Selected for piloting Green Classroom - Pulheimer Bach The “Green Classroom Pulheimer Bach” is an interdisciplinary integrative teaching concept which employs a gradual competence building approach by utilizing an outdoor learning and teaching environment in the close vicinity of participating schools. The project was developed against the background of...

KALIF - Concept outdoor learning in the forest The KALIF-project (out-of school studying in the forest) may be described as a concept to teach students the goals of sustainable development by sustainable learning. Sustainable learning is reached by the way the project is woven into the school curriculum “spirally”: Students may attend KALIF- cou...

Lake Investigation Aija Staskevica from Vecumnieki Primary School carried out a research with 1st grade students. The objective was to learn the procedure of a research and its steps. They started planning together to find out what was necessary to perform a research. Students suggested that the name of the researcher...

Project “Ecology” Project „Ecology” is an interdisciplinary program of science education. In frame of this project, all activities were focused on three main elements (water, air, ground). The main goals of the project were: supporting interest in science education among students, creative integration of various disc...

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...