Basic mechanics courses were compulsory basic technical courses for engineering undergraduates from application-oriented universities. In order to improve teaching efficiency and quality of basic mechanics courses for application-oriented universities and meet the needs for innovative persons with high makings in 21 century, aiming at current teaching situation of basic mechanics courses, according to the orientation and training goal of application-oriented universities, teaching reform and practice of basic mechanics courses was studied and discussed in the article from teaching content, teaching method, experiment and practice, testing method and so on respectively.