Učenie sa na stanovištiach vo vyučovaní biológie.

One form of cooperative learning know as „learning at stations“ has become quite popular in Germany in the past few years among secondary school level science teachers. The learning at stations is one of the forms of opened teaching. The method leads the students to be active, offers students a number of different stations in the classroom where they can choose to work. This paper describes the learning at stations methods and illustrates its use with various sample lessons that were developed and tested. We found out that students mainly prefer the tasks that support their motion and personal creativity, what markedly influenced also information retention. On the other hand, the least favorized activities were those, which were conditioned by information searching in scientific literature because of time limitation. Pupils predominantly remembered utility of poisonous plants and its possible intoxications. They positively responded to group work that promoted their cooperativity, communication and creativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]