Abstrakt
This paper presents "suburban paleontological camp" as a non-formal educational activity for young people. The goal of the camp is to motivate and encourage students' interest in the lifeless science (especially palaeontology, stratigraphy, petrology).
Therefore, the primary aim of this paper is to present the camp activities and to discuss the options and the characteristics (personal, general and educational) of this untraditional non-formal educational activity put into practice in the Czech Republic. Secondarily, we would like to deal with the results of a qualitative interview, which was done with the pupils of the latest camp in August 2016.
The results contribute to the evaluation of the camp which, actually exists for six years (2011-2016) in this form.