Unit GEOGRAPHY LABORATORY
- Course
- Primary teacher education
- Study-unit Code
- 40998101
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Fabio Fatichenti
- Teachers
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- Fabio Fatichenti
- Hours
- 15 ore - Fabio Fatichenti
- CFU
- 1
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2016
- Offered
- 2019/20
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline geografiche
- Academic discipline
- M-GGR/01
- Type of study-unit
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian. The attendance to the classes is highly suggested to the international and Erasmus students who opt for this course. Upon request some didactic documents may be recommended in foreign languages too (English , French, Spanish). For any clarification please contact the teacher before the lessons start.
- Contents
- Italy’s Topographic Map; introduction to the reading and interpretation of maps and other tools such as atlases, thematic maps, statistical data.
- Reference texts
- E. Lavagna, G. Lucarno, Geocartografia. Guida alla lettura delle carte geotopografiche, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2014.
- Educational objectives
- At the end of the course the student knows the geographical and cartographic representations and how to use them in an educational context, classroom or laboratory.
- Prerequisites
- In order to be able to understand and to know how to tackle the course, students must have the basic notions of the environmental context and organization of the territory, either in physical term and regarding the human activities related to it (these are notions that the student should have already acknowledged in his/her school curriculum). Basic requirement is also the possession of knowledge in Regional Geography.
- Teaching methods
- The course usually includes guided surveys and tutorials at Cartographic Laboratory, Via del Verzaro 49.
- Other information
- Attendance is recommended. Students that, for justified reasons, are unable to attend the lessons must agree with the teacher a specific study program.
- Learning verification modality
- The exam consists in the realization of a learning unit related to the topics covered during the course.
- Extended program
- Italy’s Topographic Map; introduction to the reading and interpretation of maps and other tools such as atlases, thematic maps, statistical data.