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Worksheets for a field trip to the periodic table of elements at the Faculty of Science, Charles University
Kyzek, Tomáš ; Teplý, Pavel (advisor) ; Míka, Luděk (referee)
The thesis describes a relation of the periodic table of elements, field trips and worksheets to chemistry education. Specifically the thesis is focused on a field trip to an exposition The periodic table of elements at the Faculty of Science, Charles University. Theoretical part of the thesis analyses the history of the periodic table of elements, summary of curricular documents and textbooks for elementary schools and grammar schools, afterwards relation of an field trip to students' learning and lastly the meaning of worksheets and A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. The methodology covers gathering feedbacks, creating tasks, their goals and solution. The discussion about choosing and changings tasks compared to the original worksheet are described in the practical part of the thesis. Four versions of worksheets were created each containing 10 tasks. All versions of worksheets, a version for elementary schools with a lecturer, a version for secondary schools with a lecturer, a version for elementary schools without a lecturer, a version for secondary schools without a lecturer.
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Air quality as a topic for complex learning tasks in chemistry education
Víšková, Vanesa ; Janoušková, Svatava (advisor) ; Teplý, Pavel (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on creating learning tasks, including determining their difficulty levels. The aim of the thesis is to contribute to expanding the portfolio of educational materials, specifically tasks at the grammar school level, to develop students' scientific literacy. The thesis presents three developed complex learning tasks, which were evaluated by a focus group for cognitive difficulty, content adequacy, and attractiveness. The results indicate that most tasks are suitable for high school education. The thesis also includes a discussion on the importance of scientific literacy in the context of PISA study and its situation among students in the Czech Republic. Furthermore, the thesis analyzes the Framework Educational Programme for Gymnasiums (RVP G) regarding the topic of air quality and provides theoretical foundations for creating complex learning tasks. The thesis also contributes to linking chemistry education with the cross-curricular theme of environmental education, as outlined in the RVP G. Key Words Air quality, learning tasks, PISA survey, chemistry education.
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USB-microscope and its possibilities for chemistry and geology education
Kopecký, Ondřej ; Šmejkal, Petr (advisor) ; Teplý, Pavel (referee)
Microscopes are a common tool in science education, used to demonstrate phenomena that are not visible to the naked eye. They are most commonly encountered in the teaching of biology, but could also be used in the teaching of other science subjects, such as geology or chemistry. In addition to microscopes, binoculars can also be used in teaching. One such alternative for binoculars is the USB-microscope, which has been expanding in recent years beyond its primary use in electrical engineering. It appears that the USB-microscope could be a suitable teaching tool. However, its wider use is inhibited by inexperience of teachers and students, as well as by the lack of teaching and materials that could effectively utilise the USB-microscope. Consequently, the objective of this study was to select and optimise experiments that are suitable for education and, at the same time, can utilise the USB-microscope to advantage in their presentation. Additionally, the objective was to create worksheets and supplementary materials for educators to facilitate the selected experiments. To achieve this, ten experiments were selected and optimized for both teaching and laboratory work with the USB-microscope. The appropriate supplementary materials, including worksheets, were then developed for these experiments. The...
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Didactic game chemical Battleships in chemistry
Mitevová, Kristýna ; Teplý, Pavel (advisor) ; Petrželová, Simona (referee)
This bachelor's thesis is focused on the adaptation of the chemical Battleships game and its use in the teaching of chemistry in elementary schools and upper years of multi-year gymnasiums. The theoretical part of the thesis focuses on the inclusion of the topic Periodic table of elements in curriculum documents and textbooks. Furthermore, in the theoretical part, a didactic game is defined as one of the activating methods, and in the conclusion, the concept of gamification and its use in teaching is defined. The practical part primarily includes a search of curricular documents and textbooks for elementary schools and higher years of multi-year grammar schools, which is followed by a search of games with the theme of PTP, which are found in theses and on freely available websites. The game Chemical Battleships, which uses PTP as a playing field, was adopted and modified from the conducted research. As part of the modification, Chance questions were added to the game, which aim to review the general chemistry curriculum. The game was pilot tested on 1st year students at the Prague grammar school with a very positive response.
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Integration of environmental education topics into chemistry edcuation - water
Batoušková, Anna ; Janoušková, Svatava (advisor) ; Teplý, Pavel (referee)
This bachelor's thesis brings teaching tasks for secondary school students that could serve as teaching material for chemistry classes. The tasks link chemical topics related to water and its pollution with the cross-cutting topic of Environmental Education. The teaching tasks aim to develop students' scientific literacy. The inspiration for the development of the teaching tasks was the comprehensive tasks of the international survey PISA (Programme for International Students Assessment). The tasks were tested on grammar school students, who provided feedback concerning the difficulty of individual tasks or subtasks and also with regard to familiarity with the topic and its attractiveness. The most difficult tasks for the students were those working with calculations. The least challenging tasks were those based on searching for information in text or graphs and tables. Students rated the topics of the tasks as exciting and necessary. Key Words scientific literacy, learning tasks, environmental education, water, chemistry
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Selected laboratory methods in chemistry teaching: video tutorials
Cosentino, Nikola ; Teplý, Pavel (advisor) ; Stratilová Urválková, Eva (referee)
The bachelor's thesis focuses on the teaching of laboratory methods at primary and secondary schools and its support with educational videos. A comparison of framework education programs and school education programs revealed a too general concept and little emphasis on laboratory teaching and the development of laboratory skills in primary and secondary education. A questionnaire survey among chemistry teachers helped us to define the basic laboratory methods taught. Information from the questionnaire survey was used in the creation of videos, specifically: work with kahan, filtration and crystallization. The created videos were subjected to feedback using a second questionnaire survey, on the basis of which the final editing of the videos took place.
