2017/2018

2019/2020

DM270

BIO/02 (SYSTEMATIC BOTANICS)

DEPARTMENT OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

NATURAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES

PERCORSO COMUNE

3°

2nd semester (02/03/2020 - 12/06/2020)

6

48 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

SAVINO ELENA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Students must possess the basic notions of biology: living beings; the cell; cellular reproduction; autotrophic and heteretrophic organisms; classification of living beings; evolution of living beings; the living and the environment (trophic networks); the human body (knowledge of anatomy and physiology at least at lower middle school level).

The aim of the course is to highlight the strategies that can be implemented to facilitate and stimulate the learning of first and second grade secondary school students through some of the basic concepts of natural sciences.
Therefore, as regards the teaching of sciences in lower and upper secondary school, all the specific points of a Learning Unit will be developed.
As a result, students are expected to be able to independently perform a U.D.A on a scientific content chosen from among those proposed for the aforementioned competition classes.

Introduction to the Course: how to recognize and develop the fundamental qualities to teach, ie knowledge, competence, enthusiasm and motivation.

Teaching methods: from the frontal lesson to the flipped classroom.
Aware selection of teaching support material: textbooks and different types of multimedia material.

Develop a Learning Learning Unit (U.D.A.): mental representations, prerequisites, objectives, contents, teaching strategies, experimental part, verification and analysis of the results obtained.
Each point of the U.D.A. is deepened through the exemplification of a scientific content. The contents are as follow.
The living beings. The cell; genetics and cell reproduction. From biological molecules to the development of living beings through evolutionary processes of adaptation to the environment. Evolutionary theories. Levels of organization of living systems. Human evolution. Tissues, organs and apparatus of animals and plants. Useful organisms to stimulate macroscopic observations and observations on the environment. Fungi, useful organisms for an approach to microbiology.

Through botanical and mycology laboratories, the experimental approach of science teaching will be addressed: definition of objectives, planning of the experiment or exit in the field, materials and methods, collection of observations and their discussion in order to understand the meaning of the activity carried out and to acquire competence on the subject under discussion.

It is expected to carry out mainly interactive lessons with students: the teacher poses a problem that students, individually or in groups, debate. At the end a discussion comparing the different approaches is carried out. The teacher intends to use the "flipped classroom" or "problem solving" methods so that students acquire these teaching methods through their personal experience.

Some lessons will be held by teachers of the first and second grade secondary school.

The frontal lesson will be limited, where necessary, to the recovery of scientific contents indispensable to face the U.D.A.

- Pdf of the lessons uploaded on the Kiro portal.
- In-depth articles chosen from those most recently published.
- Indications of selected websites.

Oral exam in which the presentation of a teaching unit on a topic agreed between the student and the teacher is discussed.
They are evaluated:
- the choice of the class context to which the student intends to propose the U.D.A.;
- the methodological approach;
- the completeness of the U.D.A.;
- identification of critical points and their resolutions;
- the specific knowledge of the topics covered in the U.D.A.

Taking into consideration the interactive and experimental approach of the course, it is highly recommended to attend classes