Environmental orientated school and projects in the Baikal region

Six Buryatian schools with their environmental projects to the topic "Water is Life" are to be seen with six schools from Buryatia on this big collective poster (DIN A0), which will be distributed from February 2007 on in Buryatia and Osnabrück in order to popularize this common project of intercultural environmental education.

This poster is supposed to be the trigger for the Construction of a network of academic environmental projects and schools in Osnabrück and Buryatia with the focus on intercultural environmental education. Via the website interested environmentally orientated schools can make contact. We are also planning more mutual visits of the teachers and the pupils after our first successful realizations which took place in November 2007 in Osnabrück and in August/September in Buryatia.

„Water is Life“ is a first main topic of our cooperation between the workshop for environmental education of the local agenda 21 Osnabrück in Germany and the Baikal information centre GRAN in Ulan-Ude in the Russian Republic Buryatia, that also concerns out-of-school institutions. Thereby we want to make a contribution to the UN Decade education for sustainable development (2005-2014) and to the worldwide interregional network Globo:log, in which network projects from four continents collaborate.

A second common topic is Our food/Local food, which started in automn 2007.

Apart from the schools on the poster, other interested schools are also given the opportunity to present their projects and activities which are orientated on environmental education or on education for sustainable development. Of course this is also valid for schools and projects on the web page of Osnabrück.


Environmental projects of the schools on the poster (2007)

Comprehensive school Schinkel

Environmental project: Songs about the river Hase

  • Name of the project: Songs about the river Hase
  • Contact person: Rüdiger Quast - email: ruediger.quast@osnanet.de
  • Adress of the school: Windthorststrasse 79-85, 49090 Osnabrück
  • Geographical position: School in the district Schinkel Map
Brief description and involved pupils Two biology groups of year 7 (G1 and G2) delt with the topic Ecology in the school year 2004/2005. In doing so they talked about watercourses and used the river Hase flowing through Osnabrück as a concrete example. After having worked intensely on different aspects, the pupils were given the task to write songtexts including their new knowledge. Later the songs were set to music and, sung by the pupils themselves, recorded in the sound studio. 35 involved pupils.
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Secondary modern school Wittekind Osnabrück

Environmental project: German-Polish project „Water is life“

  • Name of the project: German-Polish project „Water is life“
  • Contact persons: Wiltrud Betzler-Schellin, Dorota Kuczia
  • Adress of the school: Knollstraße 143, 49088 Osnabrück
  • Geographical position: Schule is situated close to the Sonnenhügel (s. Map)
Brief description and involved pupils Based on the project topic „Water is life“ in 2005 a student exchange was established between the secondary modern school Wittekind in Osnabrück, Germany and the grammar school no. 3 in Thorn, Poland. The most important aim is to develop contacts between German and Polish adolescents in order to abolish prejudices. The exchange has a common topic every year, not only during the visit of German pupils in Thorn, but also during the return visit of Polish pupils in Osnabrück.
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Primary school "In der Wüste"

Environmental project: Scientist's expedition in the Hasepark

  • Name of the project: Scientist's expedition in the Hasepark
  • Contact person:
  • Adress of the school: Kromschröderstraße 31
    49080 Osnabrück. E-mail: schulleitung@gswueste-os.nibis.de
  • Geographical position: The school is situated in the disctrict Wüste (s. Map)
Brief description and involved pupils

In the frames of the project "Schools for a vivid Hase" pupils of the primary school ""In der Wüste" explored the Hasepark, a renaturalised former industrial area behind the central railway station. The project "Scientist's expedition in the Hasepark" was realised in September 2006 with class 3b of the primary school. It was composed by three teaching units - one lesson of preparation, the day of expedition and a reinforcing lesson. Those units are going to be presented in a more detailed way in the following. All in all the project provides all-round connecting factors for the more in-depth dealing of different subject areas such as usilization of the water, the hydrologic cycle, animals and plants and their habitat, nature in our city et al.

Cooperation partners Uni Osnabrück (State examination work L. Hammel) / Pedadogical environmental advide in Schools / Network schools for a vivid Hase
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Vocational Schools der Stadt Osnabrück "Am Pottgraben"

Environmental project: The Hase's Renaturalisation

  • Name of the project: The Hase's Renaturalisation
  • Contact person:
  • Adress of the school: Vocational Schools der Stadt Osnabrück "Am Pottgraben", Pottgraben 4, 49074 Osnabrück
    E-mail: info [snail] bbs-pottgraben [period] de
  • Geographical position: The school on the right side of the hospital "Marienhospital" (s. Map)
Brief description and involved pupils
Cooperation partners
  • hellmann worldwide logistics GmbH & Co.KG
  • Ahlstrom Osnabrück GmbH
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  • Event organisation "Hasen-Rasen" ("The Hase's lawn")
  • Restaurant guide "Schlemmer-Hase" ("Glutton Hase" / "Glutton Hare")

Centre of environmental education Museum am Schölerberg

Environmental project für Schulklassen: Wasserkreislauf im Wald

  • Name of the project: From the source to the river - the hydrological cycle in the forest
  • Contact person:
  • Adress of the centre:
  • Geographical position: Museum is situated in the district Schölerberg (s. Übersichtskarte)
Brief description and involved pupils
Cooperation partners Forestry office Ankum, public services Osnabrück, schools in Osnabrück
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Grammar school Artland Quakenbrück, educational site Grafelder Moor and monastery Börstel

Environmental project: Vegetation on the Hase

Brief description and involved pupils This project is realised in the frames of BLK-Transfer 21 in close collaboration with the regional centre for environmental education Osnabrücker Nordland (Educational site Grafelder Moor and monastery Börstel). Important groundwork is the material about water ecology for schools which was developped in the BLK Program 21 between 1999 and 2004. Since 2004 the methods and contents being composed in this booklet have been communicated in many different ways to teachers, pupils and interested individuals in and around this region.
Cooperation partners
  • Educational site Grafelder Moor - Monastery Börstel (Dohrener Straße 2 - 49626 Berge-Grafeld, Tel. 05435-91 00 30 e-mail: grafelder-moor@web.de)
  • Historical outdoor laboratory Wasserhausen
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Grammar school "In der Wüste"

  • Contact person: Dr. Gisbert Döpke
  • Adress of the school: Kromschröderstr. 33, 49080 Osnabrück
  • Homepage
  • email -> mailto:gidw-os [snail] web [period] de
  • Geographical position
Brief description of the school:
Cooperation partners
  • Regional centre and site for environmental education Noller Schlucht
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Projects of the school, e.g. participation on the trip to the Baikal 2008

Free Rudolf Steiner School Evinghausen

  • Contact person: Georg Wilmers (Vertretungsberechtigter)
  • Adress of the school: Ickerlandstraße 16, 49565 Bramsche
  • Homepage
  • email -> mailto:mail [snail] waldorfschule-evinghausen [period] de
  • Geographical position: About 15 km in the north of Osnabrück Map
Brief description of the school or Steiner's pedagogics.
"The physically, mentally and spiritually healthy development of the children stands in the focus of our efforts. This is due to the pedagogy of Rudolf Steiner, which is based on his knowledge of the laws of human development. By use of Steiner's course of instruction the abilities of the children are supposed to be developped and supported in a well-balanced way." (Source and other characteristics of the school
Cooperation partner:
  • Architecture office WERNER HAASE, Julius-Echter-Straße 59, (09353)97753 Karlstadt
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Other projects of the school, e.g. the participation on the trip to the Baikal in 2008
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