Ekaterina Bogdanova

In accordance with the current Federal State Standard of Primary General Education, the organization of project and research activities of primary school children is one of the most important and necessary conditions for the full development and socialization of the child’s personality, carried out through activities aimed at successfully mastering universal learning activities, which is supposed by the fundamental methodology of a system and activity-based approach. The project and research-based learning of primary school children, being insufficiently studied from the point of view of practical implementation, is an alloy of various activities in which the child participates to achieve meta-subject results. However, the potential of this kind of work for primary school students still requires a comprehensive study and practical implementation in schools. Thus, the purpose of the presented article is to describe the content and forms of project and research-based learning of primary school students through activities of "Children's University", justification of the effectiveness of the technology for managing the relevant educational project. The leading approach in this case is the modeling of the project activity system in primary school education with the inclusion of a system and activity-based approach, the project-based and developing education methods. As a result of the study, the practical component of the work is presented: detailed description of all the events taking place on the educational platform, specification of the main classes for primary school students. In the course of the study, the authors carried out work on testing the project management technology for the “Children's University” project, analyzing the data obtained during the ascertaining and control experiments. The theoretical significance of the article is due to the contribution to the development of scientific ideas about the project- and research-based learning of primary school children within the activities complex "Children's University" aimed at harmonizing new knowledge with the level of the student’s abilities development. The practical use of this technology allows us to organize the work of step-by-step introduction of project- and research-based learning into the practice of an educational organization. The article may be interesting to primary school teachers, students of pedagogical areas of training, researchers studying the project- and research-based learning of younger students.