This article examines the possibilities of information competencies of students in school geography. With the help of information technologies in school geography, it is possible to develop information competencies of students. Proper use of age-appropriate information technologies allows students to receive reliable information, develop their information competence. The issue of developing students' competencies is aimed at the priority goals of the advantages of modern education in the "Updating the content of general secondary education".

Conducting the geography subject, the content of which determines the basics of goegraphic education, differs from other subjects by accumulative advantage in teaching nature, society and matter and their interaction, therefore it is a necessary part of the process of achieving the goal in the field of environmental education and education of students at all levels of school education. Since geography is an interdisciplinary and integrated discipline, it teaches the environment and society, including demography, ethnography, tourism, religion, culture and other fields. The development of territories, countries and the world, the main problems of humanity are considered in geography, therefore, methods and techniques in which the world and the concepts occurring in it must be fully happening in it play a key role as a formative subject for students.

Interest in the process of developing information competence of students is important for our study. In this regard, the effectiveness of the use of information technologies in geography lessons is analyzed in the research work based on our own experience. The effective aspects of multimedia technologies for the purpose of increasing competence are considered, the possibilities for developing information competencies of students are determined.

During the study, after the use of information technologies, monitoring was conducted to determine the level of knowledge of schoolchildren. As the results of the experiment show, interest in the subject and the level of knowledge increased significantly in the experimental group compared to the control group. The results of the experiment showed that the use of information technologies in the subject of geography has great importance in the formation of subject competencies of students and the effectiveness of its implementation in general education schools.