Unconventional Activities for Popularization and Teaching Chemistry

Title Unconventional Activities for Popularization and Teaching Chemistry Abstract Decreasing concern in science, especially in chemistry and physics, leads to searching for ways to bring these sciences not only to pupils but also adults, who can then use the outcomes or mediate them to their children and thus excite their interest in these disciplines. Popularization of chemistry using traditional or unconventional ways thus becomes, together with chemistry teaching itself, increasingly important. This thesis is devoted mainly to chemistry popularization using unconventional activities. The theoretical part is about the importance of chemistry popularization and problems connected with it. Apart from that, it also deals with chemical tasks as activating means and the classification of learning tasks. The practical part contains prepared tasks with chemical themes. Selected themes are elaborated on for the levels of knowledge and skills of pupils of primary and secondary schools. The concluding part of the thesis summarizes the results obtained during the verification of the tasks in practice and introduces the possibilities of using the created tasks in chemistry teaching in primary and secondary schools