THE CULTURAL DAY IN THE SECOND GRADE - A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD

Diplomsko delo z naslovom Kulturni dan v drugem razredu – potovanje okoli sveta je sestavljeno iz treh delov, teoretičnega, praktičnega in empiričnega. V teoretičnem delu uvodoma predstavljamo dneve dejavnosti, njihove cilje, načrtovanje in organizacijo. Temu sledi opredelitev predmeta spoznavanje okolja ter pregled učnega načrta ter potrjenih učbenikov za predmet spoznavanje okolja, in sicer s stališča kulturnih dni, kjer pridemo do ugotovitev, da predlogi izpeljav kulturnih dni v pregledanem niso navedeni. V praktičnem delu diplomske naloge predstavljamo učno pripravo, izvedbo in vrednotenje kulturnega dne, ki smo ga izpeljali in ki zadošča vsem teoretičnim zahtevam sodobnega pouka. Kulturni dan smo izvedli na Osnovni šoli Rače, sodelovalo pa je 34 učencev drugih razredov. Potek kulturnega dne je dokumentiran tudi s fotografijami. V zadnjem, empiričnem delu diplomske naloge prikazujemo izsledke raziskave, ki smo jo izvedli med učenci pred in po izvedbi kulturnega dne. Namen raziskave je bil ugotoviti, ali je znanje učencev po izvedbi kulturnega dne bistveno boljše, kar lahko tudi potrdimo.My diploma thesis entitled The cultural day in the second grade – a journey around the world consists of three parts, theoretical, practical and empirical. Theoretical part deals with activity days, their goals, planning and organisation. It is followed by a definition of the subject environmental education, from cultural days point of view, where we can establish that suggestions for execution of cultural days are not listed. Practical part represents educational preparation, execution and valuation of the cultural day, which was executed and suffices for all theoretical demands of modern class. The cultural day was executed in Primary School Rače, where 34 second grade students participated. An event is also documented with photographs. The final, empirical part of my diploma paper presents research results, which were executed among students before and after our cultural day. The main purpose of the research was to establish if the students’ knowledge was fundamentally better after the execution of the cultural day, what we can affirm