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Working with Data from the Landscape Atlas of the Czech Republic: The Population Density Theme

Publication at Faculty of Science |
2010

Abstract

The aim of the article is to provide material from the Atlas of Landscape of the Czech Republic for geographical education and to offer several suggestions how to work with it. Pupils from the different school grades (elementary, secondary, tertiary) could develop a plenty of skills and abilities of various levels of difficulty on the example of the learning topic of population density, its regional differentiation in Czechia, its changes in time and its connection to landscape changes.

Pupils have been working with written, statistical, image sources of data, with maps and images of landscape. The problem themes are created to make pupils think in wider context of the observed phenomena and processes.

The themes have an interdisciplinary character (the overlap to history, civics, environmental education or art).