Several attempts to establish the new teaching methods using school experiment as a tool developing pupil\u27s personality are known from history of science education. The goal of the reform of education system in Slovakia is to transform the traditional encyclopedic teaching for the creative and value education, which emphasis is on activity and personal freedom, the power to create its progressive, creative way of being to live in the new millennium. This could be reached by gradually introducing of the innovative elements of project teaching to the science education what should finally lead to the pupil\u27s visions of the nature as a whole. It is important that the student is able to orient himself in the topic, to gather information, process it and sort and be well on its own original solutions and design. Our article refers to the possibility of using the project teaching in topic “the cycle of substances in nature”.Iz povijesti znanosti obrazovanja poznato je nekoliko pokušaja izrade novih nastavnih metoda pomoću školskih eksperimenata kao alata u razvoju učenikove osobnosti. Cilj reforme obrazovnog sustava u Slovačkoj je transformirati tradicionalnu enciklopedijsku nastavu u smjeru kreativnog i vrijednog obrazovanja, koje naglasak stavlja na aktivnost i osobne slobode. To bi se moglo postići postupnim uvođenjem inovativnih elemenata projektne nastave za znanost obrazovanja, što bi konačno trebalo dovesti do toga da učenika doživljava prirodu kao cjelinu. Važno je da se učenik može orijentirati na temu, prikupiti podatke, obraditi ih i sortirati i dati vlastita originalna rješenja i dizajn. Naš rad se odnosi na mogućnost korištenja projektne nastave na temu "ciklus tvari u prirodi"
