Audiovisual Aids in Science Education Teachers use modern technologies to attract students to science and give them better understanding of it. Through technology, students can explore science content in a way that would not otherwise be accessible. “As a part of my lesson on the Universe, I showed a video that presents celestial obj...

Student’s Local Projects There are many projects that offer students the opportunity to actively participate in the improvement of place they live in. Students participate in field research and plan it in cooperation with their teacher, classmates, fellow citizens, local enterprises, etc. They work together on the project a...

Tablets in Science Education – New Trend in the Czech Republic With expansion of modern technologies also the number of schools that use tablets for teaching grows. „Despite all the demands and difficulties, we cannot imagine returning to the classic way of teaching with a blackboard. Education results clearly show that the influence of digital learning is posi...

Selected for piloting The Explorers Project - Early Inquiry The Explorers Project is a result of two-year long cooperation of the TEREZA Association and a team of teachers. They worked together to create a methodology that would help to implement Inquiry Based Science Education into Czech primary schools. The core of Inquiry Based Science Education (IBSE) li...

The Explorers Project - Low Achievers The Explorers Project is a result of a two-year long cooperation of the TEREZA Association and a team of teachers. They worked together to create a methodology that would help implement Inquiry Based Science Education into Czech primary schools. The core of Inquiry Based Science Education (IBSE) lie...

The Go-Lab project Go-Lab creates an infrastructure (the Go-Lab Portal) to provide access to online laboratories run by research centres and universities worldwide in the areas of Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Earth science, Electronics, Engineering, Environmental sciences, Materials science, Maths, Physics and Techn...

The Green Professions Project The project Green Professions on Land was prepared and organised by a Czech NGO Cmelak – Spolecnost pratel prirody and partially run with a German partner. It deals with a decrease of young people’s interest in so-called green fields of study, such as agriculture or forestry. The project aims to rai...

Selected for piloting The White Ruta Puida, a teacher from Daugavpils Centra Secondary School, developed a lesson on substance recognition. Every day at home, we see a member of our family use various ingredients for cooking: salt, sugar, flour, etc. Especially, the three mentioned are similar to each other (they are white powders...