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Selection and development of educational materials for high school support webpage www.studiumchemie.cz
Zaspalová, Jana ; Šmejkal, Petr (advisor) ; Petrželová, Simona (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with selection, design and creation of new education materials for high school teacher supporting webpage www.studiumchemie.cz. The selection of the proper theme was done on the basis of research and evaluation of recent materials on the mentioned webpage and materials created at the Department of chemical education of Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague. Preliminarily, the themes of synthetic macromolecular materials and new materials were selected. The convenience of the selected themes was confirmed by research and evaluation concerned to the preliminarily selected theme of recent high school textbooks and webpages. Consequently, educational materials in the form of PowerPoint presentations, websites, worksheets, tests, games and experiments focused on the themes of synthetic macromolecular substances and new materials were created. Materials were processed in accordance with the Framework Education Programme for Secondary General Education (Grammar Schools) as well as in accordance with the requirements of the Catalogue of graduation exam requirements from chemistry. The PowerPoint presentation and the webpage on synthetic macromolecular materials were roughly evaluated by group of teachers and the results of the evaluation are also part of the thesis....
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Digestion as an interdisciplinary topic in science education
Šarboch, David ; Teplá, Milada (advisor) ; Martínek, Václav (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on creating educational materials (educational text and educational animation) for secondary schools emerging topic of digestion in human body. The thesis consists of theoretical and practical part. In the theoretical part the following terms are defined: interdisciplinarity, visualization and animation. Moreover, the presence of the topic in the RVP G and analysis of accesible videos and animations, made in relation with the topic, are investigated. Results of both form a base to create educational materials within the practical part. Finally, a chapter about quantitative research method - questionnaire is incorporated. In the practical part of the diploma thesis, the results of realised questionnaire research are disscused. This questionnaire investigated the state of teaching of digestion in human body at secondary schools. The next chapter is dedicated to a manual for educational animation, the introduction of the programme Adobe Flash Professional CS6 and an educational text. The educational text is devoted to teachers at the first place and consists of basic as well as wider information gathering chemical and biological knowledge, which are related to the topic of the educational animation. The animation itself is put as the attachement on CD-ROM. Both of the...
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Pupils' learning from educational material followed by eye-tracking method
Krejčí, Alžběta ; Kekule, Martina (advisor) ; Snětinová, Marie (referee)
This thesis focused on monitoring the process of reading an educational text by pupils and the influence of text related questions on this process. The monitoring was done using the eye-tracking method and 12 pupils and 1 teacher took part in the study, all of them from various high schools. The study showed that pupils who have text related questions at their disposal spend almost twice the time reading the educational text. Moreover, they tended to pay more attention to additional visual material such as pictures and graphs. By analyzing gaze plots and interviews with the pupils we found out that from time to time they seek out or remember key concepts with no further context, which in turn sometimes leads to incorrect understanding of the concept or the covered topic.
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Physical bases of thermography for radiotherapists
LÁVIČKA, Šimon
There is currently no educational material for radiological assistants and students in this field to discuss the physical foundations of thermography. In particular, material which is appropriate to the presumed physical and mathematical knowledge required for the field of Radiologic Assistant and other related disciplines. Especially due to the fact that part of the scientific community sees in thermography a promising method for mammologii, rheumatology, orthopedics, angiology and dentistry. This motivation led to the elaboration of this bachelor thesis which set out these following goals: The selection of theory of knowledge transfer to the level of "Radiological Asssistant" and other related fields. The creation of an educational text that respects the chosen theory and reflects the blackbody radiation laws. The monitoring of current state of thermography knowledge in the addressees. There were two hypotheses formulated on the basis of an analysis of the current state and the setting of objectives: The application of theory to the curriculum process can create important components of a project curriculum for a given group of learners. The knowledge of the learners will have a theoretical distribution of the near- normal distribution in the area of physical fundamentals of thermography. As a convenient theory for transferring knowledge from science to the educational sphere has been proved to be the theory of the curricular process. Its applicability was accepted by the international scientific community as well see the impacted publication (Záškodný, 2012). Firstly, it was necessary to remind a generally known relationship of infrared radiation to thermography and than analyze the discovered theoretical physical backgrounds up to date, the most important for thermography also in relation to the radiation of the blackbody. There are also shown and described subsequent physical laws: Stefan-Boltzmann law, Wien displacement law, Rayleigh-Jeansons law and Planck´s radiation law, whereby it is especially necessary to emphasize the relationship of these laws to blackbody radiation whose temperature is between 0 K or -273,15 through the explanation of the emissivity parameter, which is a dimensionless quantity determining the heat emission capability. Its value must be entered in the thermal camera. Subsequently, a knowledge test was created on eighteen questions with a selection of four options, where only one was correct. Twenty-five radiological assistants active in their field at the age of twenty-three to fifty-three, with a length of practice from half a year to thirty-one years, were addressed. The methods of descriptive and mathematical statistics were used in the quantification of the addressees´ knowledge. All twenty-five tests were processed this way. Performing nonparametric testing of the empirical distribution of the scores obtained from these tests revealed that the second of the hypotheses set was not confirmed. The knowledge of the addressees was higher than the hypothetical assumption.
