Education plays a big role in shaping attitudes. Because attitudes play an important role in people's decision-making about changes in nature, it is important to monitor them in primary education in our country. The aim of our work was to investigate how field exercises in the form of a camp influence the attitudes of sixth-grade students towards fieldwork and how attitudes are related to changes in interest, disgust and fear towards certain situations that students often encounter in fieldwork. In general, pupils express positive attitudes towards fieldwork before the camp, but sixth-form pupils have more positive attitudes towards fieldwork before the camp than seventh-form pupils. Students living in a house have more positive attitudes towards fieldwork before the camp than those living in a block. After the camp, some pupils have more positive attitudes towards fieldwork than before. Before the camp, pupils are more afraid of getting wet, dirty, scratched or injured in the fieldwork than after the camp, and pupils prefer to spend time in nature after the camp than before. Girls generally have more positive attitudes towards fieldwork than boys, and the direct experience of the camp has an impact on reducing disgust among students, especially girls. Given that in Marindol the students spent most of their time in nature and did not have much fieldwork in science, but that positive results on attitude formation are already indicated, it would be worthwhile to carry out future research involving more fieldwork and the camp could last several days.
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