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Selected Plants of the Rose Family (Rosaceae) and their use within Teaching of Biology
Kučerová, Jana ; Skýbová, Jana (advisor) ; Novotný, Petr (referee)
Selected Plants of the Rose Family (Rosaceae) and their use within Teaching of Biology The main topic of this bachelor thesis are plants of the Rose Family (Rosaceae).The thesis is divided into several parts. Firstly the general characteristics of the family are introduced. At the following part there is analysis of textbooks for elementary and secondary schools in terms of representation of plants from Rose Family (Rosaceae), whose purpose was to determine what information the reader will learn about the family and its individual representatives from the textbooks mentioned. Plants, herbs and woody species which occur in the textbooks the most are further characterized in details. There is their description, information about expansion, application in medicine, there are stated some interesting points from history, but also explanation of their educational use in teaching. The work is complemented by suggestions for laboratory exercises and worksheets for pupils of elementary schools and students of secondary schools. Key Words: Rose family (Rosaceae), Analysis of textbooks, individual representatives of Rose Family, didactical topics
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Interdisciplinary relation between cartography and mathematics in the teaching at high school
Leipertová, Gabriela ; Netrdová, Pavlína (advisor) ; Marada, Miroslav (referee)
LEIPERTOVÁ, G. (2012): Interdisciplinary relation between cartography and mathematics in the teaching at high school. Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Charles University in Prague. The present diploma thesis analyses interdisciplinary relations between cartography and mathematics on three levels: on the level of intended curriculum, on the level of implemented curriculum and on the level of attained curriculum. On the level of the intended curriculum, project documents such as the Framework Educational Programme for High Schools and the School Educational Programmes of selected high schools are especially studied. The content analysis of selected textbooks of geography evaluates relations between cartography and mathematics on the basis of occurrence and (quality of) explication of required subject matters, amount of examples, illustrations and charts. Moreover, selected chapters of cartography, in which mathematical skills are applied, are elaborated in detail. On the level of the implemented curriculum, the real state of teaching of these interdisciplinary relations at selected high schools is evaluated through questionnaires for teachers of geography and of mathematics. On the level of the attained curriculum, the ability of pupils to combine knowledge of cartography and...
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Practical exercises using the theme of tropical and subtropical fruits in teaching
Dvořáková, Šárka ; Skýbová, Jana (advisor) ; Pavlasová, Lenka (referee)
The name of the thesis: Practical exercises using the theme of tropical and subtropical fruits in teaching natural history and biology describe the basic issue that the following text is devoted to. This thesis is connected to my bachelor thesis, "Tropical Fruit in Natural History and Biology Textbooks," defended in 2010. The main objectives of the thesis was to complete the contentual analysis of natural history and biology textbooks for the 2nd degree of primary schools, lower grades of grammar schools, and secondary schools. I focused on the issue of the incorrect inclusion of certain plants in chapters for tropical and subtropical fruits. Based on the total contentual analysis of textbooks, I have chosen the processing of practical exercises with the theme of tropical and subtropical fruits as the main objective. Based on the evaluation of the questionnaire, which served as a basis for practical exercises, in which teachers of natural history and biology were addressed, I was focused primarily on lab exercises, worsheets, proposals for project days, didactic games, and excursion worksheets, when creating the practical exercises. The subsequent objective was to verify one laboratory exercise in teaching. The result of this thesis is not only a brief review of natural history and biology...
