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Leinfelder Year
Course: Children discover the plants in their environment
Botany – geology – agriculture
Admission requirements
STEOP, at least 100 ECTS-CP
Semester: 7
Orientation
Anthropocene
Focus
Encounters with nature
Aim
Bringing pupils closer to the direct and indirect environment in the sense of global responsibility and education for sustainable development is a core task of general studies at the primary level. The focus of this course is on the consolidation of acquired basic knowledge in the subject areas of botany, geology, and agriculture. On the basis of selected habitats, different subject didactic methods of dealing with basic questions of the human–nature relationship are developed in order to stimulate transformative learning processes in pupils.
Content
- Plants in the (in)direct environment (consolidation in the areas of biodiversity, native and non-native plant species; development from pollen to plant: different forms of seed dispersal using selected examples, plant germination)
- Adaptation of flora to seasonal change, environmental conditions, and climate change (phenology and hibernation strategies)
- Regional soil types (e.g. wet, loess, sandy soils) and their characteristics over time as well as their influence on (agricultural) cultivation
- Conventional and organic agriculture in a changing climate: Food production; national, international and global foodways; economics and mobility, consumer behaviour, regionality and regional products
- Consolidation of biological and subject didactic models for cooperative forms of learning and self-directed learning (observation and determination, experimenting and researching); demonstration experiments, project teaching, learning scenarios with a focus on the human-nature relationship; learning at primary experience sites to promote transformative learning processes
- English-language factual texts suitable for children on encounters with nature, ecological and biological contexts, and responsible behaviour towards nature
show detailsshow lessLearning outcomes/skills
The graduates ...
- can reproduce and apply their extended subject knowledge in the fields of botany and geology
- are familiar with the strategies that plants have to adapt to environmental conditions, climatic changes, and seasonal change
- are familiar with the fundamentals of food production and consumption and are able to prepare sustainability topics in an age-appropriate manner
- can carry out simple trials and experiments in connection with biological knowledge acquisition and in compliance with the necessary safety measures
- are able to teach subject-specific content in an age-appropriate manner and oriented towards the lifeworld of children
- are able to integrate primary experiential sites into lesson planning to promote transformative learning
- are familiar with the English vocabulary for age-appropriate general studies and can take into account the different performance levels of the learners in content-integrative general studies by means of child-appropriate factual texts.
Supra-subject and transversal skills
- 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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