Situated right on the boundary between Wageningen's residential neighbourhoods and the countryside lies a learning garden of around 2,500 square metres. There, pupils from secondary school De Pantarijn are free to garden, conduct research, cook, and attend lessons in the open air.
The first sitting of the final exams is over once again. Vmbo, havo and vwo pupils grappled with a range of topics, from brook lampreys to the evolution of...
Non-teachers sometimes have the impression that we teachers do nothing but transfer knowledge. As if the pupil were a tabula rasa, a blank slate, waiting to be written on. If only that were the case.
The EO broadcasts a television programme on Tuesday evenings entitled de Klas van '26.
This programme follows three form tutors as they prepare their examination classes for the national exams. It is heartwarming and incredibly familiar to see how these tutors throw themselves wholeheartedly into supporting their pupils. All three teachers demonstrate closeness, enthusiasm and commitment, with the pupil at the centre of everything they do.
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.
Why do animals travel thousands of kilometres across the globe? Alongside the new book on migration published by the Foundation for Biosciences and Society...
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...
This quiz accompanies the article '5 questions about: Summer problems caused by cyanobacterial blooms' and links to the themes of ecology and cell biology.
Light pollution, noise nuisance, and litter: life in the city is not always easy for animals. But how much does it actually affect them? This is what pre-university students Ilana van Veluw, Inke Meijer, Rosalie Otten, and Zhou Meng Heddema investigated for their extended school project, using house crickets. 'Testing was only permitted on invertebrates, and house crickets are easy to obtain', explains Meijer of their choice of study animal.
Molecules that 'want' to move, water that 'wants to go somewhere': anyone who discusses diffusion and osmosis in the classroom quickly runs up against...
Where grey wolves settle depends on a host of factors. For his extended research project, Sam van Ginhoven set out to capture it all in a mathematical model.
