What is the Bioeconomy?

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Beschreibung

What is the Bioeconomy? To break it down, the term bio refers to any living thing; while economy means the making and usage of goods and services by those within a country or region. So, the Bioeconomy is an economy based on renewable biological resources. By using living things instead of those that are non-renewable, humans can grow more to replace diminishing reserves.

The three lessons in Pack 1 will introduce these concepts and links to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It will frequently encourage classroom debate to enhance students’ learning. These debates will have accompanying prompts to help highlight the multiple layers, perspectives and dimensions to the Bioeconomy and sustainability.

After these lessons, students will have a critical and informed knowledge base from which they can make sustainable consumer choices; considering economic, environmental and societal impacts to various decisions.

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Wie Sie diese Ressource nutzen können

These packs are all flexible, and have purposely been created on editable templates for teachers/ educators to adapt to local contexts and the needs/abilities of students. 

The pack is multimedia, and uses PowerPoints, print-outs, activity guides and video to encourage meaningful learning. Some activities require outdoor space.

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Die Ressourcen

What is the Bioeconomy? (PDF):

The THYME Project Teacher Guide to Pack 1: Laying the Foundations provides detailed notes and instruction for teachers to a three-lesson introduction to the Bioeconomy. To accompany this, PowerPoint slides with teacher notes and embedded media content are available to download here:

• Lesson 1: Will we ever run out?
• Lesson 2: What is the Bioeconomy?
• Lesson 3: Is it time to bin the plastic bag?

The full range of resources developed by the THYME Project are available here:

• Full range of resources

Due to reconstruction of the website of the University of Hull, it might happen that the above-mentioned resources are not available for some time. You can find the resource packs here:

• Resource page

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Learning Outcomes (Teachers)

• Abfrage des Vorwissens und Weiterentwicklung von Wissen und Verständnis von Schlüsselkonzepten der nachhaltigen Bürgerschaft, wobei etablierte Weltanschauungen und Werte in Frage gestellt werden.
• Anwendung einer Reihe von geeigneten Instrumenten und Rahmenwerken zur Förderung des bürgerschaftlichen Engagements von Studierenden im Bereich Nachhaltigkeit
• Reflektieren Sie die Praxis und untersuchen Sie die nationalen Lehrpläne, um Möglichkeiten zur Förderung der nachhaltigen Bürgerschaft auf interdisziplinäre Weise zu identifizieren und mit externen Interessengruppen in Kontakt zu treten.
• das Wissen, die Instrumente und den Rahmen gemeinsam zu synthetisieren, um Bildungsmaterialien und Unterrichtspläne zu erstellen, die an ihren eigenen lokalen Kontext angepasst sind

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Grüne Kompetenzen

• Nachhaltige Werte verkörpern: Valuing Sustainability
• Komplexität in der Nachhaltigkeit berücksichtigen: Systemdenken; Kritisches Denken; Problemstellung
• Visionen für eine nachhaltige Zukunft: Futures Literacy; Adaptability; Exploratory Thinking

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Creative Commons

These educational resources were created by the University of Hull’s Energy and Environment Institute, as part of the THYME Project. Researchers worked with school teachers and community organisations to develop activities and lesson plans around Bioeconomy themes and concepts. The multimedia teachers’ resource packs help you introduce the Bioeconomy into your curriculum. They contain lesson plans, worksheets, animation links, written case studies with online resource links, ‘how to’ films and download links for powerpoint presentations as well as careers resources for older students.

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SDGs