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Efficiency of inquiry based teaching methods in elementary schools
PEŠKOVÁ, Šárka
The main aim of this bachelor thesis is to find out the efficiency of research-based teaching in biology lessons at upper primary school. The next partial aim is the comparison of students' effectiveness during lessons with elements of exploration-based teaching (a.k.a. experimental group) and comparison of students during frontal teaching (a.k.a. inspecting group). The bachelor thesis deals with teaching methods which can be used during students' lessons at upper primary schools and concentrates on possibilities of research-based teaching. Three research-based tasks which focus on plants and their parts (root, stalk, leaf) are suggested in the thesis. The use of these suggested tasks was verified in author's own practical training in seventh grade at one of the primary schools. Individual tasks are formed and prepared in order to develop creativity, independence, sense of co-operating and exploring stated topics with others. These suggested themes can be used during biology lessons at upper primary schools. The results of efficiency of suggested research-based tasks are presented in the bachelor thesis.
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The possibilities of the Inquiry-based education in the Vertebrate Biology
JIRÁČKOVÁ, Bára
"The possibilities of the Inquiry-based education (IBE) in the Vertebrate Biology" is the Thesis, whose aim is to chart the possibilities of the teacher in the use of vertebrates in the common lesson. In view of the Laws No.246/1992Coll. and No.114/1992Coll. the possibilities how to use the vertebrates are very restricted. Even a common vertebrate-breeding in a class room is entirely excluded. The method of observation seems to be the most suitable one. The whole theoretical part of the Thesis deals with this method as well as the other methods and already existing tasks of IBE dealing with the vertebrates. There are three new complex tasks in the practical part of the Thesis: "Snapshot Serengeti get to know the fauna of the National Serengeti Park", "Birds in the Winter"and "Birds in the Winter - Excursion to zoo".
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Semiaquatic bugs as predators and prey and their use in natural history teaching
JANDA, Václav
The aim of this thesis is to create an overview of scientific findings about the prey and the predators of the representatives of infraorder Gerromorpha, their feeding habits and defence strategies against predators. Gerromorphans are adapted for life on the surface of various water bodies ranging from puddles to open ocean. Majority of water striders feed on insect fallen upon water surface, hatching larvae of aquatic insect or micro-crustacean. Gerromorphans locate their prey by sight and by sensory detection of ripples at water surface caused by prey. Gathering in schools turned out to be an efficient defence strategy against predators. Some species have compound eyes with specialized ommatidia which enable them to see prey on the surface as well as predator under surface. A proposal of the use of Gerromorpha in natural history teaching is part of this thesis. Gerromorphans are convenient for teaching of natural history thanks to the possibility of observation of piercing and sucking mouthparts and various food relations such as predation, cannibalism or kleptobiotic relation. Undemanding rearing of gerromorphans enables easy realization of experiments and observations under school conditions.
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Practical Cognition of Nature in Teaching in primary school
TVAROHOVÁ, Eliška
The Bachelor thesis reveals the extent of practical learning about nature in the teaching of biology in primary schools and the first stage of secondary schools. Depending on the individuality of each school can be concluded that the practical activities taking place at all schools but in different degrees of the scale and frequency. It was also found the variability in student?s interests in certain topics in biology and interest in developing their own skills in relation to practical activities in activating lessons.
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Anticipated knowledge from the ecology in textbooks of grammary school
VÁCHA, Robert
This bachelor thesis is divided on a theoretical and practical part. In the theoretical part it describes the general educational program - its definition and content. Especially it focuses on the educational field Biology and on a cross-cutting theme Nature environmental education. In the thesis is defined a notion textbook, there are described functions of a textbook in learning process and ways of analyzing textbooks. The theoretical part also deals with didactic tests. The practical part is devoted to analysis and comparison of selected series of textbooks. It presents a design of a simple test in the research of knowledge from the ecology at basic school students and it evaluates the results of the experimental pilot survey.
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The proposal of geological-biological teaching path around Mařský vrch near Vimperk
POKORNÁ, Lucie
The main aim of this thesis was to create a teaching path around Mařský vrch, which could serve as a supplement to teaching biology especially for primary schools and grammar schools (children of age 11 to 15). In this thesis, I focused on the processing characteristics of the area, didactical recommendation and the proposal of the path with various stops. Eleven stops were designed. Description and educational use for specific subjects, questions and challenges, or educational games to each of the stops were processed. Worksheets were created for some stops. Documentary photographs were made for all of the stops.
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Biology knowledge of pupils finishing their compulsory education.
BARTOŇOVÁ, Žaneta
This thesis deals with the knowledge testing of the natural history at pupils in 9th classes of primary and lower secondary schools by means of the didactic test which was created by students of Masaryk´s University in Brno (Kokošínská, Slavíčková) in 2009. Output knowledge of natural history was tested with 302 students (156 boys and 146 girls) in South Bohemia region (České Budějovice, Tábor, Soběslav). The comparison of the knowledge of the natural history was carried out at primary school leavers a graduates of lower secondary school cycle. The respondents from secondary school showed better knowledge than pupils of the natural history of the 9th classes of the primary school. The pupils achieve the highest knowledge in the field of human biology, the lowest one in the field of inanimate nature. The results of the thesis were compared with the results of the survey in primary and lower secondary schools in Brno (2009) and Central Bohemia Region (2009, 2011). The results were in all tested regions comparable and a statistically significant difference was not proved.
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Human Biology teaching portfolio for education subject Biology
HLASOVÁ, Zuzana
The aim of the thesis is to create a teaching portfolio with special attention to the educational content of Human Biology. Instructional manuals are created for teaching natural science at primary school and are focused on selected systems in Biology of the human being, which are: muscle system, breathing system, circulation system, digest system, sensuous system, and a chapter about nourishment. Regarding the present?day School educational programmes the teachers themselves choose the year in which they would teach the educational topics of Biology of the human being. The portfolio is drafted as the methodical aid for teachers and instructional activities for pupils that lead to improvement of teaching methods and better understanding particular terms and relations between the structure and function of human body. The educational portfolio consists of working sheets, practical tasks and tests that help to vary teaching methods and add a lot of matters of interest, physiology experiments and testing to the classical approach to teaching Human Biology.
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