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An Educational Game in Teaching Human Biology at Primary Level
CAPOUCHOVÁ, Anna
The goal of diploma thesis was to create three author´s didactic games of human biology designated for education of pupils of elementary school. Games were created for 2nd year of the elementary school. The goal of the games was to acquire new knowledges and deeper existing knowledges about a topic human biology. Games follow up topics: structure of human body, senses, diseases and injures. Pupils' knowledges were verified by pretest, posttest n. 1 and posttest n. 2. Results of tests were verified between the experimental group (didactic games) and the control group (common form by using interactive exercises).
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An Educational Game in Teaching First Aid at Lower Secondary Level
PODLEŠÁKOVÁ, Nikol
The aim of this bachelor thesis was to create three authorial didactic games on the topic of first aid for pupils of the second stage of elementary school. The games were created with the aim of acquiring and consolidating knowledge in the topic of first aid. The author of the work used games to teach pupils at the second stage of elementary school in a city located in the Pilsen Region in Šumava in an experimental group in class 9.A with 15 pupils and, on the other hand, in the school the same for the same topics in the control group in class 8.A with 20 pupils teaching conventional. The implementation of the teaching and the time allocation of the topic were practically the same for both groups. In connection with teaching, the author of the thesis created a test that pupils filled in just before the lesson, just after the lesson and after fourteen days after the lesson (Pretest, Posttest I. and Posttest II.). Another necessary requirement was a questionnaire for all pupils, also prepared by the author, which served for the evaluation of teaching and teaching pupils. Data obtained from tests and questionnaires were statistically evaluated. The evaluation of the Pretest showed an average score of 8.70 +- 2.41 points in the control group with a success rate of 51.2 % and in the experimental group of 9.67 +- 2.02 with a success rate of 56.9 %. In Posttest I., the control group achieved 15.05 +- 1.39 points with a success rate of 88.5 % and the experimental group 15.33 +- 1.99 points with a success rate of 90.2 %. In Posttest II., the first group received an average of 13.85 +- 3.47 points with a success rate of 81.5 % and the experimental group 13.80 +- 2.08 points with a success rate of 81.2 %. Using the evaluation of the Student's test and the ANOVA test, the author found that the difference between the results of the three tests was not evaluated as statistically significant. Student's test: Pretest - p = 0.83, Posttest I. - p = 0.53 and Posttest II. - p = 0.34 and test ANOVA: p = 0.88. The assessment of teaching by pupils was evaluated in the control group with an average mark of 1.40 +- 0.60 and in the experimental group 1.27 +- 0.57. The difference in mean values between the groups using the Student's test was not evaluated as statistically significant (p = 0.61). The teacher's assessment had an average mark of 1.20 +- 0.52 in the control group and 1.07 +- 0.25 in the experimental group. The difference in averages using the Student's test was not statistically significant (p=0.74). Although the currently valid Framework Educational Programme for Basic Education (FEP BE) does not pay much attention to the target group of first aid, the pupils of the mainstream school evaluated the topic and the way of transmitting information very positively. The first two games can force pupils to think about objective situations, and in the third game they become part of simulations, with each pupil trying out their authentic behavior in a given situation.
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Using CLIL in Teaching First Aid and German at Lower Secondary Level
JUNGVIRTHOVÁ, Monika
The Master's thesis deals with the Content and Language Integrated Learning in German (CLILiG) of the topic of first aid, which is part of the subject of natural history at upper primary school. Its main goal was to create four CLILiG activities and verify them in practice. The theoretical part describes the key concepts associated with the creation of activities. It focuses on the general principles, objectives, methods and assessment in the CLIL approach, which links content and language learning. Attention is paid mainly to CLILiG approach. The methodological support and connection of CLILiG with the topic of first aid at upper primary school was also analysed. The practical part is focused on the creation and verification of activities with the topics of first aid for fractures, bleeding, loss of consciousness, burns and epileptic seizures. The research connected with their verification took place during natural history lessons of Year 8 pupils at the primary school in České Budějovice. The results showed that the proposed activities increase pupils' knowledge of first aid even more than during lessons without CLIL (p = 0.043). However, the effect of CLILiG on longer-term memorization has not been demonstrated via pretest-posttest design (p = 0.072). Pupils also rated the completed CLILiG activities; they liked the didactic game First Aid the most (average grade 1.7). At the beginning of the research, a short questionnaire survey was conducted, in which pupils included in the experiment participated. It showed that pupils were interested in learning natural history through a foreign language (10% of pupils would really enjoy it, 42% of pupils would enjoy it, 38% of pupils did not know, 10% of pupils would not enjoy it). However, they would prefer the English language (78% chose English, 13% English and German). Acquisition of foreign language skills in connection with the topic of first aid is then considered important (82.6% of pupils) and useful (87% of pupils).
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Teaching about Human Endocrine System at Elementary School
KLOKOČKOVÁ, Markéta
The main goal of the bachelor thesis was to create five original didactic games on the topic of the human endocrine system for pupils of the 2nd grade of primary school. The didactic games were created in order to consolidate the basic knowledge and to acquire extension and supplementary knowledge.Teaching through the didactic games and conventional teaching were used at a mainstream primary school located in the Central Bohemian Region, in a town with a population of 1 to 8 thousand, after the consultation with the school administration and the subject teacher.The control and experimental groups were tested using pretest, posttest I and posttest II.
