The Living Things in the Science Education at Primary School - The Video Research on the Current State of Instruction

Results of an analysis of 30 biology classes of integrated sciences taught at primary schools are presented in this article. The research investigated the current state of the use of living things or their substitutes in selected thematic units of the educational area Man and His World. Results were obtained by analysing video recordings via the software Videograph.

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