The contribution presents the offer of courses with chemical themes at Faculty of Education, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, which are intended for future teachers and not only for students of teacher training in chemistry. Attention is focused mainly on the course Chemistry&...

Soil, as a topic in education, is a typical multidisciplinary topic that can affect geography, biology and ecology, and if we deal with soil composition and analysis, it also affects chemistry and mathematics. From the chemistʼs point of view, the loss on ignition of the ...

In this contribution are listed important chemical experiments with selected transition metals and their compounds which can be used during teaching in primary and secondary school. There are stated informations about title, brief principle, aids and chemicals, work procedure and didactic no...

The aim of this article is to describe problems of students’ failure at the Faculty of Education. There are presented some causes of student’s failures and possibilities of system implementation to reduce students’ difficulties, especially at the beginning of their studies. The part...

The contribution introduces the readers to the results of questionnaire survey conducted in the spring of 2018. The participants were teachers of science subjects on primary and secondary schools in the Pilsen region. The survey’s goal was to find out the teachers‘ experience with&...

This paper focuses on the possible modifications of time-consuming and materially demanding experiments for teaching purposes. The aim is the complex utilization of experiments for demonstrative purposes, putting to effect several principles and techniques, while best limiting the undesirable side...

This article is concerned with education of processes of chemical technology. The most important part of the article contains educational materials and instructions for lab practices. The main goal of this article is to suggest some new and effective ways of teaching selected topic...