PdF:ZeC012 Field practice in physical geo - Course Information
ZeC012 Field practice in physical geography
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2022
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Peter Mackovčin, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- 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 - Prerequisites
- Completion of analytical disciplines of physical geography: Relief and structure of the Earth. Soils and biota of the Earth.
- 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 aim of the course is to demonstrate the model region of Czechia and in practice show and check the knowledge gained in lectures and seminars from partial physical-geographic disciplines. Students will be acquainted with the natural conditions of the model area, its economic use and settlement conditions. Students will understand the situation in the visited region. Their tasks will consist in the purpose assessment of the territory and mapping of examples of selected phenomena in individual natural components in the territory with respect to human activities (harmful natural processes, inappropriate use, threatened by human activities).
- Learning outcomes
- Students will be acquainted with the natural conditions of the model territory, its economic use and settlement conditions. Students will thus understand the situation in the visited region. Their tasks will consist in the purposeful assessment of the territory and the mapping of examples of selected phenomena in the various physical components (geological base, relief, soil and biogeographical conditions).
- Syllabus
- 1) Collection of material from the field practice - text, tabular and map materials. 2) Processing notes and information obtained from lecture while discovering the model area. 3) Division of tasks and territory of field practice. 4) Independent working on tasks in the field. 5) Creating individual and group reports from the field practice.
- Literature
- recommended literature
- Půdní mapa ČR, měřítko 1:50 000, Výzkumný ústav meliorací a ochrany půdy, Praha-Zbraslav
- Geologická mapa ČR, měřítko 1:50 000, Ústřední ústav geologický, Praha
- Základní mapa ČR, měřítko 1:10 000, 1:25 000, 1:50 000, ČÚZK, Praha
- Teaching methods
- Explanation in the field. Independent student work. Separate group data processing from the field.
- Assessment methods
- In order to pass the subject, it is necessary to actively participate and submit the report of individual work and group work from the field trip.
- 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.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 16 hod.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2022, recent)
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