Unit TEACHING OF BIOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
- Course
- Primary teacher education
- Study-unit Code
- GP004466
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- CFU
- 12
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2016
- Offered
- 2018/19
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa integrata
I MODULE - ORGANIC
| Code | GP004476 |
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| CFU | 6 |
| Teacher | Roberto Venanzoni |
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| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Discipline biologiche ed ecologiche |
| Academic discipline | BIO/06 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Language of instruction | Italian |
| Contents | Introduction to biology, origin of living organisms, living chemistry, living organisms organization. |
| Reference texts | Basic text: Sylvia S. Mader, Immagini e concetti della Biologia, Ed. Zanichelli |
| Educational objectives | Understanding the fundamental stages of the evolution and origin of organisms that have led to the present. |
| Prerequisites | The course provides alignment lessons on the topics discussed. |
| Teaching methods | Lectures, seminars on specific topics. |
| Learning verification modality | Oral examination and / or written test both in itinere and in the final. |
| Extended program | The great themes of biology: The origin of DNA, the origin of life. The origin of the cell. The prokaryotic cell: features. The eukaryotic cell: features The plant cell and animal differences. The main theories of biology: • Cellular Theory All cells originate from a cell. • Theory of genes • Evolutionary theory • Homeostasis theory • Ecosystem theory Cell division: crossing over (meiosis mitosis) Asexual (vegetative) and sexuate reproduction Ontogenetic cycles. The organization of living beings: unicellular, multicellular, troll, cormus (in plants) The different domains (bacteria, archaea, eucarya) and kingdoms of the living (protists, fungi, animals, plants) |
II FORM - ENVIRONMENTAL
| Code | GP004477 |
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| CFU | 6 |
| Teacher | Roberto Venanzoni |
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| Hours |
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| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Discipline biologiche ed ecologiche |
| Academic discipline | BIO/06 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Language of instruction | Italian |
| Contents | Education-Environmental Information: Opening on the great past and present environmental issues that have affected and affect the entire terrestrial surface: Ozone hole, acid rain, climate change, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, deforestation, sustainable agriculture, food resources, land use, renewable and non-renewable resources, energy, waste, sustainable development, etc. Further Education Environmental Education: This part of the program seeks to address the issue of how environmental education can help mitigate changes through school education, thus enabling new generations to become more aware and aware of environmental issues: Examples of environmental education projects, CEAs (Environmental education centers). |
| Reference texts | Books and material provided by the teacher. Scientific literature, sitography. |
| Educational objectives | Knowledge and environmental education of the great past and present environmental issues that have affected and affect the entire terrestrial surface. |
| Prerequisites | The course provides alignment lessons on the topics discussed. |
| Teaching methods | Lectures, seminars on specific topics. |
| Learning verification modality | Oral examination and / or written test both in itinere and in the final. |
| Extended program | Environmental topics: Definition of Environment Definition of Ecosystem Definition of Biodiversity Definition of Agrobiodiversity and Agroecosystem Agenda 21: main goals in brief Definition of Ecology Greenhouse effect: in short causes and effects Definition of Sustainable Development Agenda 21: Definition Conservation of nature and its resources Ethical basics of Nature Conservation Sustainability and sustainable development: definitions Sustainability and sustainable development: examples The big problematics regarding energy: renewable and non-renewable sources Global changes Renewable and non-renewable resources Examples of global changes Sustainable development: what is meant for s.s.? Tokyo Conference: year and shortly the goals 5 Important Points for the Conservation of Earth's Resources at the Core of Sustainable Development Rio de Janeiro Conference: year and shortly the goals Kyoto Conference: year and shortly the goals Johannesbourg Conference: year and shortly the goals |