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Research Projects in Biology Education

  • Species Knowledge in Schools (AriS) – a competition for students to discover biodiversity on school grounds
    The goal of AriS is to organize a competition for schools in the Hanover/Lower Saxony region with schools and their students to inspire them about nature and environmental protection, increase their awareness of species, and thus guide them into nature. For this competition, participants must visit areas close to the school (school grounds, wetlands, forests, meadows, etc.) and identify and report species groups using the "ID-Logics" app or a website. The winning schools will be awarded a biodiversity seal.
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Jorge Groß
    Year: 2028
    Funding: Niedersächsische BINGO Umweltstiftung (NBU) in cooperation with the Niedersächsischen Sparkassenverband (angefragt)
    Duration: 2025 - 2028
  • ID-Nature – Development of an identification app by young people to promote biodiversity conservation
    In the "ID-Nature" project, over 700 students collaborated on a specially developed digital platform to create an interactive identification key for butterflies. This key was released in June 2023 in the presence of the 200 junior developers and the entire app team. In the process, users became developers. Since then, it has been available for free download as part of the "ID-Logics" identification app. The project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Department of Biology Education, the specialist scientists, and the development company Initree GmbH.
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Jorge Groß, Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Küster (†)
    Team: Birgit Baumann, Sarah A. Besic, Dr. Armin Blöchl (TiHo)
    Year: 2025
    Funding: Niedersächsische Bundesstiftung Umwelt (NBU) in Cooperation with the Niedersächsischen Sparkassenverband
    Duration: 2021 - 2025
  • Virtual learning environments – teacher training in 360°
    In this project lecturers of the IDN will be prepared and equipped for using virtual reality in seminars for teacher education. For this, learning materials will be developed, tested and reflected upon.
    Led by: Dr. Sabine Struckmeier, Dr. Alexander Büssing, Stephanie Mittrach
    Team: Frederik Rösch
    Year: 2020
    Funding: Leibniz School of Education, Leibniz University Hannover (SQM)
    Duration: 4/2020-9/2021
    [Translate to English:] Frau mit VR-Brille [Translate to English:] Frau mit VR-Brille
  • Design of e-learning units for the seminar on research methodology
    In the project, a traditional teaching approache is adapted into a consistent flipped classroom concept. Theoretical content is outsourced to online learning modules for asynchronous preparation. In the classroom practice, theory and practice are linked in depth and applied to concrete data sets using research methods. The main goal is to increase self-determined learning through individual preparation.
    Led by: Dr. Sarah Hundertmark
    Team: Julian Heeg, Dr. Benedikt Heuckmann
    Year: 2020
    Funding: MWK Innovation plus
    Duration: 04/2020 - 12/2021

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