Professional paper

IMPLEMENTATION THE CYCLE OF SUBSTANCES IN SCIENCE EDUCATION BY PROJECT TEACHING

Jozef Macko ; Faculty of Pedagogy, Catholic University, Ružomberok, Slovakia
Dana Blahútová ; Faculty of Pedagogy, Catholic University, Ružomberok, Slovakia

Abstract

Several attempts to establish the new teaching methods using school experiment as a tool developing pupil's personality are known from history of science education. The goal of the reform of education system in Slovakia is to transform the traditional encyclopedic teaching for the creative and value education, which emphasis is on activity and personal freedom, the power to create its progressive, creative way of being to live in the new millennium. This could be reached by gradually introducing of the innovative elements of project teaching to the science education what should finally lead to the pupil's visions of the nature as a whole. It is important that the student is able to orient himself in the topic, to gather information, process it and sort and be well on its own original solutions and design. Our article refers to the possibility of using the project teaching in topic “the cycle of substances in nature”.

Keywords

project teaching; water cycle: science education

Hrčak ID:

59107

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/59107

Publication date:

27.9.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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