Educational Practice of Students Majoring in Ecology

3.6.2024

Traditionally, the spring academic semester at the Department of Landscape Gardening and Ecology ends with educational practices for the first and second-year bachelor’s students. 

The general ecological educational practice for the first-year students majoring in “Ecology” belongs to research and practical activities, and therefore is of great importance in the professional training of students majoring in 101 Ecology. Summer training practice is the final stage of studying the educational components “Ecology of Plants with the Basics of Botany” and “Ecology of Animals with the Basics of Zoology”, “General Ecology and Neoecology”. 

The purpose of educational practice is to expand and deepen knowledge of the specified disciplines; practical consolidation of theoretical knowledge acquired during lectures, practical classes and independent work by students; study of individual species of plants and animals, their groups, consolidation of ideas about life forms, ontogenesis, age and seasonal changes in the morpho-anatomical structure of plants, peculiarities of species composition of fauna, distribution of plant and animal species depending on ecological conditions of existence.

The main task of the educational practice in the first year is to master the basic methods of field botanical, zoological, ecological research and methods of identifying plants and animals in the field, rules for documenting the results of field observations, camera processing of collected data; acquiring knowledge and experience regarding the basic principles of organization and methods of conducting independent scientific research.

Practice involves the scientific work of students due to the mastery of educational elements aimed at carrying out their own scientific field research.

The first-year ecologists conducted a study of various phytocenoses, collected illustrative materials of their own observations, which they reported during the defense of reports on educational practice.

Department of Landscape Gardening and Ecology