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Bečovská Botanical Garden as a Space for Education of Nursery Schools Children and Pupils of Elementary Schools
Marešová, Renata ; Andreska, Jan (advisor) ; Hanel, Lubomír (referee)
TITLE: The Bečovská Botanical Garden as a Space for Education of Nursery Schools Children and Pupils of Elementary Schools ABSTRACT: The thesis titled The Bečovská Botanical Garden as a Space for Education of Nursery Schools Children and Pupils of Elementary Schools focuses on the use of this place for various forms of teaching and learning. I focused on the opportunity for tours and educational programs for natural history and botany in elementary school and kindergarten in the natural environment of the beautiful West Bohemian town in the restored botanical garden. In this work was carried out a short questionnaire survey amongst teachers who have visited Bečov's botanical garden with their students. Based on the processing of the questionnaire survey, I found out what would be appropriate to add to the educational tutorials and I created a worksheet and suggested activities that could be incorporated into various educational programs. I found out what options to various naturalistic activities the Bečov's botanical garden provides, where the teachers and students who have visited it are from, whether the teachers are satisfied with its teaching programs and whether the visit helped to create or consolidate respect for nature (for plants, animals, forests, lakes, meadow) and understanding the study that...
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Toxic plants in teaching of biology at secondary schools
Riegelová, Marta ; Rajsiglová, Jiřina (advisor) ; Chlebounová, Irena (referee)
This diploma thesis is dedicated to teaching botany, and is focused namely on lessons concerning toxic plants. The first part deals with creating of worksheets for secondary school students for field trip into Botanic Garden of Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. The second part compares effectiveness of classical lesson and the field trip. Students of the first grades from four secondary schools (grammar schools) were divided into two groups.The first group was taught by classic conventional teaching in classroom (control group) and the second group (experimental) was taken for the field trip to the Botanic Garden of Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. The effectiveness of education was measured by means of a knowledge test before the lesson (pre-test) and after it (post-test). Level of knowledge increased in experimental groups and control groups, however, the difference between individual groups was not significant. Key words: toxic plants, botanical garden, field trips, worksheets, knowledge testing
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The Using of expositions of the Botanical garden of Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague - Aquatic and marsh plants
Malcová, Kateřina ; Rajsiglová, Jiřina (advisor) ; Mikešová, Kateřina (referee)
Botanical gardens perform a wide variety of functions, from which one of the most important is an educational function. They provide to visitors a large range of services such as guided tours, a variety of educational programs, worksheets etc. The same applies to the Botanical garden of Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. The main aim of the thesis was to prepare worksheets concerning expositions of aquatic and marsh plants in already mentioned botanical garden, verify them on students and adjust them to final forms. The results of the thesis are two different versions (spring and autumn) of the worksheets as well as author's solution and methodological manual for teachers. Within the thesis I also implemented the questionnaire survey where I dealt with the issue of teaching the theme of aquatic and marsh plants at Czech grammar schools and examined the attitude of teachers to field trips during botany teaching. Key words: botanical garden, worksheet, aquatic and marsh plants, field trip, questionnaire
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Flora of Central Europe - the use of expositions of the botanical garden of Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague
Riegelová, Marta ; Rajsiglová, Jiřina (advisor) ; Mikešová, Kateřina (referee)
This bachelor work is dedicated to utilization of an exposition flora of Central Europe botanical garden of Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague for teaching biology. The work is focused especially on lessons of vascular plants - categorisation of this theme in curriculum of chosen countries of Central Europe (the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Poland), and curriculum of Great Britain for comparison. The work also deals with textbooks for elementary schools and grammar schools which - before the excursion itself - should present to pupils some significant plant species and characteristics of families. Keywords: Flora of Central Europe, field trips, botanical garden, textbook of botany, curriculum
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Use of Botanical Garden of faculty of science Charles University in Prague in teaching biology and natural history
Nováková, Eliška ; Rajsiglová, Jiřina (advisor) ; Dvořáková, Radka (referee)
This diploma thesis is focusing on use of Botanical garden of Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague by teachers as a destination for class field trips. Teachers use this garden with different objectives and different intensity. This diploma thesis provides a summary of this using by the processing of the survey, which took place in elementary school teachers and high school teachers. This work is testing the following hypotheses: 1. Teachers with length of practice above twenty years use the field trip less than teachers with length of practice under twenty years. 2. Men use guided tours more than women. 3. High school teachers use geopark for tour more than elementary school teachers. 4. Teachers with length of practice above twenty years visit gardens other than Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague and the Botanical Garden in Prague Troja less than teachers with length of practice under twenty years. The thesis summarizes basic information about the field trip as an organizational form. The thesis also deals with the Botanical Garden of faculty of science Charles University in Prague, its collections, history, and possibilities of using in schools.
