Experiment Station: Transpiration and Evaporative Cooling
Through two different experimental approaches, pupils learn about the phenomenon of transpiration in plants. The cooling effect resulting from transpiration is also covered in the text.
Plants
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Build your Green Facade Model
Planting areas as unsealing measures with seating areas. Get your step-by-step building instruction including plant care & maintenance.
Build your Modular Greening System
Vertical indoor greening: Get your step-by-step building instruction including plant care & maintenance.
Build your Rectangular Pergola
Rectangular Pergola. Get your step-by-step building instruction including plant care & maintenance.
Learning Activity: Creating a Pollinator Friendly Environment
Pollinating insects need food, and will be most visible when they are visiting flowers, but they also need suitable places to shelter and to successfully reproduce.
Experiment Station: The Photosynthesis
As part of the ‘Photosynthesis’ experiment station, pupils use the inquiry-based learning method to investigate the research question: ‘How does plant photosynthesis affect the composition of the air?’.
Learning Activity: Using Compost
Where there are plants, there is a need for compost. Compost has so many uses you will never run out of ways to use this black gold!
Experiment Station: Shadow Effect
In this experiment, the pupils measure the effect that ‘green facades’ have on the heating of surfaces (facades).
Vertical greening
Vertical greening can be applied indoors and outdoors in a space-saving way. Green facades are an alternative form of greening for densely built-up cities.
Experiment Station: Green Facades Learning Environment
Using a digital learning environment, pupils explore various green wall systems and plant species. For this activity, plant identification apps or existing green wall models can be used.
Indoor greening
The planting of indoor spaces is important, as pupils spend most of their school day there. Especially in new school buildings, it is often quite dry due to the well-insulated walls, and children, young people and teachers complain about their mucous membranes drying out.
Experiment: Greening your classroom
In this exercise, the classroom is to be greened and enhanced by numerous plants. The plants are chosen together, placed in the class, planted and cared for.
Build your Pop-Up Surface Greening
Planting areas as unsealing measures with seating areas. Get your step-by-step building instruction including plant care & maintenance.
Experiment: Climbing plants@school
With the help of this exercise, the pupils can observe and learn about plant growth and the climbing organs of climbing plants at close quarters. For this purpose, they also grow their own climbing plants.
Learning Activity: Grass sod pile composting
Sometimes you may need to remove grass sods grass with roots and attached soil when creating a wildflower meadow or carrying out other landscaping projects.
Experiment: Grow your own seedlings
Some plants must be pre-cultivated before they are planted. A practical and cost-saving option is to grow plants from the seeds yourself. This way, in contrast to greenhouse plants, they are immediately adapted to the environmental conditions and are thus more robust.
Build your Rope System Trellis
For climbing plants . Get your step-by-step building instruction including plant care & maintenance.
Build your EVAPO+ Green Wall
Evapo-transpiring wooden vertical greening. Get your step-by-step building instruction including plant care & maintenance.
Build your Triangular-Pergola with Bench
Pergola with plant trough and trellis. Get your step-by-step building instruction including plant care & maintenance.
Build your Wooden Trellis
For climbing plants. Get your step-by-step building instruction including plant care & maintenance.
Build your Shadow Double Bench
Wooden construction with bench & trellis. Get your step-by-step building instruction including plant care & maintenance.
Build your Mobile Green Wall with Fleece Pockets
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Learning Activity: Rough compost piles and dead hedging
Sometimes you may have large amounts of logs, branches and other bulky woody materials that will not easily compost. A useful and often elegant solution can be a rough compost pile or a dead hedge.
Learning Activity: Making Homemade Liquid Plant Feed
Liquid plant feed is an organic fertiliser made by soaking nutrient-rich plants in water to release their minerals and nutrients.
Wildflower Meadow
Creating a wildflower meadow is one of the most rewarding ways to support local biodiversity.
Positive effects of plants
Plants have many positive qualities. Through photosynthesis, plants produce the oxygen that is vital for humans and animals and purify the air as well. For many animals, plants form a space to live – from small animals cavorting in moss to large animals living in the forest.
Plant care
In order to thrive and grow optimally, various factors are indispensable for plants. Plant growth factors include light, air, temperature, water, and nutrients. If all factors are sufficiently present, the plant can develop well.
Experiment: Measuring water storage capacity
The experimental set-up is used to simulate a rainfall event on vegetated, open, and sealed ground. In this way, soil erosion and the effect of plants are illustrated. In addition, the different effects of rain on the soil with regards to the degree of sealing and soil vitality are highlighted.
Build your Mobile Green Room Divider
Rollable plant trough with trellis. Get your step-by-step building instruction including plant care & maintenance.
Build your Mobile Trapezoidal Plant Trough
Get your step-by-step building instruction including plant care & maintenance.
Build your Green Pergola-Class
Get your step-by-step building instruction including plant care & maintenance.
Wood Protection
Wood is a “living” natural product – and therefore also perishable. That is why it is important to prepare the wood well before using it for construction.
Experiment Station: Carbon Dioxide as a Greenhouse Gas
In this experiment, the greenhouse effect is first explained in writing. In the experiment that follows, the pupils discover the effect that carbon dioxide has on air temperature (the atmosphere).