Valós és virtuális interaktív modellek a biológia oktatásában
Real and Virtual Interactive Models in Biology Education

Summary/Abstract: Models have long been used in science education. The models used in the teaching process, whatever their type, always promote understanding. The aim of this work is to demonstrate the use of a real interactive model in teaching biology in upper primary school and to investigate the feasibility of further models in the teaching process. Soil erosion in education was modelled using a real interactive model. Our model was created in the courtyard of a selected Hungarian primary school in Slovakia, where a sufficient amount of sand was available for the students to build relief shapes (hill and mountain). They watered the landscapes from a watering can with a rose, observing how the irrigation water, which was used to illustrate rainwater, eroded the soil surface. The modelling was used to investigate the results of applying ‘anti-erosion’ solutions to the landform. This was compared with how it looks when its free, uncovered surface is washed by rainwater. Our experience shows that the children, eager to engage in the modelling, took it as a game, and learned and experienced an important ecological phenomenon through play.

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