environmental literacy through the study of green chemistry

Abstract

The article deals with the relevance of formation of environmental literacy among school students. Recently there has been a need to balance the requirements for the ability of students to consciously plan their future life in society. This is explained by the emergence of various global problems, for which modern man should be ready and able to solve them. Environmental literacy can be integrated into the study of the environment, more specifically environmental chemistry, in a modern context with green chemistry. The article also studies the definition of "green chemistry" and its principles. The analysis of the content of normative documents regulating the system of general secondary education in terms of providing learning outcomes for the development of ecological literacy in terms of its component of natural science literacy in chemistry lessons within the framework of a shortened curriculum makes it possible to introduce into the variable part of the educational curriculum programs and methods for the development of functional literacy, including ecological literacy.