The associative field of the word “nature” in the ecological picture of younger schoolchildren’s world

The article considers the bases of the ecological picture of the world and the basic concepts of Russian and foreign scholars. The authors describe the formation of the younger schoolchildren's ecological picture of the world. This first stage of education promotes the bases for the personality formation that helps to create the consistent and continuous system of the personal ecological culture shaping and evolving. The main goal is to consider the associative field of the world “nature” in the picture of the world of the younger schoolchild. The article presents the interpretation of the term “ecological picture of the world” and reveals practical implications if the research.