Rolul activităților practice în creșterea randamentului învățării geografiei

Abstract

Geography, as a science, arose from the practical need of humans to observe, to know, to understand the natural phenomena and processes existing on the surface of the earth's crust aiming at the interactions and relationships between the Earth's geospheres. The transition from theoretical knowledge to the formation of skills specific to geography, to the formation of profound skills and abilities useful for everyday life can be achieved through practical and applied activities that can take place either in school, during geography classes or outside or extracurricular, in the natural environment. Through practical work, the efficiency of learning geography increases and is fixed, the theoretical knowledge from the past or the new ones is consolidated. Given their instructive-educational importance in current education, the fact that students are confronted with everyday realities increases the need to use practical and applied activities in education, especially in the discipline of geography. The efficient teaching of geography is related to the way of organizing the educational process by each teacher, to the realization of a connection between the component elements of this process, more concretely of: objectives, content, methods, teaching means, didactic strategy, students' activity and appreciation of results.