Development of giftedness, creative teacher, educational methods, excursion, motivation, science education.

Excursion as traditional teaching method has an innovative effect on the motivation of gifted students in science. The incentive effect of the excursion may be amplified by selecting an appropriate scientific center and its link with the educational content.The parts of modern physics such as astrophysics and nuclear physics, which explore such phenomena as the creation of the universe, may be considered as a highly motivating content. An example of such appropriate research center suitable for the excursion is CERN in Switzerland. In years 2010-2012 we repeatedly carried out the excursion to CERN with groups of students (aged 16-18) gifted for physics. Gifted students are offered a unique opportunity to get above-standard information in an interdisciplinary science in the top intellectual and scientific environment. We used students? questionnaire to investigate the motivational efficiency of excursions to CERN. The questionnaire results are included in our study.

Co-author, Co-presenter: Doc. RNDr. Josef Trna, CSc., Pedagogická fakulta, Masarykova univerzita, Brno