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General studies
Course: Children experience environmental phenomena
Physical, chemical, and technical fundamentals for general studies
Admission requirements
STEOP
Semester: 4
Orientation
Anthropocene
Aim
The goals of general studies are perceiving natural phenomena and developing resilient ideas and concepts. In this course, subject-specific scientific and subject-specific didactic fundamentals of the reference disciplines physics, chemistry, and technology (sub-discipline mechanics) are taught in order to be able to accompany and guide pupils in exploring and dealing with basic questions of the human–nature relationship. The students link subject didactic research results with their own practical school experiences in order to acquire design skills in the sense of the Conceptual Change model.
Content
- Materials and their changes
- Forces and their effects
- Stability in technical structures
- Fundamentals of optics
- Energy and matter
- Subject didactic fundamentals; introduction to physical, chemical, and technical working methods in the context of the primary level
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The graduates ...
- have structured specialist knowledge of basic physical, chemical, and technical subjects
- can explain complex issues in simple language for the primary school age group
- are familiar with children’s ideas about scientific phenomena and can link to these in various didactic settings
- are familiar with suitable media for imparting knowledge in general studies and can use them in a supportive manner, taking into account individual learning requirements
- are familiar with subject-specific and subject-didactic models for cooperative, self-directed forms, of learning
- are able to guide science learning both implicitly and explicitly.
Supra-subject and transversal skills
- Diversity/inclusion
- Media education
Teaching and learning methods
Seminar work with workshop character
Languages
German, English
Semester hours per week
3
ECTS-AP
5
Category
Scientific discipline / subject didactics
Type of course
Lecture with workshop (pi)
Type of assessment
digit grade
Performance records
- Oral partial performance
- Written partial performance
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