School Biology Center Hanover

School Biology Center
type of school	Special school facility
founding	1974
address	Castle (Hanover)
place	Hanover Castle
country	Lower Saxony
Country	Germany
Coordinates	52 ° 23 '55 "  N , 9 ° 41' 35"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '55 "  N , 9 ° 41' 35"  E
Website	www.schulbiologiezentrum.info

The School Biology Center Hannover is a regional environmental education center with headquarters in the Burg district in Hannover . It is supported by the state capital Hanover and (through teacher delegation hours) by the state of Lower Saxony . Other locations are the botanical school garden in Linden-Mitte and the Burg open-air school in Hanover.

Structure and target groups

The facility is divided into three departments:

• Botanical School Garden Burg (also headquarters)
• Burg open-air school
• Botanical School Garden Linden ( Lage ), created in 1920 in a clay pit on Lindener Berg . There are lessons in and about the garden. School classes have their own parcels. There is Hanover's only vineyard on a slope.

In addition to a variety of courses for school children, there are teacher training courses and Sunday programs for parents with their children. These are used every year by thousands of visitors from school classes, kindergartens, study seminars, student groups and others.

Lesson topics

Botanical school garden Linden with training building in the background

Former training building in the Linden Botanical School Garden

The School Biology Center has had a wide range of teaching options, materials, experiences and ideas on biological and related topics since around 1985. Topics currently (2009) offered are:

Characteristics of living beings Evolution of plants Photosynthesis experiments Microscopy Newtons , joules Watt & Co / experience energy Vertebrates Pets Eye and optics Lichen as bio-indicators Plants and Climate Color of leaves in autumn Arthropod learning stations Courses in the pharmacy garden

CO 2 , H 2 O & greenhouse effect Euglena and photosynthesis All about the apple Forest ecosystem Light and color fishes Animals in and around the water Mice Spaceship Earth in the solar system From ´lotto´ to Mendel genetics 7 days, 7 nights under the stars Earth history you can touch: stones tell stories Weather kitchen: experiments on the physics of weather Knowledge of species

history

The predecessor of today's school biology center was the botanical school garden, which was laid out near the horse tower during the founding period of the German Empire in 1883 , but was relocated to Kirchröder Strasse after a few years due to a lack of space in 1892.

Literature (selection)

• Reinhold Tüxen : The plant sociological garden in Hanover and its previous development , special print from the 94th – 98th edition. Annual report of the Natural History Society of Hanover, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft und Druckerei, 1947
• State capital Hanover, school administration, school biology center , multi-volume work in various editions, some with the title School Biology Center: State Capital Hanover, School Authority, School Biology Center (= publications of the botanical school gardens of the state capital Hanover ), 1974–1984
  • Volume 3: School garden and school grounds
  • Volume 5: The work school garden. index
  • Volume 7: Biology with houseplants, plant physiology
  • Volume 7: Working material for biology lessons , part 14: Mimosa
  • Volume 8: Animal husbandry and school biology
• Gerhard Winkel (edit.): The School Biology Center Hanover (Ed.): State Capital Hanover - Press and Information Office , [o. J., 1988]
• Eva Benz-Rababah : School Biology Center. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover . P. 555.
• The School Biology Center Hanover. Origins, history, reality. A chronicle of the last 130 years , 192 z. Partly illustrated pages, Hanover: Association for the Promotion of the School Biology Center Hanover, 2012; contents

Web links

Commons : School Biology Center Hannover  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Association for the promotion of the School Biology Center eV

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eva Benz-Rababah: School Biology Center. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover . P. 555.