Abstract
The article discusses the development of students' practical skills necessary for life, including research skills, in the educational process. In biology lessons, on the example of knowledge about photosynthesis, an effective methodology for the formation of research skills in students by conducting experiments is proposed. Since the subject of biology is an experimental science, it allows you to develop research and practical skills and abilities. These skills are necessary not only in the educational process, but also in life. Performing laboratory classes in biology will allow you to form practical skills. The methodology of experimental assimilation of knowledge about the process of photosynthesis, which occupies an important place in the content of the discipline biology, is considered. Mastering the mechanisms of autotrophic nutrition to obtain an alcohol extract of chlorophyll, products of photochemical reactions, optical and chemical properties of chlorophyll in the course of laboratory work, students develop practical skills.