Batteries are synonymous for greater mobility. They facilitate our everyday activities, health issues, save our lives and indirectly they also entertain us. It is difficult to imagine today's society without batteries or other transmission energy sources (fuel cells, super capacitors). Not only in portable devices, batteries are becoming increasingly important for the storage of energy generated from renewable sources, especially when energy recovery is not possible (at night, no wind), or when there is a failure or overloaded electrical network.
Various projections show that their use will increase exponentially in the future.
The main reason for the thesis was the importance of batteries for our society and understanding of their functioning. For many children the completion of primary school also means the end of general education and therefore the hypothesis that these contents have not yet been covered in the curriculum due to the rapid development recently, is also very important.
The purpose of the thesis is to examine the scientific literature in the field of batteries, to consider the currently available textbooks for primary schools on the topic of batteries and to prepare a teaching unit, based on findings, which will enable primary school students to acquire basic knowledge in the field of batteries. In order to cover even a wider range of the population the preparation of teaching materials by visualizing basic processes in batteries is also presented on the Internet.
In the first part of the thesis we get acquainted with the theoretical basis for the formation of the teaching unit. The analysis presents data from the curriculum in science, engineering and technology, chemistry and physics. Then the extracts from the textbook sets of approved textbooks in printed form for the academic year 2015/2016 in relation to the topics of batteries are presented. This is followed by preparing lesson plans and experiments with suggestions for inserting the topic of batteries and their functioning in the curriculum for chemistry. Anyone eager for knowledge can repeat the topic on the Internet in an interactive format. Enclosed items of thesis allow the teacher to carry out teaching unit on batteries.
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