Didactic Proposals and Assessment Designing for Geography Teaching/Learning at School
Semester: 6th, 8th | Optional | ECTS: 5.0
Module leaders: Elias Mavromatidis, Nikolas Metaxides
Module Objectives
Modern man is faced in his daily life with a number of dilemmas, which are related to Geography. The development of spatial skills plays a big role in everyday life as spatial literacy (eg. how one will go to work, what clothes to wear, how to travel, etc.) seems to have the same value as all other types of literacy (linguistic, mathematical, etc.).
Within the Certificate of Pedagogical and Teaching Adequacy, the Department of Geography offers the course “Teaching suggestions and evaluation in the course of Geography in Education”.
The objective of the course is for students to form a thorough view of the teaching of Geography and to gain empirical teaching experience.
The aim of the course is for students to gain a deep insight into the teaching of geography and gain empirical teaching experience.
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
• Design and develop a teaching scenario by applying specific strategies, selecting appropriate supervision activities and tools and presenting a complete lesson plan.
• Implement lessons based on the lesson plan they have organized and with emphasis on modern teaching methods and techniques in the course of the internship.
• Design an assessment by choosing from a wide range of techniques, such as: multiple choice questions, development questions, matching, filling in blanks, etc.
• Also evaluate the teachings of their colleagues.
Course Contents
The course content includes means, suggestions and practices for teaching geography:
- The Earth as a celestial body and as a planet in the solar system: geometric shape – size / dimensions of the Earth, position of the Earth in the solar system, basic movements of the Earth and consequent phenomena and phenomena mainly related to the rotation and the orbit of the Earth and directly related to the division of the Earth into zones, the measurement of time and the units of time (horizon, sunrise-sunset, terrestrial time, hour, day, night, seasons, calendar).
- Representation of space – Cartography – Geographical coordinates – Use of maps in everyday life.
- Division of the natural environment into sections: Atmosphere – composition of the atmosphere – climate – climate change, Hydrosphere -water in nature – Oceans and seas, Lithosphere-interior of the Earth-Forces (endogenous – exogenous) that shape the surface of the Earth- Biosphere.
- The natural environment of Europe: geomorphology, seismic and volcanic activity, climate, vegetation, etc.
- Humans and their activities: Population of the earth, its geographical distribution, rural and urban population, where cities are built, why they were built where they were built, what enlargement of cities means for people, their activities and their lives, what are human resources as opposed to natural resources and the connection of the natural resources (sun, winds, hydrocarbons, water, etc.), with the elements of the artificial environment.
- The inhabitants of Europe and their economic activities: Europe, the EU, Greece in Europe, the population of Europe, the population of Greece, the cultures of Europe, the cities from Europe and Greece (common elements and differences), the peoples of the Balkans. Production sectors in Europe (primary, secondary, tertiary), transport networks, economic relations in Europe. The production sectors of Greece.
Teaching and Assessment
The teaching method is consisting of two hours attending lectures, presentation and extensive commentary of representative “geographical topics / sections” based on the content of the course and one hour for practicing and laboratory work on weekly basis.
The basic Assessment method of the course relies on the submission of lesson plans, worksheets and teaching in the classroom.
Undergraduate Program of Studies
1st Year
FIRST STUDY CYCLE
1st Semester | Winter | 30 ECTS
- Physical Geography | C | 5
- Historical Geography | C | 5
- Elementary Economics for Geographers | C | 5
- Introduction to Informatics | C | 5
- Introduction to Human Geography | C | 5
- Foreign Language Ι | FL | 5
2st Semester | Spring | 30 ECTS
- Statistical Analysis for Geographers | C | 5
- Social Geography | C | 5
- Introduction to Cartography | C | 5
- Environment and Humankind | C | 5
- Academic skills and methodology of scientific writing | C | 5
- Foreign Language ΙΙ | FL | 5
2nd Year
FIRST STUDY CYCLE
3rd Semester | Winter | 30 ECTS
- Environmental Management | C | 5
- Thematic Cartography | C | 5
- Qualitative Methods of Analysis in Geography | C | 5
- Economic Geography | C | 5
- Population Geography & Demography | C | 5
- Meteorology-Climatology | C | 5
4th Semester | Spring | 30 ECTS
- Political Geography | C | 5
- Urban Geography | C | 5
- Rural Geography | C | 5
- Photointerpretation-Remote Sensing | C | 5
- Hydrology – Water Resources management | C | 5
