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Trees in Prague 9 - Černý Most and their Protection - Environmental Education Program for Pupils of Lower Secondary School
Lacinová, Barbora ; Svobodová, Silvie (advisor) ; Skýbová, Jana (referee)
The bachelor's thesis deals with the design of trees around the school and their protection. The aim of the work is to create a teaching program which goal is to actively engage and support students' interest in the process of learning about the given topic. The program was designed for the pupils of the 2nd level of elementary school and it was implemented at the locality of Praha 9 Černý Most. The thesis alone is divided into 2 parts. Theoretical part is dedicated mostly to teaching at the 2nd level of elementary school related to the given topic. First chapter is focused on the subject biology, more specifically on the botany part and on the environmental education. Simultaneously there is defined environmental educational program including its applied form and methods of work. In the second part of the thesis is the topic of trees and the consequences of their decrease described more complexly. Furthermore, there is given space to presentation of some chosen trees in Czech Republic and their ecology, meaning and protection. Practical part is dedicated to introduction of the locality of Černý Most and characteristic of the Generála Janouška elementary school. At the end there is introduction of the educational program, which was verified in practice, evaluated and based on the feedback modified....
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Nature trails and their use in environmental education
Merglová, Markéta ; Thorovská, Alena (advisor) ; Zvírotský, Michal (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the concept of nature trails and their use in environment al education. In the theoretical part, I will focus primarily on the general characteristic, which appears similarly in publications. Above all, it is the basic definition of nature trails, types of nature trails, rules for creating information panels and what each nature trail should contain. F urthermore, the contribution and function of nature trails as described in printed, documented literature will appear in the thesis. Definition of the contribution of nature trails to environmental education in comparison with o ther environmental education tools according to the basic literature on nature trails. Furthermore, I will present how environmental Education (EEA) is described in the St ate EEA Programme and in the Methodological Instruction of the Ministry of Education, Yout h and Sports to provide environmental education at secondary schools, secondary vocational s chools or vocational schools, which will provide illustrative instructions on how to implement environmental education at these schools and how it is embedded in the school's documents. I will base it mainly on the online portal, specifically on atre.cz and mzp.cz. In the empirical, practical part, I will focus on the results of the...
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Urban After-School Environmental Education Programs in the USA
SOBOLOVÁ, Kristýna
The thesis deals with environmental education programs in cities and towns of the USA. In the introductory part, it describes the idea and starting points of environmental education in the Czech Republic and the United States of America. It briefly describes environmental education in formal and non-formal education. It characterizes the urban environment and its determinants in relation to the offer of leisure programs. In the second part, it deals with six selected programs that were implemented in the USA between 2011 and 2021. It describes these programs and presents their evaluation from the perspective of participants and organizers. In the final part, it deals with the analysis of the evaluation of programmes, and it also mentions which one it sees as an inspirational example of good practice for urban environmental education programmes in the Czech Republic.
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The image of environmental thinking in the life of the parish and the stimuli for its development
CHMARSKÁ, Zuzana
The bachelor thesis deals with the environmental thinking in the life of parish and the stimuli for its development. The theoretic part defines basic concepts related to the issue of environmental thinking and the parish and defines their mutual relationship. It briefly describes the ecological crisis and the call for ecological conversion from public, political and church initiatives. The practical part presents the quantitative research using the method of questionnaire survey. The aim of this research was to elucidate the practical reflections of environmental thinking in the parish's lives. The main focus of the bachelor thesis was to find how much environmental thinking appears in the life of the parish and describe in which areas it appears most often and which negative factors have the greatest impact on it.
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Požadavky podniků na odbornost studentů týkající se environmentálních znalostí a nabídka nových odborníků na trhu práce - příklad Jihočeského kraje
BUCHTELE, Roman
The subject of the presented dissertation thesis is a description of the position of graduates and workers with environmental knowledge in the labour market, which is derived from environmental education at universities and the demands of companies for a new type of employees with an overlap into environmental contexts. The main objectives of the thesis aimed to determine the impact of teaching environmental and sustainable development topics and the influence of students' pro-environmental attitudes on their future career decisions. A further aim of the thesis was to determine the extent to which elements of the green economy are incorporated into corporate strategies, and whether a change in corporate strategy affects their demand for new environmental qualifications of the workforce. In other words, whether there is a demand for new types of professionals with an overlap into environmental contexts. The main research is divided into two parts and the research methods are based on both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The basis of the quantitative research represents a questionnaire survey at the level of university students studying fields with an environmental focus. The qualitative research is applied among businesses. The respondents are managers and other representatives of enterprises that can be classified as green economy. The method used for the qualitative research is Grounded Theory.
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Postoje studentů SOŠ k aktuálním environmentálním problémům
Dostálová, Marie
My thesis focuses on current environmental attitudes of secondary medical schools´ students. Its aim is to explore these attitudes through questionnaire surveys. The thesis is divided into a theoretical part and a practical one, the former describing environmental education in all the three sections of the school system (including preschool education), and the latter analysing secondary students´ questionnaires. The thesis covers specifics and problems that the environmental education faces within the Czech traditional school system, and it also maps items such as environmental management, legislation, impacts and aspects. Last but not least, the theoretical part investigates the environment, its pollution, its protection and its fundamental problems. Finally, the theoretical part describes environmental attitudes and the behaviour interconnected with them. The practical part deals with the survey itself, using the research method of an online questionnaire, divided into five sections, which as a whole answers the key reasearch question. The practical part is complemented by tips and recommendations for teachers.
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Year-round project for preschool children - Water changes
KODÝTEK, Miroslav
The bachelor thesis deals with the creation and implementation of a year-round project for preschool children. The project focuses on water transformation during the year. Water becomes known to children through environmental education. The theoretical part explains the term environmental education in the context of preschool education. By defining examples of the relationships between the components of living and inanimate nature, the work deals in detail with information on the topic of water, its various forms, changes and uses. The practical part contains suggestions of suitable activities and activities used to understand the relationship to nature, especially water during the ten thematic weeks, when each month in a given school year children discuss one of the thematic weeks (solid state of water, liquid state of water, gaseous state of water, utility water, waste water, water origin, water cycle). During the weeks, the children gained basic knowledge about nature, especially about water, and their positive attitude towards nature in their surroundings was deepened. The children understood that there would be no life without water.
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The educational programme oriented to selected ecosystems in kindergarten
POLEDNOVÁ, Lenka
This Bachelor thesis focuses on environmental education. In the theoretical part it defines environmental education and its main objectives, the reasons for its inclusion in preschool education and its relation to the Framework Education Programme for Preschool Education. In addition, it names methods suitable for its implementation in kindergarten. In the practical part, it presents the developed educational offer focused on the selected ecosystem. In selecting the activities included in the curriculum, it emphasises methods of direct nature study, such as observation and simple experimentation, manipulation of natural materials or sensory perception. At the same time, it focuses on the children's experience and the experience they gain through direct contact with nature and spontaneous play in it. After the implementation of the teaching programme, it then evaluates the proposed topics and the chosen methods on the basis of the evaluated interviews and the ongoing observation of the children.
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