ESG students have the opportunity to use many MINT learning locations outside of school. The following offers are regularly offered:
- Experimental kitchen and exhibitions at the German Museum Bonn as well as the opportunity to acquire a laboratory driving license
- Museum school and exhibition of the Zoological Research Museum Alexander König as well as joint projects such as the taxonomy workshop and offers for high school graduates in biology
- Experiment days and taster university in chemistry in thestudent laboratory of the chemical institutes of the University of Cologne
- Workshops in thestudent laboratory of the physics institutes of the University of Cologne
- Workshops in thestudent laboratory of the Caesar Bonn Research Center
- Workshops at Telekom’sDigital@School Campus
- Tours and workshops in theBotanical Garden of the University of Bonn
- House of Nature Bonn
- Tours and workshops in the Flora Cologne
- Odysseum Cologne
- Tours and workshops in the Cologne Zoo with monkey house and rainforest house
- MS Science with its learning stations
- Forest School Forester Kottenforst
- Tours and workshops in the Centre for Aerospace CologneBonn
- Tours and workshops at the Jülich Research Center
- Leyenhof, farm with controlled organic farming
- Workshops in the Infosphere school laboratory at RWTH Aachen
- Guided tours of thewaste incineration plant in Bonn and Cologne
- Guided tours of theBonn sewage treatment plant
MINT-mobile
Every year, two to six learning groups also have the opportunity to use the MINT-mobile offers. The MINT-mobile supports biology lessons in secondary schools I and II with curriculum-relevant content. It enables a practical transfer between school and university – students from the Biozentrum of the University of Cologne come to our school with newly developed workshop concepts. Our students’ thirst for research is encouraged with exciting experiments. The topics offered are very diverse. These have included in recent years
- Squid – survival artists in coastal waters
- “yuck – spiders”
- Our five senses – how do they help, how do they deceive?
- Neurobiology: the body schema in the cerebral cortex – search for causes for
mental illnesses
- Separate and avoid waste? Opportunities and limits of waste management using the example of plastic recycling!
Our students take advantage of the opportunity to take part in MINT holiday camps.
Examples:
- A holiday camp organized by the German Aerospace Center focused on weightlessness, the work of astronauts, stars, comets, planets, ESA missions and the history of astronomy. The first day began with a lecture, followed by student experiments on the topic in the air laboratory. and space center. The experiments continued on the second day and the crowning conclusion was the visit to ESA with the astronauts’ training hall with the water training pool and the visit of the control center MUSC, where was informed about the Mars mission and the current ESA mission.
- As part of our MINT profile (mathematics, computer science, natural sciences, technology), three students from our school had the opportunity to take part in a research camp. They reported for the ESG homepage: We met on Friday, November 30th at 6:20 a.m. at Bonn main station to travel together to the science college in Jülich. Despite several delays in changing trains, we arrived on time and went straight to the laboratory after a brief greeting. We trained in using the Bunsen burner and examined different substances in direct and indirect contact (in a test tube) with the flame. This is how we found out the difference between distilled water and tap water. We dissolved various substances in water, which we then allowed to evaporate. In between we also moved into our “luxury rooms” and had delicious meals in Haus Overbach. In the evening there was a lecture with lots of pictures from space. and then we were able to see the Pleiades through the telescope on the roof terrace. The next day we continued with many exciting experiments. We examined our dried solutions and other crystals and stones with the microscope and experimented with acids and alkalis. And finally we examined some foods and addressed questions such as: “What happens to food in your stomach? How long does an egg on Mount Everest take to cook?” On Saturday evening we arrived back at the Bonn train station, but we would all have liked to stay in Jülich longer.
