Resources for NBS Education
NBS EduDirectory - The resource landscape of NBS Education
This repository provides a comprehensive list of available resources, including guidance, reports, tools, and services developed around education about NBS. These NBS education resources and materials were discovered through EU-funded online repositories and through desk research. It is updated annually. You can also consult it as a database on PowerBI.
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Exploring ecosystem services and nature-based solutions to urban problems
The purpose of this learning scenario is to explore an urban ecosystem of a city, analysing its ecosystem services and determining whether it acts as a nature-based solution (NBS) to challenges such as diminishing biodiversity, urban heat islands and urban decay. This Learning Scenario was developed as part of the Integrating Nature-Based Solutions in Education project, funded by the European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation and coordinated by PPMI, in collaboration with European Schoolnet (EUN).
Topic: Biodiversity
Educational Level: Secondary Education
Language: Dutch English French German Greek Italian Lithuanian Polish Portuguese Romanian Slovak Spanish Swedish
Organisation: European Schoolnet
Exploring the role of nature-based solutions in Lake Sevan through Armenian literature
This Learning Scenario (LS) explores nature-based solutions in Armenian literature for 9th-grade students, utilizing various methods like problem-based learning and project-based learning. It enhances critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving skills while addressing real-world environmental challenges, offering inspiration for similar approaches in other countries.
Topic: Biodiversity
Educational Level: Secondary Education
Language: English
Organisation: European Schoolnet
Seeds for life
Secondary school students create a vegetable roof school garden in collaboration with experts and families. The activities of this Learning Scenario (LS) will be carried out to re-develop an unused part of the school, promoting actions in favor of biodiversity, climate change and urban redevelopment.
Topic: Biodiversity
Educational Level: Secondary Education
Language: Dutch English French German Greek Italian Lithuanian Portuguese Romanian Spanish
Organisation: European Schoolnet
The European Nature Protection Toolkit
Besides being beautiful, Europe’s nature is of great importance on so many levels to all of us and this Toolkit will help your students understand why. It will lead us on a journey that starts with getting down on our hands and knees to look at the plants and animals that inhabit Europe’s natural areas. We will talk about biodiversity - “What is biodiversity?” - as well as introduce some of the basic scientific notions that underpin environmental science... (Source: European Commission, 2022)
Topic: Biodiversity
Educational Level: Secondary Education
Language: Croatian Danish Dutch English French Finnish German Greek Italian Lithuanian Polish Portuguese Romanian Slovak Spanish Swedish
Organisation: European Commission
Turn the bees back to work! Protect them to enhance biodiversity!
Climate change poses an existential threat, demanding urgent action. Its effects reverberate across various sectors, including agriculture. Farmers and farm workers grapple with the fragility of ecosystems, impacting food security. Beekeepers, too, face challenges due to declining bee populations. Bees play a crucial role in pollination, fostering diversity and stronger plant growth. However, their decline jeopardizes agriculture, economies, and the environment. The project described in this Learning Scenario aims to address these challenges by promoting resilient and sustainable agriculture. Collaborating with the Department of Agriculture and Forestry and the Department of Greening Environment in the Municipality of Patos, the school (Gjimnazi Zhani Ciko, Albania) is committed to combat climate change and biodiversity loss. Our initiative includes gender-inclusive beekeeping, lightweight bamboo hives, and cultivating Spirulina, considered a future bee food source.
Topic: Biodiversity
Educational Level: Secondary Education
Language: English
Organisation: European Schoolnet
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