Recently, one has become concerned about the quality of natural science and social education basics of the primary school students. Particular attention is devoted to the higher-order thinking ability education. In the qualitative research, it was analysed what higher order thinking questions and tasks primary school teachers apply in the world cognition lessons. Research data were gathered using a lesson observation method. The gathered data were analysed making a technical picture. Research results showed that primary school teachers proportionally applied lower and higher-order thinking questions and tasks. [For the full proceedings, see ED619611.]