The use of interdisciplinary approach for the formation of learners’ situational interest in Physics

The value of interdisciplinary approach in physics teaching has been analysed. The interdisciplinary approach provides a holistic view of natural phenomena. This contributes to a better assimilation of knowledge by learners, forms the scientific concepts, laws, theories and scientific outlook. The general method of using the interdisciplinary approach in physics teaching has been created. The study of new material, the formation of abilities and skills, and the work on projects are the forms of the interdisciplinary links in physics teaching.

Learners will be not able to understand the educational material, if will not feel the need to study it. Therefore, it is necessary the formation of learners’ interest. The scheme for interest formation towards physics in the context of development of situational and individual interest has been analyzed: curiosity – the active curiosity – attempts to understand – strong knowledge – scientific research. According to the interdisciplinary approach, the tools for the formation of the learners’ situational interest in physics have been allocated. These are phenomena of nature, phenomena of everyday life, link between theory and practice.

The results showed that interdisciplinary approach in physics teaching increases the level of learners’ situational interest and scientific level of teaching. This contributes to formation the learners’ scientific outlook. The use of interdisciplinary approach in physics teaching develops the abilities in solving of tasks and measure of physical quantities, and forms the scientific abilities and skills. Working with textbooks, reference books and online resources, project scheduling, formulation annotations are the scientific abilities and skills of learners. Proposed general method of using the interdisciplinary approach can be used for teaching other sciences. Prospects for the results of this research are: study of the formation of learners’ individual interest in physics using interdisciplinary approach, and study the interdisciplinary links between other school subjects.