Abstract
In the recent years, several international studies have been implemented monitoring knowledge, skills and interest of students in science subjects. It is a well-known fact that their interest in these subjects, including chemistry, is on the decline.
The reason is that the students have problems with the formulation of hypotheses, with experimental activities and interpretation of data. They often learn the individual facts without understanding their substance and principles.
This contribution starts by short characterization of Inquiry Based Science Education and shows the importance of its implementation in the chemistry education as one possibility of resolving these problems. Then we analyse thematic units of chemistry curriculum, which are suitable for processing by IBSE.
Some selected tasks of the organic chemistry curriculum are also presented in the paper and described their implementation