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Selected Botanical Gardens and Arboretums of Secondary Schools in the Czech Republic and Its Use in Teaching
Smáhová, Monika ; Skýbová, Jana (advisor) ; Hrouda, Lubomír (referee)
This thesis deals with three selected school botanical gardens and two school arboretums in the Czech Republic. For each of the five selected units are provided basic informations, history, some of cultivated plant species, schedule of events and use in teaching. The next part of the thesis contains suggestions on the use of The Botanical Garden in Rakovník in teaching. Botanical gardens and arboretums are very important and interesting places. Their basic function is educational and aesthetic. It is very important that teachers perceive the need to teach biology partly in nature and not only in the classroom. Key words: botanical garden, arboretum, relationship to the environment, educational process
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Practical use of Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science Charles University in Prague for Education of Lower Grades of Primary School
Tchoruk, Monika ; Skýbová, Jana (advisor) ; Jančaříková, Kateřina (referee)
The theme of this diploma thesis is Practical use of the Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague for Education of Lower Grades of Primary Schools. The main purpose is to chart current status of a theme of botanical garden in curricular documents, namely The Framework Educational Programme for Basic Education and School Educational Programmes of chosen elementary schools located in Prague 2. Further, the presence of this theme is explored in the sample of schoolbooks for the 4th and the 5th grades of elementary schools. There is a questionnaire survey realized among teachers of the 4th and the 5th grades in the schools listed above. The aim is to find out, how much the Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague is used for practical education. The results are shown in charts and graphs. The readiness of this botanical garden for practical education of lower grades pupils is found out by an interview with its vice-director. The next part of thesis contains planning and realizing a lesson with the 5th grade pupils. The lesson demonstrates a possibility of more frequent practical education in the botanical garden. Afterwards, the possibilities of using this particular visit of the botanical garden are analysed in relation to Natural Science...
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Botanical garden of Czech Republic selected for teaching process
Nováková, Eliška ; Rajsiglová, Jiřina (advisor) ; Mourek, Jan (referee)
Presented thesis is focused on selected botanical gardens in the Czech Republic and their benefits for schools and school teaching. Today, botanical gardens are frequently visited for educational purposes and also for relaxation of people. It is important that teachers know that teaching is not possible to realize only in the school environment. Botanical gardens are an ideal place to make practical biological excursions. According to FEP, it is necessary to teach botany in school. It is important that students know how the plant looks, in which community plant lives and which benefits it has for humans. The expected outcomes mentioned above are important and botanical gardens help with their fulfilling. In my thesis I describe the possibilities that are offered and realized by botanical gardens for school excursions.
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Návrh pěstebních opatření a management péče v modelovém objektu
Petríková, Veronika
This graduation thesis deals with floricultural measures and maintenance management for the model object. The area near city Stupava in ownership of the Botanical Garden of the Comenius University was chosen a model object. In this area, planting of a new botanical garden had begun in the past. But this intention had not been implemented. Today, the area is rented and a farm Príroda is being conducted here. In this work, the natural conditions, historical progress and current state of the object were assessed. The floricultural measures were drafted according to the tree inventory and the tree classification, which reflect the current state of the wood species in the area. The work includes description of operational and compositional relations, growing elements, constructional and technical elements. It describes current maintenance measures and deals with the proposal for maintenance management.
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History of Botanic Gardens in Relation to the Influence of Population Planning on the Environment
Šuglová, Darina
The process of developing botanical gardens and buildings is done in liaison with the state of knowledge in the fields of natural sciences. Since the beginning of the history of civilized society people protected themselves against natural influences by the formation of appropriate conditions in artificial environment of buildings. With the development of civilization, the ratio of natural and man-made environment is changing and protection of nature from human influence is getting increasing importance. In this context, there is an increasingly important role in scientific knowledge of nature. The content of the paper is the mapping degree of fytosfera interventions in different historical stages, the developing of botanical gardens.
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