Course: Field lessons in Geography

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Course title Field lessons in Geography
Course code KGG/DTVGE
Organizational form of instruction Field Exercise
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Fňukal Miloš, RNDr. Ph.D.
  • Jirmus René, Mgr.
  • Stražovec Adam, Mgr.
Course content
Field lessons didactic teaching geography takes place on a model workplace in the Moravian Karst in the village Jedovnice. While on this work, the students engaged in practical activities in the field and learn to theoretically and practically organize the teaching field. This form of instruction dwells on work in the field: to learn how to work out geographic characteristic of a small area and to use the following geographic skills at fieldwork: work with compass and with various types of maps, aerial photographs and orthophotomaps, plotting of route in thematic maps and confrontation with reality, comparison of changes in the landscape, monitoring of weather changes, working with natural materials etc.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
Learning outcomes
Main objective is to acquaint students with basics of outdoor geography teaching, its importance and uses at the basic and grammar school.
Application of geographical teaching methods in field practice.
Prerequisites
Elementary knowledge in general didactics.
KGG/DDGE1

Assessment methods and criteria
Systematic Observation of Student

Knowledge in general didactics and at least parallel completion of the course KGG/DIG1.
Recommended literature
  • Hofmann, E. a kol. (2003). Integrované terénní vyučování. Brno : Paido.
  • Hofmann, E., Černá, B., Rychnovský, B., Lauermann, L. (1999). Jedovnice a okolí. Modelová oblast pro terénní vyučování. Brno : CERM - Akademické nakladatelství, s.r.o.
  • Korvas, P., Hofmann, E. (2008). Orientace v přírodě. Brno : Masarykova univerzita.
  • Rychnovský, B., Budiš, J., Horká, H., Kolejka, J., Navrátil, V., Hofmann, E. (2002). Environmentální výchova. I. Brno : PdF MU v Brně.


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