Course: Selected Chapters from Plant Cultivation

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Course title Selected Chapters from Plant Cultivation
Course code KBI/8KP
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Vácha Zbyněk, PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Chmelová Štěpánka, Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
School teaching gardens, their importance and basic equipment. Principles of safety and health protection when working in the school garden and when working with tools. Types of tools (tillage, maintenance, plant protection, watering, sowing and planting, harvesting) and its use. Organization of work in the school garden during the school year. Corners of nature in school classrooms and their equipment. Growing and treatment of houseplants, vegetative propagation of houseplants. Material preparation for science teaching. Model plants for teaching in schools - houseplants, vegetables, ornamental plants, medicinal plants. Creating a seed collection - practical implementation. Rules for establishing a herbarium and its practical creation (herbarium of weeds, grasses). Practical work - treatment of cultivated plants, cultivation experiments and observations, processing and conservation of plant products. Basics of ecological plant growing, principles of establishing wildlife gardens.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Monitoring, Demonstration, Skills training, Excursion, Experiment, Project-based learning, Practical training
Learning outcomes
Extension of knowledge and skills acquired in the course Plant Cultivation I and Plant Cultivation and Its Curriculum and Instruction II.
Gaining new knowledge about selected species of cultivated plants. To expand the skill and skill in practical activities while working in the school garden in the care and care of cultivated plants.
Prerequisites
no

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance assessment, Seminar work, Interim evaluation

Gaining new knowledge about selected species of cultivated plants. To expand the skill and skill in practical activities while working in the school garden in the care and care of cultivated plants.
Recommended literature
  • Brickell, Christopher. A-Z encyklopedie zahradních rostlin. Vyd. 1. Praha : Knižní klub, 2008. ISBN 978-80-242-2069-7.
  • Burešová a kol. (2007). Učíme se v zahradě. Chaloupky o.p.s. Kněžice, 443 s.
  • Chmelová, Š.:. Pěstitelství na ZŠ I.- Didaktika výuky, PF JU České Budějovice, 2010.
  • Kindersley D. (2009). Vypěstuj a sněz. Bratislava: Slovart..
  • Křivánková, D. (2016). Praktická péče o školní zahradu společně se žáky. Jihlava: Chaloupky..
  • Ryplová, R., Chmelová, Š., Vácha Z. (2019). Školní zahrady ve výuce. Jindřichův Hradec: Epika..
  • Vodáková J. a kol.:. Pěstitelské práce, SPN Praha. 1990.
  • Williams, D.R a Brown, J.D. (2012). Learning gardens and sustainability education. New York: Taylor& Francis..


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