Field educational expeditions as a way to implement a meta-subject approach in teaching schoolchildren

The paper discusses the types and features of school expeditions and their role in the meta-subject approach of teaching schoolchildren. An expedition is an off-site event that is conducted according to a developed program in order to learn and study the territory and/or several objects. Depending on the goals and objectives, research, educational, historical and local history school expeditions are distinguished. An educational expedition is understood as an extensive, well-designed event organized by teachers of various subjects to consolidate the knowledge of students acquired at school, to acquire skills to solve various problems in society. The educational expedition can be used both in regular and extracurricular activities in order to implement a meta-subject approach in teaching schoolchildren. Since 2021, the educational project «Interesting lessons in sneakers» has been implemented in Secondary School № 14 of Novocheboksarsk of the Chuvash Republic. A program, a scenario, didactic materials, feedback questionnaires are compiled for each educational expedition, and the necessary documents are prepared for the organization and holding of the event. Within the framework of the project, 6 field educational expeditions were conducted with a total coverage of more than 160 people: «Time to fly», «In the footsteps of Robinson Crusoe», «Sursky Frontier», «A visit to the marmots», «Tsvetik-semitsvetik», «BBK». Conducting educational expeditions increases the natural science functional literacy of students, develops cognitive and research skills.