Abstract:

In this article, a pedagogical research is being discussed, which is current in the context of CoVid-19 pandemic and made it necessary to conduct online teaching of students between 10-14 years old. The learning process has been reorganized in an electronic environment, which has raised a lot of issues about the efficiency of e-learning and whether it corresponds with the age specifics of the students. We were specifically interested in natural science learning in lower secondary school. It has an interdisciplinary character in the Bulgarian school including physics, astronomy, chemistry and biology knowledge.

Natural science learning is distinguished by a tight relation with practical work – laboratory, experimental, etc. That is why, it is assumed that online learning brings challenges to the educational and upbringing process of students.

The current article describes the aim, object and subject of the diagnostic research. Attention has been paid to the research methods as well as some of the primary results of their application. A suggestion to analyze these results has been made, which would give us information about the condition of the natural science learning process in distance and e-learning, which was predominant in Bulgarian schools in the CoVid-19 pandemic. Some ideas from the result analysis have been described.

Keywords:

Distance learning, e-learning, CoVid-19 pandemy, pedagogical research, students engagement.