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Benefits for educators
Make your garden more relevant to teachers and students through providing them with real world experiences using IBSE techniques. Learn a variety of methods to assess your impact and become a reflective practitioner.
This course is going to transform my teaching!
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25/04/13 | London
Pitcher plants as tiny ecosystems – educational microcosms for IBSE
Large and complex topics, like how ecosystems work for example, can be challenging to explain. Using small, observable experiments can therefore be useful in simulating of landscape-scale processes. Scientists have used pitcher plants as tiny model ecosystems to study how “tipping points” are triggered in lakes and ponds. Perhaps this could generate some ideas for IBSE demonstrations?
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View all resourcesGo to our resource section for plenty of ideas on how to teach IBSE. We’ve searched through many books, education packs and websites to find resources relevant for teaching in botanic gardens and other informal education settings.
