In this Master thesis is observed how experiential learning, compared to the traditional way of teaching, affects the Sixth Grade students' knowledge about the seeds and fruits of plants and how it affects their attitudes towards plants. We have used a questionnaire which is in two parts. With the first part of the questionnaire we tested the students' attitudes towards plants, and in the second one we tested their knowledge through questions. The content of the questions in the test concerned in particular the learning content about sexual/asexual reproduction and dissemination of plants. Four sections of the Sixth Grade participated in the research. Three sections represented the experimental group, in which the lesson and the experiment have been carried out, whereas the fourth group represented the control group in which has been carried out only a lesson without the experiment. We have used the cause/effect experiental teaching method. According to the results so obtained we have found that there are no significant differences between the knowledge about seeds and fruits of plants attained by boys and girls in traditional classes and the knowledge attained in experiential learning classes. There also aren't present substantial differences in the attained knowledge about seeds and fruits of plants between boys and girls. Summing up the overall result, it can be said that there didn't emerge significant differences between the knowledge about seeds and fruits of plants attained by students in traditional classes and the same knowledge attained in experiential learning classes.
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