Educational Materials for Integration of a School Garden
Student project, 2021
Illustration, Editorial Design, Concept & Research
Illustration, Editorial Design, Concept & Research
Children find it much easier to learn, understand and, above all, implement things in the long term if they can experience the direct effects and possible applications of their actions and knowledge. School is there to prepare adolescents for the coming problems of their time. And this is done not only by imparting pure factual knowledge in subjects such as mathematics or German, but much more by teaching competencies. Knowledge is a tool that should be used correctly and competencies are the basis for how and why to act.
The ideal learning environment for teaching design competencies is the school garden. Here, all sub-competencies from the areas of factual, methodological and self-competence are taught in a playful setting, while learning content within the curriculum. Despite the added value, the number of school gardens in Germany is stagnating at a constant level. This is not least due to the fact that school boards and teaching staff do not know how to establish a school garden or how to integrate it into lessons in the long term.
Samen – Keimling – Knospe – Blüte: Educational Materials for the Long-Term Integration of a School Garden at the Primary Level takes these hurdles away from elementary schools. It is a modular concept that on the one hand contains information materials and concrete instructions on how to plant a school garden and how to cultivate it in the long term. On the other hand, class-level educational materials are provided in the form of reusable learning posters to accompany the individual steps in the school garden and copy templates for further integration of global issues to promote education for sustainable development.
