Title: Poznavanje domaćih životinja djece mlađe školske dobi
Abstract: This graduation thesis was done at the Department of Natural Sciences, in the subject of Natural Sciences 2 under guidance of mentor Irella Bogut, Associate Professor, PhD and co-mentor Željko Popovic, College Professor, M. Sc. Domestic animals are animals tamed for economic benefit. Domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce commodities such as food, fiber and labor are called livestock. In this diploma thesis, animals described are: horse, donkey, cattle, goats, goats, pigs, dogs, cats, rabbits who are also mammals, then chickens, ducks, goats, pigeons and turkeys belonging to birds and an insect, which is a bee. The goal of this research is to determine the knowledge of second and fourth graders about domesticated animals. The study was conducted in urban and rural environment, and I compared the results obtained with the test. In addition, I have presented the results of the analysis of the National Curriculum, the curriculum for elementary schools and textbooks from Science used by the respondents. The respondents were from two cities and two rural schools. The total number of respondents is 131, 82 pupils from urban schools and 49 pupils from rural schools. The research has shown that rural school pupils are able to recognize better domestic animals than urban school pupils are, and in most of the tasks rural school pupils have achieved better results. Urban school students demonstrated better knowledge in identifying the definition of domestic animals, where 96.34% of urban pupils knew the answer, while 89,80% of the rural school pupils knew the same. 84.15% of urban pupils and 69.39% of rural pupils knew which branch of agriculture belonged to domestic animals. Pupils from rural schools better achieved other tasks. The last part of the test, which was the foundation of this diploma thesis, showed that rural school pupils were better at recognizing the following domestic animals: bull (40.82%), lamb (55.10%), piglet (55.10%), cows (81.63%), pigs (81.63%), puppies (63.27%), calf (53.06%), kid (20.41%), chicken (93.88%), turkey-hen (48,98%), turkey-tom (57,14%), goat (59.18%), dog (89.90%), cock (93.88%), kitten (79.59%), foal (46.94%), goose (48.98%), gosling (14.29%), duck (59.18%), ram (57.14%) and chick (83.67%). By contrast, urban school pupils from have better recognized pigeons (90.24%), bees (84.15%), horses (93.90%), goose (70.73%), cat (90.24%), colt (10.98%), ostrich (80.49%), sheep (82.93%) and European rabbits (2.44%). The research has shown that students from rural environment have shown better recognition for 21 domestic animals. In addition, many rural school pupils knew the benefits of goats, chickens, sheep, ducks, pigs, geese, horses and bees.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-06-30
Language: en
Type: dissertation
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