The article analyzes the peculiarities of WebQuest technology application as a means of motivating future primary school teachers to work. The content of concepts “WebQuest”, “WebQuest technology” has been considered. The main stages of work on WebQuest, features of its creation in the Internet have been described. The necessity of introduction of web-technologies into the educational process of higher educational institutions, which promote the formation of motivation future primary school teachers to professional activity, has been substantiated. The methodological basis of the study is a systematic approach to the study of pedagogical science provisions in the WebQuest application. The WebQuest is viewed as an innovative resource-oriented technology aimed at students’ independent search for information required to perform a problem task using Internet resources. It is determined that the WebQuest integrates elements of project, game, problem, and group learning and creates prerequisites for the transformation of new data obtained by students into new knowledge that they can use in their future professional activity. The didactic possibilities of the WebQuest technology for increasing motivation of students of specialty 013 Primary education to the professional activity, formation of their motivated attitude to the teaching, desire to work with high adaptability and flexibility have been described.It is found out that motivation to professional activity is a set of actions of concrete impulse (motives, needs, interests, aspirations, incentives, attitudes, value orientations), which determine the choice of primary school teacher’s profession and long-term performance of duties related to this profession. It has been proved that the application of WebQuest technology creates favorable conditions for the formation of future specialists’ motivations to professional activity, their attitude to independent and systematic updating of knowledge and its effective application in practice.