We live in the age of constant technological advances, using technology in both business and private life, which makes it indispensable in education and the teaching process. Today's education and contemporary schools tend to use student-centred learning where the student becomes a subject who, following certain guidelines, learns independently. In modern teaching, a teacher has a task to train students to define their own learning goals in order for them to master different learning strategies and learn the criteria of successful learning quality. The media has been around for ages. Different authors define and distinguish media differently. Although the concept of multimedia teaching may seem as something new at first glance, it has been present for a long time. Back in the 17th century, John Amos Comenius, recognized the importance of the media in teaching and learning processess. The field of use of the new media in teaching and learning process is a distinct research area that has attracked attention of researches ever since its beginnings. The aim of this thesis is to contribute to a better understanding of the use of the new media in the teaching of a school subject Science and Social Studies. The research aimed to determine whether schools are sufficiently equipped, whether they provide the opportunity to use the new media, what are the teachers' attitudes towards using them, are the teachers eduacated enough to use them, as well as to see what they consider to be advantages and disadvantages. The teachers were also asked whether they consider that the new media could completely and properly replace traditional media in the future. The research has shown that the classrooms were poorly equipped with the new media and that the teachers try to find harmony between traditional and new media. As advantages of using new media in the teaching of Science and Social Studies, the examinees pointed out the increase of students' motivation, a clearer presentation of the content, the possibility of approaching authentic reality and a better visualization of the content. As the main disadvantage of using new media, most of the examinees have pointed out the decrease in the ability of oral and written expression and technical difficulties. Teachers are still supporters of classical teaching because they believe that no media can replace the 'living' word of a teacher.