Vom grünen Klassenzimmer bis zum Schulgarten

The simple way to a green classroom and school garden - with a variety of teaching suggestions, practical tips, and planning aids.

Welcome to the green classroom!

Are you planning a school garden or want to transform your classroom into a green learning space in line with modern environmental education? But you’re unsure how to tackle the project and connect it with the curriculum? This volume helps you make the world a little greener with your elementary school children: Benefit from targeted and easily implementable teaching suggestions, practical tips, and planning aids for green projects in school.

Designing a school garden and strengthening environmental awareness

Interactive approach: All content is aimed at enabling children to experience, explore, and shape nature in a practical and discovery-oriented way. By getting to know many plants, animals, and life cycles, the curriculum area of nature and environment is covered for all grade levels with very simple ideas starting from the 1st grade. This volume encourages your students to gain hands-on experience in gardening in the school garden. In science classes, they can observe plants growing, learn more about native animals, and engage with the topic of species protection.

Research tasks, craft instructions, and much more!

Sowing, caring, harvesting, exploring - in addition to planting and building instructions, you will receive additional materials for your green school project: observation sheets, research tasks, experiment instructions, as well as further offerings like herb labels for download, craft instructions, recipes, and child-friendly literature and internet tips. We wish you much joy in discovering nature together!

The topics:

• Plants
• All about the school garden
• Mini gardens: raised beds, planting palettes, and container gardens
• Animals in the school garden
• From plants to harvest
• Plants.