A student has to be an active participant of modern educational process. It can be achieved by introducing active forms of education in educational process. The article is devoted to one of such forms – to educational and research work of students, namely use of laboratory works with elements of scientific researches when carrying out a workshop on analytical chemistry. In the article there are methodical recommendations about performance of laboratory works on analytical chemistry with elements of scientific researches. It is proved that such form of education promotes activization of cognitive and analithic-synthetic activity, improvement of quality of specialists training, developing creative thinking and independence in future graduate.