This article provides information about the methodology of teaching younger schoolchildren the ability to solve cognitive tasks of ecological content.

Among the various teaching methods, cognitive tasks occupy an increasing place, as they are a means of activating the activities of students, developing their creative abilities. Due to the increasing role of theoretical knowledge in all types of people's activities, the increasing requirements for the ability to apply them promptly, the school, preparing students for an active creative life, should form the necessary skills for this. Cognitive tasks are a means of enhancing the effectiveness of the theoretical knowledge obtained, a means of forming independence - a quality necessary for constant self-education, acquisition of new knowledge, orientation in the fast-growing flow of new information. In this regard, cognitive tasks and their use in the educational process can be considered one of the main conditions for the success of the entire educational and cognitive process.

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