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Digestion as an interdisciplinary topic in science education
Šarboch, David ; Teplá, Milada (advisor) ; Martínek, Václav (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on creating educational materials (educational text and educational animation) for secondary schools emerging topic of digestion in human body. The thesis consists of theoretical and practical part. In the theoretical part the following terms are defined: interdisciplinarity, visualization and animation. Moreover, the presence of the topic in the RVP G and analysis of accesible videos and animations, made in relation with the topic, are investigated. Results of both form a base to create educational materials within the practical part. Finally, a chapter about quantitative research method - questionnaire is incorporated. In the practical part of the diploma thesis, the results of realised questionnaire research are disscused. This questionnaire investigated the state of teaching of digestion in human body at secondary schools. The next chapter is dedicated to a manual for educational animation, the introduction of the programme Adobe Flash Professional CS6 and an educational text. The educational text is devoted to teachers at the first place and consists of basic as well as wider information gathering chemical and biological knowledge, which are related to the topic of the educational animation. The animation itself is put as the attachement on CD-ROM. Both of the...
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Support material for teaching NMR spectroscopy at secondary schools
Tomanová, Marie ; Tošner, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Hrubý, Martin (referee)
Nuclear magnetic resonance is an important, irreplaceable and very common method used in chemistry and medicine. From this perspective, it is highly desirable to implement NMR spectroscopy into high school education. But unfortunately there is not enough material in the Czech language, which would correspond to a high school student's level of knowledge. This thesis looks at creating support materials for teaching NMR spectroscopy and the possibilities of its implementation into high school education. For this purpose, following materials were prepared: an educational text, tests and a database of measured spectra (appendix on CD). Materials were tested in the form of a directed interview and then modified according to the results. This testing confirmed that the text is clear, motivating, and that this topic would be appreciated by both students and teachers. The materials will be available for teachers and high school students at the educational portal studiumchemie.cz. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Nanotechnology: Implementation of contemporary progress into science education at secondary school and in education of future chemistry teachers
Hájková, Zdeňka ; Šmejkal, Petr (advisor) ; Procházka, Marek (referee)
This rigorous thesis is focused on possible ways how to implement interesting and important findings from the field called "nanoworld" into the curriculum of science subjects at secondary school. For this purpose the following materials were prepared: an educational text (which also serves as a theoretical base that summarises basic information about nanotechnology and nanoscience), a multimedia Power- Point presentation, a concept of a project "When you say NANOTECHNOLOGY...", a concept of an excursion, motivational and developing interdisciplinary tasks with the theme "nano", two tests aimed at nanotechnology and advanced microscopy techniques (electron microscopy and scanning probe microscopy) and simply demonstrations. The proposed project was tested at two grammar schools in Prague. The excursion was also realized and evaluated. Both the project as well as the excursion met with an average response from students. This thesis is accompanied by a CD with the presentation and print versions of the project, pre-test, post-test and worksheets for the excursion, interdisciplinary tasks and test items. In addition, the CD contains photos and students work from the realization of the pro- ject. Furthermore, this thesis includes the questionnaire "Teach (learn) about "nano" - YES or NO?" (with...
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Selection and development of educational materials for high school support webpage www.studiumchemie.cz
Zaspalová, Jana ; Šmejkal, Petr (advisor) ; Petrželová, Simona (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with selection, design and creation of new education materials for high school teacher supporting webpage www.studiumchemie.cz. The selection of the proper theme was done on the basis of research and evaluation of recent materials on the mentioned webpage and materials created at the Department of chemical education of Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague. Preliminarily, the themes of synthetic macromolecular materials and new materials were selected. The convenience of the selected themes was confirmed by research and evaluation concerned to the preliminarily selected theme of recent high school textbooks and webpages. Consequently, educational materials in the form of PowerPoint presentations, websites, worksheets, tests, games and experiments focused on the themes of synthetic macromolecular substances and new materials were created. Materials were processed in accordance with the Framework Education Programme for Secondary General Education (Grammar Schools) as well as in accordance with the requirements of the Catalogue of graduation exam requirements from chemistry. The PowerPoint presentation and the webpage on synthetic macromolecular materials were roughly evaluated by group of teachers and the results of the evaluation are also part of the thesis....
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