Planning

The planning started with Teams meetings in the autumn of 2021. Researchers and teachers from Finland, Slovenia, and Austria attended the meetings. The sessions had been preceded by contacts between the researchers of the Forgenius project and teachers who would possibly join the project. Then, in December 2021, we had a workshop where the themes of the project were initially defined in terms of the phenomena of biodiversity

Below, Memo of the first meeting:

Forgenius Workshop 1.12.2021

Teams meeting

Engbert Beuker
Santiago Gonzalez-Martinez
Berthold Heinze
Katja Kavčič Sonnenschein
Eero Kovanen

Simona Miklavc-Pintaric
Saara Nissinen
Tuomas Olli
Petteri Vanninen
Urša Vilhar
Marjana Westergren
Katja Winkler

The mission of the Workshop was to introduce connected learning and biodiversity concepts by experts and start co-design for a good connected learning pilot for spring 2022 (schools from FIN and SLO and experts from Forgenius).

1. Petteri Vanninen, Task 7.3 -leader Petteri Vanninen, Natural resources institute Finland:
Short introduction of members
Project aims

2. Saara Nissinen, PhD Student, Teacher & Eero Kovanen, Project Assistant, Teacher, municipality of Savonlinna, Finland Introduction to Connected Learning, theory and practice (attachment)
Presentation and YouTube -video (link: https://youtu.be/nSvOe4_l4EE )

3. Discussion

4. Break

5. Researcher Marjana Westergren, Slovenia (attachment)
Biodiversity in forests

6. Senior researcher Egbert Beuker, Natural resources institute Finland/Savonlinna. (attachment)
Introduction to biodiversity 

7. Student, Kim Zizek, Slovenia
Introduction; pre/post questionnaires for children.
PRE Questions

1. Would you like to learn more in school about getting to know plants and animals and other living things?

2. How many animals and plants do you know? 

3. Do you like to observe plants and animals in nature when you go for a walk?

4. Are living beings connected in nature? 

5. What would the world without trees look like? Write at least three sentences.

POST Questions

1. Would you like to learn more in school about getting to know plants and animals and other living things now that you know more about this topic? Did project inspired them to learn more about nature 

2. How many animals and plants do you know now?Didthey learn more about species through the project

3. Do you like to observe more plants and animals in nature when you go for a walk? Did they became more interested by their surroundings

4. Are living beings connected in nature? Did your opinion change? Did they start to understand the connection better

5. What would the world without trees look like? Write at least three sentences. Do they understand importance of the trees and their role

6. What did you like the most about the project? Make an interview with your peer. Maybe even with peer from finland? Children would connect with each other and we would get a feedback 🙂

8. Discussion

8. Eero Kovanen, Project Assistant, teacher
Timetable. Introduction. (attachment)

9. Suggestions and opinions from experts.