CONCEPT OF HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES FOR LEARNING BIOLOGY IN THE CASE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION IN AN E-LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
LYUDMILA BOYADZHIEVA*, ZEKERIE REDZHEB, STELA KAVALDZHIEVA,
VIKTORIA NECHEVA, ANELLY KREMENSKA
Department of Methodology Faculty of Biology, Faculty of Biology, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, 8 Dragan Tsankov blvd., Sofia, 1164, Bulgaria
* Corresponding author: lusmar@abv.bg
Keywords: practical activities, biology, distance learning, pedagogical experiment
Abstract: Thе paper presents a concept of practical activities in distance learning in biology. The emphasis is placed on the practical activities assigned in conducting a pedagogical experiment with students from the 9th and 10th grades of Foreign Language School “Dimitar Dimov” in the town of Pleven. The article describes a method of assigning experimental tasks and traces the practical and emotional results in the realization of the learning tasks. The objectives of the pedagogical experiment are to prove the role of the practical tasks carried out at home in developing skills for working with bio-objects, skills for following an algorithm, and stimulating students’ creativity in performance and presentation of the task results. An analysis of the experiment validation results is presented.