PdF:ZeC001 Introduction to the study of g - Course Information
ZeC001 Introduction to the study of geography
Faculty of Educationautumn 2020
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Taught online. - Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Bc. Darina Mísařová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PaedDr. Eduard Hofmann, CSc. (seminar tutor)
RNDr. Hana Svobodová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- doc. PaedDr. Eduard Hofmann, CSc.
Department of Geography – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Kateřina Brabcová
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Faculty of Education - Timetable
- Fri 23. 10. 13:00–16:50 učebna 5a
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- nejsou
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Geography Teacher Education for Lower Secondary Schools (programme PdF, C-CV)
- Course objectives
- The course presents geography as a science with it's methods of research, with it's object of study and it's partial disciplines. It presents basic statistical methods for working in geography. It deals with the basic features of the Earth as a planet, the geographical consequences of the motions and properties of the Earth. It develops skills related to selected themes and presents topics of planetary geography in teaching. The goals of the course are: A student defines the object of studying geography, uses basic statistical terms and characteristics, understands basic astronomic terms and relations directly influencing events in the landscape, explains the origin and evolution of the universe, Kepler's laws and the apparent movement of the solar system bodies. He can explain the influence of the Moon and other objects of the Solar System on Earth, draws and explains the basic elements of the orientation in Apace and on Earth, the apparent movement of the Sun through the celestial sphere, the course of the solar rays through the atmosphere, the influence of the atmosphere on the observation of the celestial bodies, explains the movement of the Earh and the Moon. At the end of the course the student will be able to: Draw the structure of geographic disciplines, calculate selected basic statistical characteristics, assemble the age structure of the population and describe it, compile pivot tables and time series, determine tasks using geographic coordinates, explain the culmination of the Sun, determine the local and zone time, calculate the distance between points on Earth to analyze and calculate the white day length. The student will also know the basic content of the theme of planetary geography in school teaching. Usage of the course in curriculum of elementary schools The subject falls primarily in the educational field "Humans and Nature", the field of study "Geography". The subject deals with the expected outputs of the thematic unit a) geographic information, data sources, cartography and topography b) natural images of the Earth and other thematic units a) environment, b) field geography, practice and applications. Cross-cutting themes: environmental education, education for thinking in European and global contexts Cross-curricular links: mathematics, physics, natural sciences.
- Syllabus
- Syllabus of lectures: Earth, its shape, dimensions and weight. Principles of spatial orientation on Earth. Movements of the Earth, Earths Axes, the evidence and consequences of their existence Time and calendar. Basic time units and ways of determining time. Apparent movement of objects in the celestial sphere and their coverings.
- Literature
- Teaching methods
- lectures, seminary
- Assessment methods
- written test including theory and practical caltulations
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6 hod.
- Enrolment Statistics (autumn 2020, recent)
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