Abstract:

Modern society lives in a time of rapid change, in a time of expansion of science and technological development, and as such seeks rapid adjustment of the educational process. At a time when scientific facts are increasingly multiplying, knowledge has become fragmented into individual areas, and there is a danger that as such it will become unusable. One of the basic ways to overcome this problem is to provide an integrative approach in the educational process. By applying an integrative approach in teaching biology, students are given the opportunity to look at biological teaching content holistically, from multiple perspectives. Thus, biology as a subject is closer to real life, the natural human environment in which everything is interconnected. One of the ways to organize an integrative approach in biology teaching is correlation, ie interdisciplinary integration of biology with geography. The goal of connecting biological with geographical teaching contents is to appear and see the processes that take place in nature as a whole. With such an approach, the teaching process becomes more meaningful and creative, and the knowledge acquired becomes more permanent and practically applicable. However, although the integrative approach in teaching has a number of didactic advantages, research in the field of its application in teaching practice shows that it is still not sufficiently represented in school practice in the Republic of Serbia, as well as in other European countries. In order for this type of organization of the teaching process to be more represented in the educational process at all levels of education, especially in primary school, this paper presents the theoretical characteristics of integrative teaching, as well as the possible implementation of teaching based on interdisciplinary correlation of biological and geographical content in primary school. The correlation of these contents was made within the teaching topic "Unity of material and function as the basis of life", prescribed by the Biology Curriculum in the fifth grade of primary school. Due to the indisputable values and positive effects of a comprehensive, multifaceted view of phenomena and processes that take place in nature on student achievement, students' attitudes towards science, it is recommended to have an integrative approach in modern biology teaching as well as in related sciences in primary school.

Keywords:

Integrative teaching, teaching biology and geography, primary school, lesson scenario.