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Coordination chemistry education at secondary level schools
Navrátilová, Hana ; Míka, Luděk (advisor) ; Teplý, Pavel (referee)
1 Abstract This thesis deals with the analysis of teaching coordination chemistry at secondary schools. Coordination chemistry serves as a bridge between inorganic and organic chemistry, expands fundamental concepts and encourages students to think logically. Therefore, it has great importance in continuous chemistry education. The work examines the diversity of teaching methods and explains the disadvantages of teaching coordination chemistry, particularly in terms of nomenclature. It explains why this area is important for chemists. The study analyses the teaching of coordination chemistry in university teacher programs, in school educational programs, in model questions for admission exams for chemically-oriented programs in Prague, and lastly, it addresses the approach to coordination chemistry in secondary school textbooks. The aim of this work is to highlight the inconsistency of school educational programs in the teaching of coordination chemistry, why the teaching of coordination chemistry is limited to nomenclature, and the reasons behind it. Keywords coordination chemistry, school curriculum, educational program, chemistry education, secondary school.
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Analysis of Chemistry tests used in the admission procedure at the Faculty of Science, Charles University
Šrámek, Martin ; Teplá, Milada (advisor) ; Teplý, Pavel (referee) ; Kričfaluši, Dana (referee)
This thesis focuses on the prediction of academic success and item analysis of chemistry knowledge tests used in the admission procedure at the Faculty of Science, Charles University between 2016 and 2019. The first part of the thesis focuses on the possibilities of academic success prediction (earning a bachelor's degree within 4 years) based on various factors: (i) success rate in the admission procedure, (ii) study index (modified average of marks), (iii) success rate in each part of admission procedure, (iv) passing exams in selected mandatory subjects for students of Chemistry study programme, eventually (v) based on obtained marks in selected subjects (as in (iv)). Furthermore, a prediction of entering Year 2 was also completed for three of these factors (i, iii and iv). The sample consists of 1,780 applicants for Chemistry study programmes. The results of the analysis proved a medium effect on success in the admission procedure on entering Year 2 (d = 0.52) and a large effect on academic success (d = 0.67). By additional comparison of predictive ability of knowledge tests (Maths, Biology, Chemistry) we proved that the Chemistry test has a greater prediction ability compared to the others - low effect on entering Year (d = 0.22), but medium on academic success (d = 0.40). Additionally, we...
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Media education in chemistry teaching
Matějčková, Veronika ; Teplý, Pavel (advisor) ; Janoušková, Svatava (referee)
This thesis deals with the integration of media education into chemistry teaching. The thesis is divided in two parts. The first part develops media education as a tool to obtain media literacy, didactics approach in teaching of media education and methods used in those teachings. Undisputable part of the first part of this thesis is the position of media education in curricular documents in the Czech Republic and investigation of a real state of media education teachings at Czech primary and secondary schools. The results of the investigation showed that the skill of media literacy of students in the Czech Republic is rather below average. The investigation also showed that the most common form of implementation of media education teaching is integration into other educational areas. Second part of the thesis contains a questionnaire among teachers of science subjects focused on integration of media education and educational materials which were prepared after evaluation of first part of the thesis, and which are a practical demonstration of a relationship between media education and chemistry subject. The created teaching materials contain theoretical starting points for the given topic of media education, methodological instructions for teachers and worksheets, teaching presentations or other...
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Outdoor educational game on separation methods for lower secondary school students
Kydalová, Radka ; Stratilová Urválková, Eva (advisor) ; Teplý, Pavel (referee)
The Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 had a particularly severe impact on teaching in all types of schools, especially in the Czech Republic. Science lessons could not actively develop the practical skills of pupils, who spent an enormous part of the day with online learning and online assignments. The aim of the diploma thesis was to create an outdoor science activity that can be carried out within the lower secondary science education, but also out-of-school (extracurricular) activities, e.g. in leisure groups, summer camps or even family-camp holidays. The game "Lahvius is looking for apprentices!" was created for teaching separation methods within lower secondary education. The game consists of 15 lists/control points, that participants meet on their way in terrain. At the last stop, participants prepare an extract and filtrate from plants they find in the surroundings. The guide (teacher) prepares the trail according to the Teachers guide, which is attached to this thesis. During the practical activity, it is recommended to guide the participants effectively and give them feedback on their work. The game was tested twice: a pilot version was tested at two summer camps, and a modified version was tested with pupils of two 7th grades of a Prague basic school. The participants filled in a short...
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