Goal 15 of the Agenda 2030: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
Biodiversity and healthy ecosystems are the foundations of our life: mangrove forests protect coasts from floods, insects pollinate the plants we eat, and rainforests convert CO² into oxygen. That's why the rapid destruction of biodiversity is a serious problem. Have you ever thought of how important even the smallest creatures are for our survival on Earth? And how we ourselves can play a part in protecting this great biodiversity? This and much more is what the students learn in our project weeks and project days on the topic of SDG 15 - Life on Land! Here you can read short reports on the projects and see some of the digital results the children have produced.
In the second week of July, the Grundschule am Buntzelberg was all about Grünauer Forst and a very special little animal: The heath fritillary. Through games, quizzes and a trip to Grünauer Forst, the children learnt a lot about biodiversity and its importance for our survival. Read more here and watch a stop-motion film they created themselves.
For five days, the pupils at Andersen Primary School were able to get to know an often underestimated animal - the grasshopper. Not only did they get to know the animal up close in the classroom and go on an excursion to the neighbourhood in search of it, they also learned all about its importance and its role in a functioning ecosystem and how we can protect it. Click here for the detailed report.
At Wilhelm von Humboldt Community School in Berlin, our project week on the topic of "Understanding and Preserving Biodiversity" went into the second round. An excursion to the learning biotope at Plötzensee was an essential part of the project. Moreover they produced their own song and creative comics.
Our project week with the third grade of the Phönix Primary School on the topic of biodiversity and species protection is coming to an end! The children learned a lot about biodiversity and how it can be protected. Here you can listen to the song they have created.
An exciting project week at Ringelnatz Grundschule (Ringelnatz Primary School) is coming to an end! Using the wolf as an example, the children explored the topic of biodiversity in a very concrete way. Only recently, wolves were reintroduced into the wild in Germany - and this allows us to observe how the extinction or growth of an animal species affects an ecosystem in a very concrete way.