Save our nature – Let’s explore together: Videos for primary
Whether for teaching at home or for differentiated instruction in the classroom, explanatory videos offer a helpful supplement for teachers, allowing them to show experiments and scientific phenomena.
Science on Stage Germany invited primary teachers from all over Europe to participate in a project on the development of explanatory and experiment videos. The topic of the videos is "Save our nature".
Together, teachers from nine countries developed these teaching materials over the course of two years. They include learning videos on environmental topics for primary school, ages 4 to 12, that encourage both inquiry-based learning and provide explanations for phenomena. Additional materials and instructions accompany the videos.
The first project meeting took place in April 2023 in Berlin. The second meeting took place in March 2024 in Prague.
The publication event
On 8 April 2025, Science on Stage Germany published the new teaching materials in a virtual launch event. During the event, the authors and project coordinators provided a direct insight into the content and how to use it.
Watch the event here:
About the project
The teaching material covers five topics:
A total of 18 different experiments are published.
The experiments are aimed at various age groups between 4 and 12 years and diverse levels of difficulty.
The aims of this project were:
- Create explanatory and experiment videos by teachers for teachers about the topic “Save our nature by understanding it!”
- Develop accompanying materials for primary school for differentiated teaching approaches
- Promote communication skills, teamwork and creativity of the children
We want to further qualify primary school teachers and show them another approach to STEM subjects so that they can enthuse pupils for these subjects. We also want to provide primary school teachers with knowledge on how to incorporate digital elements into their lessons.
The coordinators
Heidrun Boll
Primary teacher at Berta Hummel-Schule and Schülerforschungszentrum Bad Saulgau, Germany
Jitka Houfková
Teacher at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Soraya Cornelius
Physics and STEM teacher at Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium Nagold, Germany; PhD candidate at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, research topic explanatory videos
This project is supported by
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