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Teaching about selected topics of first aid at elementary school
BARTOŠOVÁ, Barbora
The aim of thesis was to design and to verify the author's education programme on chosen topics about first aid. The verification of the programme had to take place, due to long-term schools closure, in two parallel eight grade classes in the form of distance learning in one of the elementary schools in Ceske Budejovice. Before the lesson, the students had to fill in Pretest, that was supposed to discover students' existing knowledge of the topic of first aid. An experimental class was chosen randomly, in which the lesson was led with the help of the instructional videos of the author's programme, practical drill, didactic game, crosswords and wordsearch. Control group was taught conventionally through monologue with the help of Microsoft Powerpoint presentation following with students' filling in a worksheet. The second day of the lessons, each class filled in a Posttest I and two weeks later a Posttest II, in both cases these were two identical didactic tests. The principle Pretest - Posttest verified the effectiveness of the relevant education project and through the statistical analysis of the t-test it was discovered that a statistically significant increase of the knowledge level in both groups of students occurred. Because both groups improved and then worsened, the chosen type of teaching did not affect their knowledge level. The difference of the Pretest, Posttest I and Posttest II was statistically different in favour of the experimental group contrary to the control group and also in favour of boys contrary to girls. Perception of the importance of the first aid topic changed in time in the way that students assigned the topic more value. The verified education material could be a benefit to biology lessons in upper primary schools.
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An Educational Game in Teaching Human Nervous System
NEUBAUEROVÁ, Marcela
The bachelor's thesis aimed to create four author's didactic games for primary school pupils and their verification in practice. Two didactic games were primarily created to acquire knowledge of the topic of the human nervous system. The other two didactic games were created to consolidate knowledge of the topic of the nervous system and knowledge of the topic of the digestive, respiratory, circulatory and muscular systems. The verification of the created didactic games took place at a regular primary school, which is located in a South Bohemian town with a population of 1 to 5 thousand. The verification in practise was performed using pretest, posttest I. and posttest II.
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Comparing effectiveness of problem-based and traditional education of high school students
Vošmerová, Blanka ; Čížková, Věra (advisor) ; Čechová, Marie (referee)
In this diploma thesis is compared effectiveness of problem-based and traditional education of high school students as an example of thematical unit ?human respiration?. The effectiveness was compared with research work contains pretest,posttest I and posttest II. Student`s test`s results were statistical evaluated with two-sample tests and correlation analysis. This diploma thesis also contains preparations for both education alternatives and practical exercises (including presentation in PowerPoint) and czech and foreign autohors opinions of problem-based education and the effectivness of school.
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Freshmen chemistry teachers' ability to perform chemistry calculations
Frolíková, Markéta ; Rusek, Martin (advisor) ; Chroustová, Kateřina (referee)
This thesis deals with the study of skill sets which the students acquired prior to attending the Faculty of Education at Charles University, specifically the Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Education, and how their knowledge of the subject improved after attending the Chemistry Calculations course, specifically in the 2020/2021 winter semester. In the first part of this thesis, where the theoretical standpoints are established, the thesis deals with the research of chemistry calculations wherein, for example, the students' issues regarding these calculations are outlined. Additionally, this part includes the includes the position of chemical calculations inside curriculum documents (RVP ZV, RVP G and RVP SOV) and how they are accepted and used directly in elementary and high schools. The second, practical, part studies the students' ability to solve chemical calculations after attending high school. The study was carried out by entrance exams. Not only was the success rate observed, but also the reasons of success or failure were examined. In the subsequent section of the study, a similar entrance exam was given out to students who have attended the Chemistry Calculations course, which delivered insight into whether the course improved the knowledge of the students on this subject. All...
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The Psárský forest in the district of Prague - West as a location of school science excursion
Prokopcová, Michala ; Teodoridis, Vasilis (advisor) ; Říhová, Dagmar (referee)
Thesis TITLE: The Psárský forest in the district of Prague - West as a location of school science excursion AUTHOR: Bc. Michala Prokopcová DEPARTMENT: Department of Biology and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Education, Charles University SUPERVISOR: doc. RNDr. Vasilis Teodoridis, Ph.D. ABSTRACT The aim of the thesis is to examine the Psárský forest locality in the Prague-West region as regards its suitability for a school science excursion. The principal objective of the thesis was to prepare and take a comprehensive science excursion to Psárský forest and verify its educational efficiency for pupils of lower secondary school grades by means of pedagogical research. The research was carried out through didactical tests comparing the initial knowledge before the excursion (pretest) and acquired knowledge after the excursion (posttest). The didactical concept of the science excursion to Psárský forest was elaborated in accordance with the key aspects of the field biology didactics and based on complex evaluation of the fields of interest for the excursion planned to become a basis for the excursion contents and selection of suitable places for excursion activities. In addition to this, subsequent research via the attitude questionnaire to identify the excursions benefits within natural science education from...
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