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Anthropocene
Course: Children are on the trail of technology
Didactics of explorative–discovering learning in the learning area of technology
Admission requirements
STEOP, at least 100 ECTS-CP
Semester: 7
Orientation
Anthropocene
Focus
Encounters with nature
Aim
Technology permeates and shapes all areas of human life. The focus of the course is teaching pupils to think analytically and to understand technical principles and processes as well as initiating processes of understanding through problem-solving action, communicating, and reflecting on technology. Based on the prior knowledge of the students, didactic principles and methods are taught using the physical sub-areas of thermodynamics, electricity, and magnetism in the context of the Anthropocene.
Content
- Consolidation of basic knowledge of physics in the areas of energy and heat in conjunction with specialist literature
- Technical applications (such as mechanics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics and heat engines, entropy and efficiency)
- Planning, conducting, and evaluation of experiments based on the formation and verification of hypotheses
- Research, presentation, and age-appropriate explanation and communication of scientific–technical content
- Effects of technical action using examples from everyday life and nature in the context of child-friendly economic and consumer education in the Anthropocene
- Growing demands for space and mobility in society and the associated use of resources and their impact on nature
- Communication of causal relationships between the use of fossil and renewable energy sources and their impact on the climate in the context of the Anthropocene
- Linguistic and methodological didactic means for the implementation of content-integrative science-oriented lessons and English lessons at the primary level
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Graduates ...
- are familiar with the scientific and didactic fundamentals in the fields of heat and energy as well as relevant technical applications
- can form hypotheses and test them with the help of experiments
- are able to research and present scientific and technical content and to communicate it appropriately to the target group
- can name the effects of growing mobility demands on nature and describe them in an age-appropriate manner
- are able to present the effects of different types of energy use on the climate in an age-appropriate manner and prepare them for lessons
- have the necessary linguistic resources in the living foreign language English and are familiar with appropriate CLIL strategies in order to guide science and language learning both implicitly and explicitly and can provide child-friendly guidance in order to carry out observations and experiments, understand developmental processes, and acquire knowledge.
Supra-subject and transversal skills
- Language education
- Environmental education
- Economic and consumer education
- English
Teaching and learning methods
Seminar work
Languages
Semester hours per week
3
ECTS-AP
5
Category
Focus
Type of course
Seminar (pi)
Type of assessment
digit grade
Performance records
- Oral partial performance
- Written partial performance/seminar paper
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