Beaver contest in the first three-year cycle of elementary school

Mednarodno tekmovanje iz računalniškega razmišljanja in pismenosti Bober je en izmed načinov, s katerim lahko na zabaven način povečamo zanimanje za računalniške teme med otroki. Prvi del diplomskega dela je namenjen predstavitvi tekmovanja Bober, predstavitvi nalog, ki jih rešujejo otroci na tekmovanju, predstavitvi značilnosti računalniškega razmišljanja in predstavitvi značilnosti aktivnega ter problemskega učenja. V empiričnem delu smo se osredotočili na reševanje problemskih nalog s tekmovanja Bober v prvem triletju osnovne šole. Poiskali smo učne cilje, ki se navezujejo oz. povezujejo z računalniškim razmišljanjem in preučili naloge, ki so jih znotraj tekmovanja Bober pripravili za učence na tej stopnji. Na dveh izbranih osnovnih šolah smo med učenci prvega triletja izvedli preverjanje znanja s področja računalniškega razmišljanja z nalogami tekmovanja Bober iz leta 2015. Izvedli smo tudi intervju z učitelji sodelujočih razredov, s katerim smo pridobili njihovo mnenje o težavnosti Bobrovskih nalog, ki so jih reševali učenci, in povezanosti nalog s temami iz učnega načrta.Beaver is international problem solving contest with a focus on computational thinking. It is one of the ways to increase interest in computer topics among children. The first part of the thesis is devoted to the presentation of the Beaver contest and its tasks. We presented the computational thinking, active learning and problem-based learning. In the empirical part we focused on problem solving tasks in the Beaver contest in the first three years of primary school, we found the learning objectives, which relate to computational thinking. We have examined the tasks that were prepared within the Beaver contest for students at this stage. At two selected elementary schools, the examination of computer science knowledge was performed among students in the first three years with the tasks from the Beaver contest in 2015. We also carried out an interview with the teachers to check their opinion on difficulty of the Beaver tasks that were solved by the students, and correlations between the tasks and themes from the curriculum