Methodological practice of the "Computer science and robotics" integrated course for elementary schools

one of the trends in modern Russian school education is the formation of functional literacy. One of the components of functional literacy is engineering literacy. It includes the following skills: working with digital equipment, teamwork and interaction, ability to analyze and formulate problems and hypotheses, and draw conclusions. The formation of student basics engineering literacy in the context of primary general education is considered. It includes algorithmization elements, creative and critical thinking, basic computer skills and information literacy necessary for future study of computer science and robotics in basic school. This article describes the methodological features of the author's integrated course for elemen-tary school. It is developed to form the foundations of engineering literacy for students in grades 3 and 4. The research materials contain the development of classes based on computer science and robotics and recommendations for conducting these classes. To test the course the basic concepts were clarified and the provisions of the author's methodology were formulated. Testing took place as part of the basic and additional education of children. As a result of the analysis of the data col-lected the author's developments were supplemented and presented additionally in the format of electronic educational and methodological materials. In the future the materials can be used to de-velop integrated courses for elementary schools based on other subjects. The technique has shown its effectiveness in comparison with the separate study of computer science in the classroom and robotics in the frame of additional education. Integration made it possible to comprehensively form the subject knowledge and skills of students, instrumental skills, logical and algorithmic thinking.