Students’ attitudes towards the interactive methods used for the purpose of health education

Abstract The study is part of a didactic experiment, aimed at testing the effectiveness of using interactive methods in teaching Biology and Health Education to school students. The interactive methods have been selected in correspondence with the learning objectives of specified methodological units from the sections “Kingdom of Fungi” and “Kingdom of Animals” tested in the conditions of real lessons with students from the 7th Grade of Yoan Exarch Bulgarski Secondary School in Shumen. As a result of the application of interactive teaching methods, students have a conscious and motivated perception of the subject matter, they understand and evaluate their responsibility for human health – their own and that of others, and the acquired theoretical knowledge forms their behavior and readiness for action in solving critical health-related situations in life.