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What’s Your Take on That?
Biology is not only about plants, animals and ecosystems – it also offers ample opportunities for citizenship education. At the NIBI conference Getting to the Bottom of It, Aranka Werson presented an interactive teaching activity in which pupils experience first-hand how differently people can think about a topic, and how opinions can change.
Migration in comic-strip form
Why do animals travel thousands of kilometres across the globe? Alongside the new book on migration published by the Foundation for Biosciences and Society (Stichting Biowetenschappen en Maatschappij), Heleen...
Modelling population dynamics with parrots
Gaining insight into population dynamics requires more than theoretical knowledge alone. In this lesson, upper secondary havo/vwo pupils develop this insight by building and...
Bee-lessons for the National Bee Count
Spring is in the air and outside the buzzing has begun. That means the National Bee Count is on its way! Will your class...
Climate science in the school playground
How well is the school environment equipped to withstand a changing climate? In an outdoor lesson run by IVN, pupils investigate how climate-resilient their...
Puzzling out a donor
Stem cell donation can be a matter of life and death. To raise pupils' awareness of this, Matchis and the NIBI have joined forces...
Nature’s smartest solutions
BioLearn lets pupils aged 12 to 16 discover how biomimicry – the imitation of clever strategies found in nature – can contribute to sustainable innovation.
Climate, Cycles and Art
In the teaching materials from Biowetenschappen en Maatschappij, lower secondary havo/vwo pupils discover that all our natural systems are interconnected.
Do You Know What You’re Eating?
Through this teaching material, pupils discover what healthy eating involves, how to make more sustainable choices, and how to resist temptation.
Snails with personality
In this lesson, pupils strengthen their research skills by investigating whether garden snails, like humans and great tits, have distinct personalities.