Abstract:

Intelligent systems are currently becoming a part of our everyday life. Agriculture is also one of the important areas. Not only for large-scale growers, but also for small, they can save labor or make the production process more efficient. Typical examples are e.g. automatic watering according to the current needs of the plants, maintaining ideal climatic parameters in foil trees or detecting ground frosts. It is therefore very important to focus on education in this area already in secondary schools. In our contribution, we will focus on the possibility of implementing elements of intelligent systems in computer science lessons. The basis is the acquisition of appropriate knowledge in the field of the behavior of such systems. Students will learn to design models of real solutions with respect to electronic components and microprocessor programming. Using these models, they perform various simulations. In our case, we used the TinkerCad environment. Subsequently, students can practically realize and implement their proposal at home or in the school premises. We try to work with universal and available modules. Their work does not become just something that was a school project, but acquires meaning as work with real use. They acquire practical skills that also contribute to their development, and we also know how to motivate them properly. We can therefore combine theory with practice, taking into account the current requirements of modern times. In addition to IT knowledge, students also use knowledge from mathematics, physics or professional subjects. Since these are more complex solutions, they also require deeper knowledge acquired in the first years of high school, which is why we support interdisciplinary relationships. At the end of the work, we present our results.

Keywords:

Programming, Education, Agriculture, Informatics.