- Environmental Impact Assessment | C | 5
3rd Year
FIRST STUDY CYCLE
5th Semester | Winter | 30 ECTS
- Regional Development | C | 5
- Cultural Geography | C | 5
- Spatial Analysis | C | 5
- Geographical Information Systems I | C | 5
- Regional Planning | C | 5
- Oceanography | C | 5
SECOND STUDY CYCLE
6th Semester | Spring | 30 ECTS
- Geographical Project | C | 5
- Geomorphology | C | 5
- 4 Elective Modules | Ε | 4x5
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Set Ι - Physical Geography
- Climate Change | Ε | 5
- Coastal Geomorphology | Ε | 5
- Biogeography | Ε | 5
- Quaternary Geology | Ε | 5
- Environmental Management Tools | Ε | 5
- Management of Natural Disasters | Ε | 5
- Geomorphological Mapping | Ε | 5
- Renewable Energy Sources | Ε | 5
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Set ΙΙ - Human Geography
- Spatial Economics | Ε | 5
- Inequality, Discrimination and Sociospatial Hierarchies | Ε | 5
- Location Applications | Ε | 5
- Geographies of Poverty and Social Exclusion | Ε | 5
- Historical Geography of Ancient and Modern Times | Ε | 5
- Population: Economy and Politics | Ε | 5
- International Migration | Ε | 5
- The Economic History of a Globalized World | Ε | 5
- Special Topics in Economic Geography | Ε | 5
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Set ΙΙΙ - Spatial Planning
- Sustainable Urban Development | Ε | 5
- Safe Cities | E | 5
- Urban-Spatial Planning | E | 5
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Set IV - Geoinformatics
- Geographical Information Systems ΙΙ | 5
- Geoinformatics Applications Development | Ε | 5
- GNSS Technology and Navigation | Ε | 5
- Special Topics in Spatial Analysis | Ε | 5
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Additional Modules
- Placement | Ε | 10
- Geography Didactics | Ε | 5
- Themes in Geography | Ε | 5
- Didactic Proposals and Assessment Designing for Geography Teaching/Learning at School | Ε | 5
- Foreign Language Elective Ι | Ε | 5
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4th Year
SECOND STUDY CYCLE
7th Semester | Winter | 30 ECTS
- 6 Εlective Modules | Ε | 6x5
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Set Ι - Physical Geography
- Environmental Policy | E | 5
- Waste Management in the Circular Economy | E | 5
- Geoarchaeology | E | 5
- Fluvial Geomorphology | E | 5
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Set ΙΙ - Human Geography
- Geography of Globalised Production Networks | E | 5
- Geography of the European Union | E | 5
- Special Topics in Spatial Economic Analysis | E | 5
- Geopolitics | E | 5
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Set ΙΙΙ - Spatial Planning
- Land Policy | E | 5
- Geography of Transport and Infrastructure | E | 5
- Spatial Analysis Application in Real Estate Management | E | 5
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Set IV - Geoinformatics
- Remote Sensing Applications | E | 5
- Applied GIS | E | 5
- Statistical and Numerical Methods | E | 5
- Geoinformation in Environmental Managment | E | 5
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Additional Modules
- Placement | Ε | 10
- Themes in Geography | Ε | 5
- Foreign Language Elective IΙ | Ε | 5
8th Semester | Spring | 30 ECTS
- 2 Εlective modules | Ε | 2x5
- Dissertation | Ε | 20
or alternatively
- 6 Εlective Modules | Ε | 6x5
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Set Ι - Physical Geography
- Climate Change | Ε | 5
- Coastal Geomorphology | Ε | 5
- Biogeography | Ε | 5
- Quaternary Geology | Ε | 5
- Environmental Management Tools | Ε | 5
- Management of Natural Disasters | Ε | 5
- Geomorphological Mapping | Ε | 5
- Renewable Energy Sources | Ε | 5
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Set ΙΙ - Human Geography
- Spatial Economics | Ε | 5
- Inequality, Discrimination and Sociospatial Hierarchies | Ε | 5
- Location Applications | Ε | 5
- Geographies of Poverty and Social Exclusion | Ε | 5
- Historical Geography of Ancient and Modern Times | Ε | 5
- Population: Economy and Politics | Ε | 5
- International Migration | Ε | 5
- The Economic History of a Globalized World | Ε | 5
- Special Topics in Economic Geography | Ε | 5
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Set ΙΙΙ - Spatial Planning
- Sustainable Urban Development | Ε | 5
- Safe Cities | E | 5
- Urban-Spatial Planning | E | 5
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Set IV - Geoinformatics
- Geographical Information Systems ΙΙ | 5
- Geoinformatics Applications Development | Ε | 5
- GNSS Technology and Navigation | Ε | 5
- Special Topics in Spatial Analysis | Ε | 5
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Additional Modules
- Placement | Ε | 10
- Geography Didactics | Ε | 5
- Themes in Geography | Ε | 5
- Didactic Proposals and Assessment Designing for Geography Teaching/Learning at School | Ε | 5
- Foreign Language Elective Ι | Ε | 5
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E-mail: geosec@hua.gr
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