The article considers the peculiarities of teaching and field practice in invertebrate zoology in the process of forming the readiness of future biology teachers for professional activity in general secondary education institutions. It is proved that teaching and field practice is an effective form of involving higher education students in research activities by means of cognitive excursions, organization of independent scientific research, mastering the methods of biological research and more.

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... The structure and organization of training practice in the field of the right bank of the Kaniv Reservoir within the Cherkasy region, outlines the expedition routes of the study area, studied the most typical invertebrates soil, forests, meadows, freshwater, agrocenoses (orchards, gardens and fields). Examples of organized excursions during the internship are given, during which higher education students acquire the ability to recognize species of local invertebrate