BIp029 Cultivation Methods for Teachers

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Kateřina Ševčíková (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Kateřina Ševčíková
Department of Biology – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Kateřina Ševčíková
Supplier department: Department of Biology – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
BIp029/01: each even Monday 8:00–11:50 Botanická zahrada Kejbaly, K. Ševčíková
BIp029/02: each odd Monday 8:00–11:50 Botanická zahrada Kejbaly, K. Ševčíková
Prerequisites
Course includes instruction in the form of exercise. In the exercises, students learn the basic knowledge and skills related to the growing selection of garden plants. Students learn the functions of faculty educational gardens and gardens significance for the educational process in elementary school, become familiar with the necessary tools and implements, with the recommended crop plants at primary school. Their knowledge and skills students will verify within a project teaching or integrated thematic instruction, which will work with children 2nd grade elementary school to faculty teaching garden. Teaching is complemented by practical experiments and observations in nature, which are designed to allow them to realize a limited instrumentation and show the possibilities of use for basic education.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The subject is focused on the application of professional natural science knowledge in the environment of everyday life in accordance with the principles of sustainable living. Practical teaching at the PdF MU model school garden (Kejbaly workplace) aims to prepare students both professionally and didactically for the teaching of key natural science and environmental concepts.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, students will be able to: - phenological observations performed during the spring and summer months; - carry out regular activities related to the care of the faculty teaching garden in the spring; - to ensure basic conditions and procedures for growing selection of garden plants; - identify a user to sort the vegetables, fruit, ornamentals, field; - propose a plan of sowing flower bed realizable combined with pupils 2nd grade elementary school; - implement and organize care for a combined bed with pupils 2nd grade elementary school; - work with professional literature study focused on the cultivation, processing and use of garden plants; - use appropriate work equipment, tools and maintain them; - observe technological discipline, hygiene and safety, provide first aid in case of injury in the garden, or. contact with toxic, allergenic or otherwise dangerous plants.
Syllabus
  • Syllabus of seminars: 1. Familiarization with the faculty teaching garden, principles of safety and health protection when working in the garden; the function of gardens and its importance for education in primary schools; basic natural processes and systems enabling life on Earth. 2. Vegetables - cultivation, health importance, planning and organization of work in the garden; seed and seedling, user sorting, crop rotation, construction (greenhouse, foil greenhouse, hothouse) - training of work skills - sowing, pre-cultivation, picking, planting; 3. Ornamental spring plants and herbs as an example of the life cycle of perennial herbs. 4. Fruit plants – division, origin, description, classification, propagation, - training of work and cultivation skills – treatment of fruit plants (cutting, grafting, vaccination); Field crops as an example of the life cycle of annual herbs (cereals, roots, legumes, oilseeds, spinning plants, fodder); 5. Practical teaching in the faculty's teaching garden - pre-netting of vegetable and ornamental beds, skills training - raking, weeding, measuring; 6. Practice with teaching in the garden - group micro-excursions with primary school pupils.
Literature
    required literature
  • STRUMHAUS, Zbyněk a Alena ZEMANOVÁ. Pěstitelské práce pro studium učitelství v 1.-4. ročníku ZŠ. Brno: Univerzita J.E. Purkyně, 1988.
  • KINCL, Miloslav. Základy rostlinné výroby pro učitele. Ostrava: Pedagogická fakulta, 1989.
  • STRUMHAUS, Zbyněk a Alena ZEMANOVÁ. Kurs pěstitelských prací pro studium učitelství 1.-4. ročníku ZŠ. Brno: Univerzita J.E. Purkyně, 1981.
  • DYTRTOVÁ, Radmila. Pěstitelství : pro 6.-9. ročník základních škol. Druhé, upravené vydání. Praha: Fortuna, 2003, 111 stran. ISBN 8071688576. info
  • Klíč ke květeně České republiky. Edited by Karel Kubát. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2002, 927 s. ISBN 8020008365. info
  • VODÁKOVÁ, Jitka. Pěstitelské práce. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1990, 238 s. ISBN 8004239765. info
    recommended literature
  • SLIPKA, Jiří, Miroslav SLÍPKA a Jiří PETERKA. Pokusy a praktické práce v pěstitelských pracích. 2., upr. vyd. České Budějovice: Jihočeská univerzita, 1997. ISBN 80-7040-231-8.
  • DAWLING, Pam. Sustainable market farming: intensive vegetable production on a few acres. Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers, c2013. ISBN 978-0-86571-716-9.
  • Kompletní návod k vytvoření ekozahrady a rodového statku. Photo by Jaroslav Svoboda. Vyd. 1. Praha: Smart Press, 2009, 341 s. ISBN 9788087049280. info
  • A-Z encyklopedie zahradních rostlin. Edited by Christopher Brickell, Translated by Věra Bidlová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Knižní klub, 2008, 1128 s. ISBN 9788024220697. info
  • DOSTÁLEK, Petr. Česká biozahrada. Olomouc: Fontana, 2000, 184 s. ISBN 808617946X. info
  • KLIKOVÁ, Gabriela. Biozahrada. 1. vyd. Praha: Zemědělské nakladatelství Brázda, 1992, 383 s. ISBN 8020902104. info
    not specified
  • ŠKARDOVÁ, Pavlína a Ondřej ŠKARDA. Pěstitelské práce 1: pro obor Učitelství pro 1. stupeň základních škol. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2006. Texty k distančnímu vzdělávání v rámci kombinovaného studia. ISBN 80-244-1194-6.
  • HAUBENHOFER, Dorit. Gartentherapie: Theorie - Wissenschaft - Praxis. [Brno: Lipka], c2013. ISBN 978-80-87604-41-0.
  • MEIXNER-KATZMANN, Karoline. Therapieraum Garten: Kinder fördern in und mit der Natur. [Okříšky: Chaloupky], c2014. ISBN 978-80-905613-7-3.
  • ŠKARDOVÁ, Pavlína a Ondřej ŠKARDA. Pěstitelské práce 2: pro obor Učitelství pro 1. stupeň základních škol. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2006. Texty k distančnímu vzdělávání v rámci kombinovaného studia. ISBN 80-244-1195-4.
  • HIEKE, Karel. Atlas pokojových rostlin. Translated by Petra Nerandžičová, Illustrated by Miroslav Pinc, Photo by Hele. České přeprac. a dopl. vy. Praha: Jan Vašut, 2003, 624 s. ISBN 8072361872. info
Teaching methods
fieldwork, experiential learning, reflective micro-performance, discussion
Assessment methods
Continuously: - processing of the phenological calendar (nature calendar); - preparation and implementation of the teaching program with pupils of the 2nd grade of elementary school in the faculty's teaching garden; - the student demonstrates the ability to apply acquired knowledge and skills during practical activities at the faculty's teaching garden. In conclusion: - written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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