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Abstract: The article deals with the problem of training future physics teachers for the preparation and conduct of a modern educational experiment in physics. It shows that the development of the instrumental base of the natural experiment using computer tools and the introduction of information technologies, the inclusion of computer modeling (computational experiment) in the system of educational experiment in physics lead to the need for a special study of the didactic aspects of a comprehensive use of the natural and computational experiment. The authors define the natural computational experiment as a method of teaching physics based on the integration of laboratory experiment and computer simulation and allowing the teacher to obtain new educational results. Three basic forms of combination of a natural and computational experiment were identified and substantiated: parallel execution, sequential execution, and a combined (complex) natural computational experiment. It is argued that various aspects of training of future teachers of physics to use both natural and computational experiments are quite fully expressed by the category of “preparedness”. The article discusses the composition of preparedness and the levels of formation of individual components. The authors present a structural-functional model of the process of formation of preparedness of future teachers of physics to use natural computational experiment and formulate the principles that regulate both the design of the learning content and the organization of the education process. It is emphasized that the principle of providing a variety of combinations of natural and computational experiment plays a special role in the selection of the learning content. It establishes the need to include laboratory works that realize all the basic forms of combination in the system of training. The organization of the laboratory workshop should be carried out in accordance with the regulatory principle of ascent from the natural and computational to the integrated natural computational experiment. The article concludes that it is reasonable and possible to develop a method of special training of future teachers of physics to conduct natural computational experiments.