Leinfelder Year

Course:

Children are on the trail of nature

Research-discovery learning in primary school

Admission requirements

none

Semester: 7

Orientation

Anthropocene

Focus

The future requires shared responsibility

Aim

Bringing students closer to experiencing significant natural phenomena and supporting them in developing scientific thinking is achieved through didactics that emphasize learning through research and discovery. The course focuses on learning at primary places of experience and conveys constructive didactic principles and methods based on the students' previous knowledge, which are intended to encourage primary school students to assume, question, reflect, argue and conclude using examples from real-life environments.

Content

• Research-discovery learning in the open field/at extracurricular learning locations: Excursions as a method of scientific-phenomenon-oriented teaching in primary school
• The influence of humans on nature with regard to the use, change and design of natural and living spaces in the sense of environmental education for sustainable development; Comparison of scientific concepts with children's everyday ideas
• Analysis of fundamental connections in selected natural and designed habitats using specialist literature and their inclusion in science lessons as a foundation for theory-based learning opportunities
• Planning and carrying out tests and experiments in the context of environmental education for sustainable development
• Special features of the didactic and methodological design of science teaching at primary level, including social skills, diversity skills and gender skills (particularly regarding gender equality)
• Linguistic and methodological-didactic means for conducting content-integrative science lessons and English lessons (CLIL)