Educational material
On this page you can find educational material to use in the classroom. Click on the different links below to find step-by-step instructions and extra material. The different exercises have varying need for preparation and time, ranging for short exercises that don’t need much preparations, to activities that can be used for several hours or as long-term projects.
This exercise can be used to teach about rocks and minerals and what they are used for in our society. The students get to play through a special map and then identify rocks and minerals with the tools they learned in the game.
With computers.
This activity can be used to teach about the need of raw materials in the manufacturing of everyday products. The exercise uses the concept of the bingo, adapted to the crafting of new battery powered objects available in BetterGeo.
Without computers.
This exercise aims to teach about raw material and how we obtain them from the earth. The exercise uses Lego pieces to illustrate how metals come from minerals that build up different rocks.
Without computers.
With this exercise students understand the concept of product life cycle. To develop creativity and imagination, they must construct 3 different R letters in the Minecraft game that represent the words reduce, reuse and recycle.
With computers.
BetterGeo HUNT is an exercise that develops orientation skills, teaches about the importance of circular economy for our society and improves the students' ability to work in a team. To successfully find the hidden treasure, the teams must complete an orienteering route and solve various tasks.
With computers.
With this exercise, we want to raise the students' awareness of the fact that we need raw materials to make different objects. For more complex objects, we even need dozens of raw materials, so the path from the initial phase - the search for raw materials to the final product - is long and demanding.
Without computers.