Publication details
Využití sportovní soutěže k motivaci v přírodopise a zeměpise
| Title in English | Sport competition as a tool of motivation in biology and geography |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Physical training is one of the most popular school subjects for elementary school pupils. The author of this text reports about the contest called Tourist race organized by the Club of Czech tourists. The basis of competition is cross-country running but other tasks (such as recognizing of shrubs and trees, recognizing of tourist signs, topographical signs, cultural-cognitive activity, work with a map and compass or outdoors estimating of distance) are also very important The temper of racing is very strongly motivating to cope with these tasks. The competition is annually attended by several hundred children and adults. This work evaluates the success of competitors in children's categories in solving chosen biological and geographical tasks depending on various factors (e.g. age and sex of competitors, the year of competition). Among other results, it has been observed that the average number of mistakes of all categories of pupils in recognizing of shrubs and trees grows in the years 2008-2013 and slightly increasing tendency in the average number of errors was observed even for the oldest adult competitors for the same task. This fact could indirectly point to decreasing frequency of outdoor activities of children including trips together with their parents, as this activity is naturally connected also with recognizing of plants. |