Optimization of the choice of organizational forms f or distance learning

The article describes the methods of case-study technology that allow organizing the research activities of primary schoolchildren: the method of situational analysis, the method of incidents, the method of case-essay, situational role-playing game, game design. The pedagogical potential of research activity lies in the formation of pupils meta-subject skills: information search, analysis and synthesis, the ability to formulate a problem, a hypothesis and conclusions. Case-study technology allows you to activate the research activity of primary schoolchildren by creating a «situation of uncertainty».