V monografii predstavleny teoreticheskie, psikhologo-pedagogicheskie osnovy konstruirovaniya i ispol'zovaniya uchebnykh zadach ekologicheskoy napravlennosti i predlozheny soderzhanie i metodika uchebnykh zadach v usloviyakh modernizatsii rossiyskogo obrazovaniya. Rassmatrivayutsya osobennosti uchebnoy zadachi kak sushchestvennyy komponent uchebnoy deyatel'nosti mladshego shkol'nika - prinyatie, postanovka uchebnoy zadachi i samostoyatel'nyy vybor puti ee resheniya. Material monografii mogut pol'zovat'sya studenty pedagogicheskikh, ekologicheskikh, estestvennonauchnykh distsiplin v pedagogicheskikh kolledzhakh, VUZakh pri prokhozhdenii pedagogicheskoy praktiki, studenty pedagogicheskikh i drugikh distsiplin, soiskateli i aspiranty, vedushchie issledovaniya po aktual'nym problemam obrazovaniya.