General studies

Children discover living spaces

Ecosystems as spaces of sustainability

Admission requirements

none

Semester: 7

Orientation

Anthropocene

Focus

The future requires shared responsibility

Aim

Introducing students to the immediate and indirect environment in the sense of global responsibility and education for sustainable development is a core task of primary school material teaching. The focus of this course is on deepening the basic knowledge you have already acquired in the natural sciences. Using selected living spaces, different didactic methods of dealing with basic questions of the human-nature relationship are developed in order to stimulate transformative learning processes among students.

Content

• Domestic and global ecosystems from the worlds of children from the perspective of natural sciences
• Plants and animals in the (im)mediate environment (biodiversity, native and non-native plant and animal species; invasive species and their importance for ecosystems)
• Adaptation of the living and inanimate world to seasonal changes, environmental conditions and climate change
• Regional soil types (such as moist, loess, sandy soils) and their properties over time as well as their influence on (agricultural) management
• Conventional and Organic Agriculture in Climate Change: Food Production, National, International and Global Food Routes; Economy and mobility, consumer behavior, regionality and regional products
• Deepening biological and subject-didactic models for cooperative forms of learning and self-directed learning (observation and determination, experimentation and research); Demonstration experiments, project lessons, learning scenarios with a focus on the human-nature relationship; Learning at primary places of experience to promote transformative learning processes
• Child-friendly non-fiction texts in English on encounters with nature, ecological and biological connections and responsible behavior towards nature