Author of the work: Gintaras Rugienius Topic of the work: Influence of the social environment on pupils learning motivation. Preparation place of the work: Lithuania’s University of Agriculture. Departament of professional pedagogics and psychology Kaunas, 2006. Span of the work: 75 pages Work consists: 12 tables, 21 pictures, 3 annexes. Sources of the literature: 30 Object of the research: Pupils learning motivation Methods of the research: 1. Analysis of the literature; 2. Analysis of the documents; 3. Questionnaire made of literature analysis Questionairre made of V. Mikoliūnienė’s (1996), L. Rupšienė’s (2000) and B. Bitinas’ (2002) questionnaires; 4. Statistics analysis of data-basis using “PAULA“ software. Results of the reseach: It was stated that teenagers motivation is influenced by a group of social factors lieing in the family, school and relations among the friends. it was found that teenagers having different rates of attendance and progressive are influenced of different groups of factors. It was also stated that motivation of teenagers learning at different schools is influenced by different group of social factors.

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Inclusion of learning exercises intended to acquisition of schoolwork is desirable in majority of science subjects. This diploma thesis deals with creation of chemistry worksheets for 8th and 9th grade pupils of secondary school and forpupils of corresponding grades of lower grammar schools. Research of contemporary literature mostly chosen workbooks and worksheets available on the Internet isincluded in the thesis. The main part of the thesis was creation of worksheets on diferent themes in chemisty education according to RVP ZV. Created worksheets were verified and evaluated at schools. The thesis brings new possibilities how to deal with teaching some of the chemistry topics using pre-prepared worksheets, which contain mostly exercises for acquiring new schoolwork.