Scientific educational text as a means of teaching

The article presents the results of the analysis of the concept of a “scientific educational text”, defines the common and specific features of an educational text, the text of a textbook paragraph and the text of a popular science article. Some types of natural science texts are briefly considered. The paper analyzes the issues of scientific literacy of students in the context of the skills formed when working with a natural science educational text, while special emphasis was placed on the formation of the science literacy foundations at school and on the connection of natural science literacy with reading literacy. Existing textbooks and anthologies containing fragments of classic scientific research were analyzed. Using the example of the works of R. Boyle and E. Mariotte, ways of adapting scientific texts and creating methodological support for them in the form of questions and tasks were shown in order to form students’ ideas about scientific research (goals, progress, difficulties encountered, results obtained). The paper raises the question of creating special anthologies in physics, in which different types of texts will be collected both for teaching and for controlling the formation of skills, including those in the field of natural science literacy.