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Design and verification of inquiry-based tasks on the topic of separating the components of a mixture for elementary school learners
Sohar, Jakub ; Chroustová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Koperová, Dominika (referee)
1 ABSTRACT The bachelor's thesis deals with the issue of research-oriented teaching, mainly within the framework of teaching chemistry for elementary school students. In the first half of the theoretical part, I therefore focus on the definition of BOV levels, the process of including it in teaching and the definition of the term IBSE (inquiry-based science education). The second half is devoted to the description of chemical procedures and a search for published BOV topics on the separation of mixtures. The main goal of the subsequent practical part was to design and verify the newly created BOV tasks. Overall, three experiments are described specifically on the topic of filtration, which fulfill the essence of structured research and are designed for students who are just getting to know chemistry and its essence. An important idea for the tasks was to create them in such a way that the students could try them out at home and thus further deepen their research skills. The effectiveness and functionality of the experiments themselves was supported by my own implementation and qualitative analysis, which was based on information obtained from questionnaires that I sent to chemistry teachers from elementary schools.
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Honey bee - didactic model for environmental education in preschool education
KOŠNEROVÁ, Eva
Presented bachelor thesis is focused on science education of preschool children with the aim to apply educational activities. The introductory part of the thesis defines the basis of. The importance of the stay of preschool children in the outdoor environment is emphasized. The main task of this thesis is to present ideas for educational activities for preschool education, which are focused on the honey bee. Each performed activity contains detailed description of the activity, its own implementation and reflection.
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Educational programme presenting activities related to pond management for pupils at lower-secondary level
ČERMÁKOVÁ, Simona
Educational programme that presents activities related to pond agriculture to pupils from upper elementary schools. The main aim of the diploma thesis was to create an educational programme, that could introduce the basics of pond management to the pupils from upper elementary school. The programme was subsequently verified by pupils in real life. The programme was based on two analyses. The first study includes the topic of fish and pond management from textbooks for elementary schools. Second analysis is focused on the ŠVP and from that a selected group of elementary schools in the Czech Republic. The educational program is based on an excursion in pond management. After the excursion the pupils had to fill out a worksheet including a task with elements of research in the form of brainstorming, and they also had to create a mind map. The entire educational programme was verified by the pupils from the seventh grade of elementary school in Žďár nad Sázavou, mid- March. In the pond farm, the execution was led by a local fisherman. The pupils saw a live carp, zander, poke and even saw the hatcheries. The fisherman also explained the yearly works at the farm pounds. Pupils filed out the worksheet without any problems and they even had a variety of aids at their disposal. During the brainstorming activity I gained an overview of what the children imagine behind the term fish and pound management. Based on the concepts that were obtained thanks to the brainstorming activity the pupils created their own mind maps. In a task with elements of research teaching, the pupils found out how the gas bladder of fish works. The educational programme in practice is functional and usable in the Žďár region. After a few modifications it can be also used in other regions of the republic.
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Animal signs as a topic for inquiry in primary science education
ŠINDELÍŘOVÁ, Michaela
This diploma thesis deals with research-oriented teaching in science education. It tries to show the pupils that the animals have their own traces that they leave behind, and that thanks to these traces it is possible to find out the sequence of events that happened here. The aim of this work is to clearly define the traces of animals that can be found in nature and then put into practice, where students try to find these traces themselves and further work with them in the research. The work shows how students are able to solve problems in different ways and how they think about tasks. Finally, the work should show how research on animal signs can be incorporated into regular school teaching and thus enrich pupils with further knowledge. The diploma thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part defines the concept of research-oriented teaching and discusses the role of students and teachers. Furthermore, thesis deals with animal signs, as such and it is also supplemented by interdisciplinary relationships. The practical part contains worksheets, which were created for the purpose of research with pupils in primary school and further evaluation of pupils, how they did in research. The diploma thesis also contains other worksheets that were not performed due to lack of time. The diploma thesis was drawn up as part of a project GAJU 123/2019 / S.
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Plants as model organisms in inquiry science education in primary education
JINDROVÁ, Aneta
Research-oriented teaching is an attractive way of teching (not only) science subjects. At the first stage of primary school, it is an opportunity for developing students' research abilities. Plants are a suitable subject with which simple experiments, observations and research activities can be performed. The aim of the work is not only to find the possibility of using plant material in students' science research during teaching, but also to evaluate how research activities are accepted by students, how they are able to solve problems and how creative they are in solving research tasks. The work should show the possibilities of combining standard tasks based on plant observation with tasks based on different levels of research activity. The diploma thesis is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. I approached this thesis in four steps. In the first step the curriculum and content of selected textbooks are analyzed with a focus on the issue of learning about living nature, in the second step the educational offer is presented, in the next step the proposed educational offer is verified with simultaneous monitoring and analysis of students 'research tasks and pupils' creativity. In the last step, the results of the survey are evaluated and the obtained data are interpreted. The diploma was drawn up as part of a project GAJU 123/2019/S.
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Development of Students' Skills in Planning Procedure of Exploration in Science Inquiry
Příhodová, Karolína ; Vojíř, Karel (advisor) ; Brůnová, Linda (referee)
Research-oriented teaching is a constructivist form of teaching, where the student is not only passed on the material passively, but the student is actively involved in solving the problem. In the role of researcher, he makes hypotheses, conducts experiments and draws conclusions. The main goal of this work was to find out the development of students' skills to plan the research process in science research at the 2nd Dobříš Primary School. The work was divided into three parts. In the introduction to the theoretical part, the aim was to introduce readers to research- oriented teaching in biology lessons at the second level and the characteristics of concepts. The practical part was focused mainly on observing and evaluating the development of the ability to plan progress on already created topics for BOV. It was found that more than half of the students are able to formulate the procedure correctly for a given task and the rest are able to create a partial procedure or none at all. It would therefore be appropriate to focus on deepening knowledge and practical skills in research- oriented teaching. KEYWORDS Research-oriented teaching, research, process development, biology
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Using Pasco in Alternative Types of Teaching
MARTÍNEK, Jiří
The bachelor thesis deals with the characteristics of two alternative approaches to education - Step by Step, the Dalton School, it also mentions research-oriented teaching and in connection with it the PASCO measuring device. It compares methods of classical teaching and research, determines their pros and cons. The practical part offers 15 practical tasks of measurement with PASCO.
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Arthropods as a model taxon in learning about nature at primary level
TŮMOVÁ, Jana
This diploma thesis deals with the arthropod strain as a suitable taxon model in learning about the nature at the first grade of a primary school. The methodological analysis of using the animal strain explains the reasons why the arthropods are used in teaching natural science lessons and provides specific characteristics and manifestations of living organisms, which are possible to be demonstrated on it. The second part of the literature review presents the status of learning about the nature according to the Framework educational program and representation of arthropods in czech textbooks of the natural sciences. The thesis is a collection of newly created exercises for a first degree pupils of primary education, using the selected representatives of arthropods. These tasks use the methods of the direct study of nature and the elements of contemporary popular research-oriented teaching.
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