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Geocaching as a Leisure Time Activity for Parents and Their Preschool-Aged Children
JEZDINSKÁ, Simona
The bachelor thesis focuses on geocaching as a physically active, free-time activity of parents and their pre-school children. The theoretical part deals with the definition of free time, with free-time activities of pre-school children, and potential dangers of spending free time in a passive way. Furthermore, it discusses the possibility of the use of geocaching within environmental education in Czech nursery schools and it elaborates on geocaching as a free-time activity for parents and their children. In the practical part of the thesis, parents are interviewed about how much time they spend with thier children, as well as what free time activities they actually do with them, and if they do geocaching with them at all. An important part of the thesis is a submission of a new, thematic geocache for pre-school children and their parents. Moreover, the 'game' is practically implemented in the lesson plan in a nursery school Preslova v Českých Budějovicích.
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Application of Geomagnetic Data and Solar Physics for Education of Sciences in Secondary School
BAYER, Tomáš
This docement summarizes current geophysiscs and solar physics knowledge collection and applies it in grammar school education. Document explains significance of Earth geomagnetic field for whole biota and their evolution and includes current knowledge of geophysics and solar physics to the Programme for Secondary General Education (Grammar Schools). The document introduces actual findings of solar physics and geophysics (especially geomagnetism) to the educational area Man and Nature containing synthetic education of biology and geosciences. The main method of this document is comparison and explanation of solar physics satellite data, explanation of solar disc records and solar wind time series. This data have been compared by Czech national Geomagnetic observatory (IAGA code BDV) variograms and enables pupils to process satellite and observatory real-time data.
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Nature as an Educational Environment for Pre-school Children
RIEDLOVÁ, Ivana
This bachelor thesis deals with nature as a potential educational environment for pre-school children. The theoretical part of the thesis focuses on curricular documents related to the legislation governing preschool education in the Czech Republic; it describes the development of a pre-school child, how he/she forms his/her relationship to nature and it also deals with forest school education and forest kindergartens. The practical part of the thesis focuses on the kinds of parents who enroll their children in forest kindergartens, their motives to use this form of alternative preschool education and on their level of satisfaction with having their children educated in a natural environment. At the same time, this part offers assistance to other parents in deciding where they should enroll their preschool child.
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Proposal for environmental education for children of primary school age (with practical demonstration of teaching the local region Písek)
BENEŠOVÁ, Gabriela
The focus of this thesis is developing the design educational material dealing with the possibilities of cross-cutting theme, "Environmental Education". The educational material that has been designed on the basis of theoretical and practical knowledge based on literature search, discussions with experienced experts can be useful in school and extracurricular education of a child under school age through didactic guides for teachers with worksheets. The material for teaching is made disciples answered complexity and usability for their age. The theoretical part focuses on defining the area of interest, comparison of school education systems at three elementary schools, and finally discussions, analysis of the literature and didactic application in the context of creating teaching material.
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The development of art creativity of preschool children with overlap in environmental education
JANDOVÁ, Marie
The aim of the bachelor thesis is a development of pre-school children's creativity with an overlap into environmental education. The theoretical part contains a brief view of environmental and art education resources of the pre-school age; furthermore it contains the characteristics of the development of pre-school children and states the following terms: creativity, environmental education, ecological education and the characteristics of the frame education program for pre-school environmental education. The practical part contains lessons related to four seasons of the year: "Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer". Motivational texts to alt the art topics are suggested and practiced in every section. These are simple poems, songs, riddles or fairy-tales regarding the age of the children. The natural materials are gathered during the stay in countryside. Other used supplies were intended into a dumping place. The art techniques of the particular topics are suggested with regard to the age of the children so that they could help develop creativity and children's behaviour to the nature as a whole.
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Environmental education as a part of ethics education
HOUDKOVÁ, Isabela
The work deals with environmental and ethical education, their development and position in the Czech curriculum documents. It focuses on the relationship of education to environmental care and ethical education, specifically on the ratio of factual data and ethical values in the concept of environmental education in the Czech elementary education. It characterizes ways of professional training of pedagogical workers in environmental education, education and awareness, possibilities of further education of environmental education coordinators and the interest in this topic from the side of Czech schools.
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Educational programs supporting relationship between children and animals
BOŽKOVÁ, Michaela
The main point of this thesis is to prepare appropriate activities, which help children to form a positive relation with animals and create methodical sheets with directions, suggestions, descriptions and pictures which follow the educational programs issued by "Český nadační fond pro vydru." The theoretical part describes the common relation between children, animals and nature. The thesis also considers the environmental education methods and its elements employed in nursery schooling. The thesis also describes the influence of animals on children development, related dangers and difficulties that should be avoided.
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Environmental Experiments at Nursery School
ANDĚLOVÁ, Romana
A bachelor thesis Environmental experiments in kindergarten discusses the issues of experiment tried in kindergarten. It processes information about the use of this method in kindergarten, about its use in the point of terms view, the methodological procedure, suitability for preschool age, material equipment and security, all in the form of literary research. A part of the work is a list of selected experiments suitable for preschoolers and worksheets created for each specific test.
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The Use of Regional History of Vltavotynsko in History Lessons. Workbook with Regional Historical Topics
PINTNEROVÁ, Anna
The diploma thesis The Use of Regional History of Vltavotynsko in History Lessons. Workbook with Regional Historical Topics is a contribution to the methodology of history lessons. It defends the importance of regional and environmental education as well as education for relationship to cultural-historical heritage in lessons of history, especially at upper primary schools. The mentioned aspects of history education are observed in particular chosen educational documents, which determined the form of education in the 1990s and then also the final product of this reform - the Framework Educational Programmefor primary education. The main output of the thesis is a textbook about the regional history of Vltavotynsko called People from the River, which reflects the learned knowledge. The textbook does not only contain exercises typical for a workbook, but it also includes other texts and visual materials which present the basic historical development in the micro-region to pupils in an attractive way and they are a valuable contribution to pupil's environmental education, too.
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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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