... by communicating about two ecosystems that were not readily accessible to the respective partners. To further increase our model’s value, we included approaches and activities that are known to yield high motivation, such as out-of-school learning sites ( Behrendt & Franklin, 2014 ), cooperative work ( Sharan...

... interpretation zoo biomimicry life sciences field trip experiential learning out-of-school learning There are two ways to approach the biomimicry design process: top-down and bottom-up (see Figure 1 ). In the top-down approach, an interdisciplinary team defines a problem, considers potential...

... students' positive attitudes toward plants; this approach was most effective in the dimension of urban trees. out-of-school learning botanical garden trip writing a book student-centered learning environments Biodiversity has been under serious threat for many reasons, mainly growing...

..., new teaching material has been developed to implement “grapevine and vineyard” as a new model organism and ecosystem in schools. The second focus of the learning material is the combination of hands-on activities and out-of-school learning sites. To our knowledge learning materials dealing...