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Greenopolis - a learning platform about nature-based solutions

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Resource description:

Greenopolis is an educational platform about nature-based solutions. The material contains activities and exercises that bring school children (age 8-12 yrs) outside into the (urban)nature to learn through reflexions, creativity, experiments, observations, and by being bodily present in nature. Greenopolis gives you a good introduction to topics like biodiversity, ecosystems, urban development, noisepollution, and airpollution, before you go out and explore the phenomenons yourselves. Greenopolis is one of the educational outputs in the wp5 of the Horizon2020 research project, REGREEN.

Requirements:

  • Only for tablet and computer

Advantages:

  • Explore the concept of nature-based solutions in a child-friendly way
  • Many learning activities for indoor and outdoor
  • Good introduction to climate and societal challenges like air and noise pollution, flooding, and lack of biodiversity

Constraints:

  • Not developed for mobile

Uses of this resource:

To be used in the class room or as preparation at home. The exercises and activities can be done individually or in groups.

Global goals:

  • 3. Good Health and well being

  • 4. Quality education

  • 6. Clean water and sanitation

  • 11. Sustainable cities and communities

  • 13. Climate action

  • 14. Life below water

  • 15. Life on land

Licence:

  • Public/open source

Development stage:

  • Full, working product
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