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Humboldt brothers year
Course: Children experience nature
Learning area nature
Admission requirements
STEOP
Semester: 2
Orientation
Anthropocene
Aim
The core task of general studies is to support pupils in experiencing themselves as part of nature, in exploring the world, and in opening up the immediate and indirect environment in the sense of global responsibility and education for sustainable development (ESD). In this course, subject-specific scientific and didactic fundamentals of the reference discipline biology are taught in order to enable students to jointly develop and discuss basic questions of the human-nature relationship with pupils.
Content
- The human body (function and interaction of body parts, organs and senses, metabolism, sexuality)
- Health (physical and mental health promotion and maintenance; behaviour in the case of illness and accidents, first aid)
- Animals and plants (evolution; biodiversity, recognising, naming, and classifying native and non-native animal and plant species; parts and structure; reproduction, growth, development, usability)
- Environmental literacy, environmental education, and environmental protection (ESD); interrelationships between plants, animals, and the environment
- Simple biological and subject didactic models for cooperative forms of learning and self-directed learning (observing and determining, experimenting, and researching); demonstration experiments, project lessons, learning scenarios with a focus on the human–nature relationship
- Linguistic and methodological didactic means for the implementation of content-integrative science lessons and English lessons at the primary level
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The graduates ...
- have structured subject knowledge on the biological topics of humans, health, botany, and zoology for general studies at the primary level
- can present technical correlations, taking into account simplification appropriate for pupils
- have knowledge about the use of appropriate media in general studies at the primary level
- can relate and interpret theoretical approaches to the didactics of general studies and dimensions of the lifeworld of children
- can develop age-appropriate materials for pupils on the effects of human activities on ecosystems in the sense of education for sustainable development
- are familiar with simple biological and subject didactic models in order to include cooperative forms of learning and self-directed exploratory learningin the area of nature in their lesson planning
- are familiar with the implementation demonstration experiments, can plan project lessons, and are able to work out the human–nature relationship when developing learning scenarios
- have the necessary linguistic resources in the living foreign language and are familiar with suitable CLIL strategies in order to present exemplary areas of application in the correct language and with correct pronunciation/intonation and to guide science and language learning both implicitly and explicitly.
Supra-subject and transversal skills
- Environmental education
- Health promotion
- Sexuality education
- English
Teaching and learning methods
Lecture with integrated exercises
Languages
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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