The Green Professions Project The project Green Professions on Land was prepared and organised by a Czech NGO Cmelak – Spolecnost pratel prirody and partially run with a German partner. It deals with a decrease of young people’s interest in so-called green fields of study, such as agriculture or forestry. The project aims to rai...

Selected for piloting The Nature Calendar With the nature calendar scholars investigate how nature reacts to climate change. Natural processes, such as flowering, falling of leaves, start of bird migration, take place every year around the same period. This so called “nature calendar” of species is strongly influenced by temperature, precip...

Selected for piloting The White Ruta Puida, a teacher from Daugavpils Centra Secondary School, developed a lesson on substance recognition. Every day at home, we see a member of our family use various ingredients for cooking: salt, sugar, flour, etc. Especially, the three mentioned are similar to each other (they are white powders...

Water Droplet Ingrīda Brizga, a teacher from Cesis Primary School Nr. 2, developed an integrated lesson “Water Droplet”, including mathematics, chemistry, science, physics, and social studies. Students detected water droplet mass and volume using electronic scales and calculator. They computed the amount of water...