Tematický atlas ako inovatívna učebná pomôcka na hodinách geografie na základných školách

Abstract

Like other scientific disciplines, geography is currently facing pressure in the field of introducing modern elements into teaching, growing digitalization, in the way of obtaining and availability of an ever-increasing amount of information, pouring on students and teachers through mass media, especially social networks and the Internet. Approaching them critically, evaluating them and properly disseminating them appears to be a key skill that teachers should teach students given the availability and easy access to such information. Despite this easy access to practically any information, it is becoming more and more difficult to reach from a number of available sources for one that, on the one hand, describes the topic of interest, but at the same time presents information comprehensively, clearly, expertly and at the same time in an engaging and, of course, understandable way for the target group, in our case the elementary school pupils. The author tries to show in the following article how not to get lost in the information age, not to fall behind the opportunities it brings and how to present the curriculum of the geography of the region in a contemporary, but at the same time traditional way.