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Utilization of School Garden for Practical Activities with Plants at Lower-secondary School
Grygová, Petra ; Skýbová, Jana (advisor) ; Říhová, Dagmar (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with use of a school garden for practical activities during excursion activities. The specific selected locality is the school garden of Business Academy and Secondary School of Agriculture and Ecology in Žatec. The main goal was preparation of practical activities that might be implemented in the school garden and their verification in classes of lower grades students of the lower-secondary school. The proposed research was carried out through didactic tests, in which the input knowledge was considered before the implementation of practical activities (pretest) and the knowledge acquired was afterwards verified in a posttest. The overall didactic concept of botanically oriented activities was elaborated in accordance with biology didactics. Subsequently, another survey took place in a form of attitude questionnaire, which aimed to determine popularity of practical activities in the school garden by the students themselves. The achieved research results demonstrate that practical activities with plants in the school garden are effective and popular form of teaching. KEYWORDS student, teaching forms and methods, school garden, practical activities, excursion activities, didactic test, attitude questionnaire
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The intake of carbohydrates for pupils at selected elementary schools
Grygová, Petra ; Váchová, Alena (advisor) ; Hanušová, Jaroslava (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the problematics of teenager's carbohydrate intake. It is divided into the theoretical and the practical part. The theoretical part is based on nutrition and evolution of teenagers and also on the rules of correct nutrition in general. It is followed by the definition of carbohydrates; their distribution, meaning, sources, digestion and metabolism. It also informs about diseases caused by excessive consumption of carbohydrates and their prevention. The main target of the survey was to obtain and process knowledge about carbohydrate intake of second degree pupils. The practical part, using the questionarre survey, maps the consumption of carbohydrates (quantity, type of food and frequency of eating). The result was fact, that second degree pupils do not differentiate, which carbohydrates do they consume. It was found, that carbohydrates are not part of everyday food for a large group of respondents. In contrast, the survey showed, that most of the respondents eat some sweets every day. In addition, most often consumed types of foods are pastries and bread containing polycarbohydrates, on the other hand biscuits containing glucose syrup or sucrose. In the conclusion, some possible preventive steps are mentioned. KEYWORDS Carbohydrates, consumption, nutrition,...
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