Educational quests in biology as a form of organizing career guidance work with schoolchildren

This article describes the problem of using educational biology quests for career guidance work with students, as well as their use to deepen and expand biological knowledge, activate cognitive activity. In a modern school, it is necessary to organize such classes, during participation in which the activity of students is transformed from passive to active, search, research. This can be achieved through the use of educational biology quests. To deepen the biological knowledge of students, activate their cognitive activity and help in professional self-determination, we have developed a set of biology quests with a single storyline based on a popular work of art among schoolchildren. They are based on the use of active teaching methods, which forms a positive emotional attitude to biological disciplines and the entire process of cognition, activates educational motivation and depth of material acquisition, promotes the creative development of students, and develops information activity skills. The article presents a methodological development of one of the educational biological quests of this series «Secrets of the Forbidden Forest», including the goal, tasks, legend, main task, plot and course of the game.