Keyword: «ethnocultural education»

The article deals with the actual problem of forming holistic ideas about the small peoples of the North of Russia among younger schoolchildren. The author substantiates the potential of project activity as an integrative method combining cultural-anthropological, activity-based, age-psychological and region-oriented approaches. The results of the "Family of Russia" project, which resulted in the creation of a collective book, are presented. The effectiveness of the proposed pedagogical conditions in the development of fourth-graders' ideas about geography, everyday life, holidays and culture of the small peoples of the North is proved.