Keyword: «psychological inertia»

The paper offers an option of filling the content of the discipline "Fundamentals of design" for 10 grade students of higher school. The program is an obligatory component of the regional curriculum of edu-cational institutions of the Kirov region. Organization of students activities is performed in the active form in three complementary and interdependent lines: technology of creation and description of a project; improving students’ personal qualities for successful mastering project activity; methods of scientific creativity and development of creative personality by means of project activities. The result of the discipline are socially relevant research projects, designed by students.