Keyword: «the world around them»

This article discusses the problems of forming fourth-graders’ ideas about the history of Russia. The possibility of project activities using ICT to create a newspaper aimed at forming ideas about the history of Russia is identified and justified.

The article presents the results of experimental work on the formation of cognitive independence of younger schoolchildren in the classroom of the surrounding world. The role of the teacher as an organizer of effective cognitive activity of younger schoolchildren is defined, during which students' interest in independent search for new knowledge develops.