| Even the very youngest children – the scientists of tomorrow – can experience with their own hands the green biotechnology and the blueprint of life in the school laboratory for biology.
The “green laboratory”, the school laboratory for biology, was opened in 2006 on the Biotech-Campus at Gatersleben under the slogan, experiencing science. Its aims are to stimulate the interest of young people in the natural sciences, particularly biotechnology, while they are still at school, to give those of them with a special interest in science full support and encouragement, giving them the opportunity of developing their capabilities and potential to the full, and finally to give them full support in vocational guidance.
Apart from general biological subjects, the “green laboratory” Gatersleben, one of four school laboratories in Saxony-Anhalt, specializes primarily in the field of plant biotechnology, which enables it to offer a range of modern scientific methods in the field of green genetic engineering that is unique in Germany.
Not least, the laboratory has also been made accessible to members of the public with an interest in science in order to provide them with factual information and explanations about the cutting edge biosciences by means of events and courses.
Target Groups
- Schoolchildren in grades 5 to 12 (grammar schools, secondary schools, comprehensive schools)
- Children of preschool and primary school age
- Teachers
- Trainees
- The public
Aims and Objectives
- Consolidating classroom and extracurricular training in the field of the natural sciences
- Awakening an interest in the natural sciences
- Networking schools, the world of business and science
- Scholarships for gifted students
- Student counselling service
- Vocational training
- Practice-oriented training
- Teacher training
- PR in the sphere of plant biotechnology
Cooperations (selection)
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben
- Julius Kühn Institute, Federal Research Institute for Crop Plants,
- Martin-Luther University Halle, Department of Biology Didactics
- Europaschule Gymnasium Stephaneum Aschersleben
Bilingual Lecture Experiments:
- Biochemical proof reactions of photosynthesis
- Measurement of enzymatic activities: Catalase, Lipase, Urease, Pepsin
- Nucleic acids and the genetic information
Facts and Figures
- Over 3,200 visitors since 2006
- 2007: 450 young people showing an interest in careers in the life sciences
- In April 2008 the green laboratory will be the host of the final round of the XI. Biology Chemistry Olympiad of the State of Saxony-Anhalt
- Bilingual courses, science weeks, school action week, “Children and their parents carry out experiments”.
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