On the role of the subjective factor in the knowledge of biological reality

The article considers the process of forming a biological picture of the world among younger students. The author proves that the ideas of primary school children about nature are autoecological. Children are only interested in the life of individual organisms outside their connection with the habitat, so schoolchildren are not fully guided in how the organism lives in nature, how its life, structure and development are associated with the habitat. Recommendations are made to school teachers on the translation of personal ideas of schoolchildren about nature into adequate and scientific ideas.