One of the most important tasks of the modernization of the educational process improvement is the problem with students cognitive motivation development. The article authors attempt to research how the use of everyday history encourages the development for students cognitive motivation from teaching perspective, as well as to provide the results of the application of teachers activity model which was developed by authors, regarding inclusion of everyday history material into the educational process.

Based on the research of the historical, educative and methodical literature, the authors made a conclusion regarding multi-factority and poly-motivation of students’ cognitive activity. As a result of the study, they identified that the modification of the familiar content of history classes by adding everyday material to them, and giving a new reading of past events as history "from below" and "from within", contributes to encourage for the development of cognitive motivation of students.

The study conducted by the authors showed that the use of personally significant material of everyday history for students in the practice of teaching history positively affected the development of educational motivation. The conclusions made by them contribute to the development of theoretical approaches and methodological tools for study of history disciplines.