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Global climate change is an important and topical issue that the public, and especially the younger generation, should be well acquainted with. However, relatively little attention is paid to this issue in the currently valid biology textbooks and in the Framework Educational Programme (FEP) for Czech grammar schools. It is not beneficial to pass on knowledge about this issue to students only in the form of bare facts that would have to be memorized. On the contrary, it is desirable that pupils themselves actively acquire information on the issue, think about it critically and understand it. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to follow up on the article "Water and Plant Stress" published in issue number 4/2019 of this journal in order to elaborate the given topic in a didactic manner, in the form of nineteen active learning tasks intended primarily for pupils at upper secondary schools. Pupils have to draw upon information from introductory texts, graphs, tables or pictures to solve them correctly and critically think about them and to some extent can apply previously acquired knowledge and experience. Such acquired knowledge can then be applied more convincingly not only at school but also outside of it. The author's solutions are attached to the tasks. The proposed tasks were selected from a set of 30 tasks elaborated on the given topic, which were tentatively tested during pedagogical practice at a grammar school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with common activity of parents and children as one of the effective educational instruments developing mastering diverse kinds of activities and supporting the favourable emotional climate in family. It continues the previously published text "Educational interaction of parents and children and its transformations" that is supplied by further research data. The results brought factual data concerning the proportion of commonly executed activities in adolescent boys and girls with their parents and proposed the conditions for their effective implementation. It shows that favourable emotional relations of parents and adolescents are important for the implementation of common activities. Common activity of parents and children represents an important socialization and educational factor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]