Learning in lockdown: DW offers digital learning packages

Students are at home due to Corona, with some facing a lack of digital teaching materials on environmental topics. DW’s Global Ideas project offers seven learning packages for students and teachers.

These support children and young people between 12 and 16 years of age as well as teachers. Multimedia-based, playful and interesting, the materials can be used free of charge for non-commercial educational purposes.

“We deliver exciting and modern educational content that inspires, is multimedia and interactive,” says DW Editor-in-Chief Manuela Kasper-Claridge. “For this project, we draw on image-rich video footage and reports from our correspondents, as well as graphics and in-depth texts and photos.”

DW’s Global Ideas project is funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment. Games, films, articles and interactive worksheets provide comprehensive information and solutions on the respective topic. Children and young people can relate to their living environment and are given ideas for experiments and building instructions. For teachers, there are instructions for teaching units. 

There is great international interest in the teaching and lesson materials, which are available in German, English and Spanish. They are used worldwide in classrooms and also as part of project days at schools or in environmental groups or associations.

The first learning package on “Plastic waste and the consequences for the environment” was published in 2017. “A few years ago, the problem was not as present in the media as it is today,” says Kasper-Claridge. “Now there are seven learning packages that can support digital school lessons even in the pandemic.”

(Source: DW press release)