Abstract
Physics as a teaching subject starts usually in the sixth year of the school attendance in the Czech Republic. It means that pupils meet physics in the age of eleven or twelve. On the other hand, some basic physics phenomena are included in the primary school teaching subjects. It is mainly school subject “Natural Science” in which the basic knowledge about water, air, electricity, heat, magnetism, optics and others are introduced to little pupils. The above mentioned contradiction represents relevant problem with significant influence on the tuition at the primary school. The authors of this contribution report how they deal with this problem. They developed a new seminar for future primary school teachers. The seminar is still in developing stage, but an important feedback was obtained during last years. There is a very important aspect in the developing of this new university subject, which is reported in present contribution. By this aspect the authors mean the fact, that the seminar was created on request of students themselves. It was great challenge as well as great chance for them to do something for future primary school teachers and offer them a new opportunity how to learn something from physics. The seminar is organized every semester and the authors were obtaining many useful experiences within the tuition of the one. Such a feedback represents a new basis for present modifications of the seminar.
Highlights
The role of science education is very important in primary school education
In present paper we introduce a seminar designed for future primary school teachers, students of Pedagogical Faculty, Charles University, Prague
There is a very important aspect in the developing of this new type of seminar
Summary
The role of science education is very important in primary school education. Small children construct first concepts of the physics phenomena in their minds in this period of life. Primary school teachers are the first ones in the school attendance who introduce pupils to the natural science It means that they have a crucial role in the building of proper concepts of nature - concepts of physics, chemistry, technology, and so on. Young pupils are very inquiring, they want to know how things work and they love to do experiments. This was one of the reasons for developing of a new seminar designated for future primary school teachers. The seminar provides the opportunity to familiarize the future teachers with experiments from the parts of natural science that are taught at primary school and give them an opportunity to try them themselves. The extermination of such misconceptions is another goal of our seminar
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