Spring, summer, fall and winter - young researchers can explore the fascination of our natural world with NABU in every season.

As NABU Aachen, it is very important to us to enable children and young people in our region to experience nature directly and to arouse their enthusiasm and interest, whether in the immediate vicinity, in the Aachen forest or elsewhere in the varied landscape. In our own protected areas, they can directly experience how practical nature conservation works and support this work. It is important to us to work together with you as a kindergarten/school. By arrangement, we can take up topics from the classroom and explore them in greater depth outdoors. We are happy to create a program for excursions and project days as well as events for multipliers.

Key topics include, for example: The world of bees, life in streams, orchard meadow habitat/all about apples, forest ecology, poisonous plants.

You can also find us in the educational catalog 'Lernt doch mal woanders' (Learn somewhere else) of the education office of the Aachen city region.

School garden and OGS nature groups

Since spring 2007, there has been a school garden project at the Gut Kullen community elementary school. In cooperation with the NABU Aachen city association, a school gardening group takes place here every week as part of the open all-day school. The children learn about native plants and animals and everything to do with the garden while growing fruit and vegetables.

NABU environmental educators also enrich the weekly OGS (Open all-day school) program with their nature groups at the Aachen elementary school Hanbruch, Forster Linde and the Lindenschule in Aachen-Haaren.

Would you also like to set up a school garden, look after children in the school garden or cooperate with NABU Aachen as part of your OGS program? We would be happy to advise you.

Contact: Britta Mahn umweltbildung@nabu-aachen.de

Nature day at Aachen's elementary schools

Every Friday, it's time for one class at the Vaalserquartier community elementary school to "Get out into nature!" Led by Gisela Siebörger from NABU Aachen, the children experience nature up close and with all their senses in the nearby forest, surrounding meadows, fields and streams.

This project is made possible thanks to funding from the Kathy Beys Foundation and the school's Friends' Association. Thank you very much!

The weekly nature day has also been offered at Anna School since fall 2023.

Would you also like to introduce a regular nature day at your school? We look forward to hearing from you.

Contact: Britta Mahn umweltbildung@nabu-aachen.de

Klicken Sie bspw. hier für eine Darstellung unserer Umweltbildungsarbeit an der Lindenschule in Aachen.

Family support service (FeD)

Lebenshilfe Aachen FeD GmbH is a subsidiary of Lebenshilfe Aachen and supports children with disabilities and their parents by offering leisure activities. Arno and Petra Cymutta combine their voluntary work at NABU Aachen with their commitment to FeD by regularly taking the children out into the garden, making bees, pressing apple juice and other activities.

Klicken Sie hier für eine Pressemeldung zur Kooperation von NABU Aachen und FeD.

NABU naturalists at the pro futura-Montessori children's home St. Sebastian Aachen

Some projects come about almost by chance and this was also the case with the NABU nature explorers in 2012. Two nature-loving mothers got to know each other at their youngest children's kindergarten and regretted that the children so rarely just played outside and were active in nature.

The idea of the NABU nature explorers was born! Since then, every 14 days on Wednesdays, 10 to 12 children from the nursery spend a whole morning exploring the outdoor area and the surrounding area. The NABU nature explorers are the 4 to 6-year-old children who set off in all weathers to discover the wonders of nature, big and small. In January, of course, we start with the 'Hour of Winter Birds'. As well as getting to know the birds, we are delighted to be able to offer the winter guests our home-made nut and fruit necklaces and everyone also learns how valuable a wild hedge of native shrubs is.

This is how it goes throughout the year and the seasons; in this special year 2021 for the 10th year in a row. NABU Aachen's naturalist community is growing all the time. In the meantime, many families of the naturalist children have become active NABU members because their children talk about their experiences, make delicious orchard apple juice with us from their own muscle power and have seen the fascinating shape of a freshwater shrimp and much, much more ... Due to its many years of valuable work, the project was even awarded the Hermann Klingler Prize in January 2022. Hermann-Klingler-Preis ausgezeichnet worden.

Thanks to the perseverance of the NABU naturalists, it has now become a matter of course for everyone in the nursery to treat nature with care at all times. The teachers experience that we as NABU naturalists do not need any special knowledge or material. Nature itself offers us everything we need. The children show us how. How simple and wonderful!

Zuletzt aktualisiert am 10/03/2024