The article focuses on the issue of shaping learners' systems thinking skills in the context of traditional education using specially elaborated system methods that are implemented based on the standard textbook. Applying these methods naturally complements the existing learning process and contributes to an efficient development of learners' intellectual capabilities and the necessary skills for a holistic discovery of the world. The learning process provides training in a number of specific skills for having a comprehensive approach to organizing and implementing cognitive, theoretical and practical activity, while providing opportunities for learners to acquire and apply various forms of activity and actions which contribute to improve the efficiency and quality of learning, the learner's competitive ability as well as to intensify the learning process. Along with achieving the main learning goal and providing learners with new knowledge, skills and practices, the proposed techniques and methods include the implementation of the acquired knowledge in research and art.