EARTH LEARNING IDEAS FOR GERMAN SCHOOLS

Earth Learning Ideas is a collection of ideas for teaching geoscience issues at school. Around 100 ideas are published already. Every month, a new idea is developed. The ideas allow a lot of students activity, need only common materials, focus on central geoscience topics and foster metacognition skills.

The ideas are developed mainly by the University Keele, United Kingdom, under the guidance of Prof. Chris King, Peter Kennett and Thomas McGuire. International geoscientists support this work.

The ideas are published in English language. They are publicly available by internet: www.earthlearning.com. So far there are translations into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Chinese (Mandarin). Most of the work is done by voluntary effort. The whole project is supported by the International Geoscience Education Organisation (IGEO).

The Leibniz University of Hannover (department for geography education) and the Georg-Eckert-Institute for International School Textbook Research, Braunschweig, coordinate the translation into German. So far, 25 ideas are translated and accessible for german teachers. Support for translating single ideas is very welcome. Especially geoscientists could contribute to make geoscience topics more attractive and comprehensible to german students by translating one or more ideas. Every idea consists of two DINA 4 pages and needs 2-4 hours for translating.

The poster will explain the structure of the Ideas (content and didactics), will present some translated ideas and will call for support by translating the ideas.