This article discusses the results of the work of the section "Informatics" at city conferences, held on the basis of Youth art center “Yunior” in spring 2018, analyzes the activities of students in grades 3–8 of schools in Novosibirsk to involve them in research. Two conferences were held - for primary schoolchildren and for middle school students. Analyzed the answers of the conference participants to the questions of the questionnaire concerning the activity of schoolchildren in the selection of the research topic, participation in the research.

The article deals with such concepts as the environment with the conditions of self-organization, structural human activity, a synergistic approach. The role of sensory forms of knowledge of the geometrical laws of the construction of real world models and analytical-synthetic design activities in creating an educational environment with full existence and beneficial conditions for children's self-organization is analyzed.

The study is dedicated to teachers of national schools that were created in Soviet Russia. The specific object of study was the teachers of Latgalian schools. Latgalian were recognized as an independent ethnos exclusively in the RSFSR (USSR). A significant number of immigrants from Eastern Latvia — Latgale lived in the territory of Western Siberia. It was here that they were given the opportunity to create national theaters and schools, to print literature and time editions in their native language.