In school education, the formation of universal educational actions of students is given great importance. At the present stage, quite a lot of research is devoted to this topic, namely: the disclosure of the content of educational activities, the search for effective approaches, methods and means of their development. The purpose of this article is to consider the process of forming school project teams for the implementation of student projects and to assess the impact of this form of interaction on the development of universal educational activities of primary school students.