Teaching Materials: My Body and I on a Trip Around the World As
part of her dissertation at the Chair for the Teaching of
Chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen Regina Hübinger
developed with support from the Ernst Schering Foundation
teaching materials for Integrated Science Curriculum that help
to maintain and increase a scientific interest in children.
During their first school years, children can easily get excited
about scientific topics. But when electricity becomes flowing
electrons and the green of the leaves is suddenly called
chlorophyll, many pupils lose interest. Therefore it is
important to be able to use the learned material and to
understand the interconnections. After all, it is pure physics
when a plant bursts through the soil in spring, pure chemistry
when it beguiles insects with its smell and pure biology when it
produces its seeds. At a symposium on May 23, 2006, the Ernst
Schering Foundation presented these teaching materials to the
public. The symposium entitled "The Fascination