Save our nature – Let’s explore together: Videos for primary

Whether for teaching at home or for differentiated instruction in the classroom, experiment and explanatory videos offer a helpful supplement for teachers, allowing them to show experiments and scientific phenomena.

In our current project, 15 primary school teachers from ten countries are developing experiment and explanatory videos on the topics of sustainability, environment and nature protection. The teaching videos encourage enquiry-based learning and offer explanations for phenomena.

These videos will be accompanied by additional materials for teachers containing experiment guides and worksheets, as well as explaining the scientific background to the experiments. The materials will also contain additional information on differentiated learning, career orientation in primary schools and the connection to sustainability.

The first project meeting took place in April 2023 in Berlin. The second meeting took place in March 2024 in Prague. Additional virtual meeting took place in September and November 2023.

The teaching material will be published in both English and German in early 2025.

Contents

The teaching material will cover five topics: climate change, energy, plants, recycling, and water.

A total of 19 different experiments will be published.

The experiments are aimed at various age groups and levels of difficulty.

Aims of this project

• 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.

Outlook on the results

The teaching videos and additional materials created in this project will be published as free-of-charge digital materials in both English and German. Here is a little sneak peek of what the material will look like on our website: 

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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