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The article deals with activating methods for geography teaching in out-of-school environment in Slovakia, particularly in the Nitra City. Moreover, it focuses on the popularization of geography among different age categories via the activating methods such as didactic games and experiments. Activating methods lead teaching so that educational goals are achieved mainly on the basis of pupils' own activity with the emphasis being placed on solving problems. Teaching by exploration and discovery by pupils themselves...

The article focuses on the impact of underground brown coal and lignite mining and landslides on land use. The study area is represented by the HandlovГЎ town and municipality of Cige? (Western Slovakia) which are well-known in Slovakia for subsurface mining of brown coal and lignite. Furthermore, the study area is susceptible to landslides. The first mention about brown coal surface mining is from the year 1772 (HandlovГЎ) and the year 1784 (Cige?) although industrial coal mining began in 1909. At present, active...