The role of design and research activity in the formation of the environmentally directed thinking of primary school children

Abstract. In our modern time research work is relevant and valuable as never. The research of the world helps the child to take a fresh look at nature. The understanding of the relationship between a man and nature creates ecological thinking of children in the right direction. The child feels the nature with the soul – he is a small environmental researcher interested in everything, delighted with beauty and distressed with injustice. The purpose of a teacher is to make cognitive activities of the children more interesting and practical. Helping to create the environmental projects for children, a teacher carries out his educational project – form the environmentally directed thinking of primary school children.