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Teaching zoology in high schools, and its bearing upon formation of evolutionary thought
Kuchová-Breburdová, Hana ; Růžková, Ivana (referee) ; Roček, Zbyněk (advisor)
My thesis deals with the study of conditions that should shape the evolution of thinking of future college students. It's aim is to determine whether zoological knowledge gained by studying at secondary schools (especially with regard to their choice of a teaching method) is a sufficient basis for adopting an evolutionary way of thinking. For this thesis is questionnaire (test) for students of two selected state schools. I had tried to formulate the questinons in such a way that the students were forced to express their own opinions and knowledge, not just learned facts of the subject matters. Questions were placed in a special order. Some were "hidden" focused on the causes and principles of evolution, others slightly diverted students' attention, especially from the didactic point of view, so that students would not understand the exact intent of this questionnaire. The aim was to determine to what extent the ideas of students approximate to a generally accepted definition of evolution. The results were compared with similar studies. Keywords: evolution, definition of evolution, generally accepted evolution, analysis of textbooks, questionnaire, U Libeňského zámku grammar school, Litoměřická grammar school l, 4th grade students
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The impact of the cartographic method on students' map skills level
Havelková, Lenka
The presented diploma thesis focuses on the map skills' problematic, which is currently becoming widespread in the Czech research environment. In contrast to the previous empirical studies, this thesis is devoted to the thematic map skills and their level of development among students of grammar schools and geographically oriented branches of university studies. Due to the significant differences between used cartographic methods of visualization on thematic maps the main aim of this diploma thesis is to identify and explain used cartographic method's influence on the level of these important skills. To achieve this aim, it was necessary to focus on different parts of the curriculum (intended, implemented, learned) and to use several scientific methods because this topic hasn't been well established yet and therefore only few theoretical and empirical studies dealt with this specific issue. Firstly, the review of literature focused on thematic cartography, map skills and on identifying their level of development among students was done. Due to the lack of specialized resources the model of thematic map skills was created. This specific model was further used during didactic test's designing and also for its results' interpretation. Similarly for the creation of appropriate didactic test -...
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The Importance and the Analysis of Textbooks for Teaching Accounting in the Secondary Technical School
Fialová, Jana ; Rotport, Miloslav (advisor) ; Vomáčková, Hana (referee) ; Kovanicová, Dana (referee)
This thesis deals with the analysis of accounting textbooks for secondary schools. The main aim of this thesis is to analyze three Czech, three Slovak and five Austrian textbooks on the basis of selected evaluation criteria. The subject of the analysis was to assess the didactic aspects, text difficulty and content textual analysis. All the assessed textbooks are currently widely used for teaching accounting at comparable types of secondary technical school finished by graduation exams: business academies in the Czech and the Slovak Republic and Handelsakademie in Austria. The comparison of the results is an integral part of the research. The secondary aim was to give recommendations to the contemporary authors of accounting textbooks.
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Pedagogical Technique in the Grammar of Noun Declension in German as a Foreign Language
JÁNSKÁ, Veronika
This work is focused on a mediation of grammar in teaching of the German language in primary schools. The main attention is paid to the declension of nouns. I chose for the comparison two completely different outlined textbooks. In view of the fact, that still quite a large number of primary schools teaches according to the textbook "Heute haben wir Deutsch", I decided to confront this textbook with its more modern successor "Deutsch mit Max" and determine whether the conception of modern textbooks differ from those older ones only graphic, i. e. with illustration, and themes that correspond to the age of pupils, or with regard to grammar (the other choice, progression and quantity of grammar structures), and thus are these textbooks more suitable for the current teaching of the German language. Subsequently are the results of this work compared with the views of pupils who are taught according to these textbooks.
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Monitoring the status ecology education at selected high schools of the Czech Republic.
GROULÍKOVÁ, Eva
The aim of this thesis was to monitor the ecology education at high schools of the Czech Republic and to compare them with modern knowledge and overall concept of ecology as a scientific discipline. The survey shows that the majority of high schools teach biological ecology (93.87%) with average 12 hours during the whole school attendance. Materials for lessons are drawn from textbooks, most of which is used Biologie pro gymnázia (Jelinek and Zicháček, 2007). Less than half of the teachers used to obtain information from internet and popular science journals. The textbooks used in high schools generally focus on the standard ecology. Only a small extent occur (or even completely absent) today highly topical issues such as evolutionary ecology, community dynamics or biodiversity and the factors affecting it.
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Monitoring of the state of ecology education at secondary schools in the Czech Republic
JELÍNKOVÁ, Lucie
The aim of this work was to chart the situation of ecology education at Czech secondary schools and compare it with modern knowledge and with total concption of the ecology as a science discipline. Only 77 % of primary schools dedicated to biological ecology and most of teachers spend teaching this topic less than 10 lessons during the school attendance. Approximately half of the teachers use textbooks in teaching, mostly textbook series Ekologický přírodopis by D. Kvasničková et al. Less than half of teachers complement teaching by using popular-science journals and internet servers. Used textbooks are partly consistent with current conception of biological ecology, but there are missing topics like evolutionary ecology, the origin and development of the communities, the role of disturbation on formation of the communities, the factors influencing biodiversity and the ecological methodology.
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