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Discovering wild beesGrades 5–7
The Secret World of Wild Bees
How many bees there are – and why flowers need them.
Learning Worlds · Education for Sustainable Development
Fascinating Wild Bees.
20 interactive 360° learning worlds from the brood cell to an action plan for school and municipality: species, ways of life, pollination and protection. Focus on lower secondary level.
Module Structure
Every learning world at a glance.
10–15 minutes
Each learning world fits into a single lesson.
5 panoramas
Five 360° scenes with hotspots, images and short videos.
Written + spoken
Narration for every scene, also available as text.
Hotspots & slideshows
In every scene, hotspots open images, short videos and explanations – in any order.
Quiz
Five single-choice questions with feedback, including questions that weigh up options.
PLUS for fast learners
Optional extension after the quiz, not needed for the core objectives.
Hardware-independent use
VR headset
Tablet
Laptop
Digital board
Web player (accessible)
PDF
H5P/LMS
20 learning worlds
SDGs:
Concept catalogue, October 2026. All 20 learning worlds are planned didactically. Each one is produced as soon as it is funded.
Learning worlds 14–18 look at the wildlife garden from the wild bees' point of view. The garden as a whole – soil, water, woody plants, other animal groups – is covered by the separate Wildlife Gardens catalogue.
Recommended start:
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Discovering wild beesGrades 5–7
Wild Bee or Honeybee?
How to tell bees, bumblebees and wasps apart – and what divides them.
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Discovering wild beesGrades 5–7
Brush, Basket, Tongue – How Wild Bees Are Built
How differently wild bees are built – and what their brushes are for.
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Discovering wild beesGrades 5–7
From Egg to Wild Bee
What happens inside a brood cell – and why the mother is absent.
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Discovering wild beesGrades 5–7
A Home for the Next Generation
Where wild bees nest – and why the ground matters.
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Understanding ways of lifeGrades 5–7
The Secret Life of the Mason Bee
How a mason bee builds her nest alone – cell by cell.
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Understanding ways of lifeGrades 5–7
Bumblebees – the Social Wild Bees
How a bumblebee colony begins – and why cold barely matters.
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Understanding ways of lifeGrades 5–7
Flowers and Pollination
How pollen travels from flower to flower – and seeds form.
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Understanding ways of lifeGrades 7–10
Specialists among Wild Bees
Why some bees use only one plant – and depend on it.
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Understanding ways of lifeGrades 5–7
Wild Bees through the Year
When each wild bee flies – and where it spends the winter.
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Importance and threatsGrades 5–7
Wild Bees and Our Food
Which fruit blossoms wild bees pollinate – and why honeybees are not enough.
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Importance and threatsGrades 7–10
Threats to Wild Bees
What wild bees lose in farmland – and which protection works.
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Importance and threatsGrades 7–10
Wild Bees in Towns and Villages
Where wild bees live between houses – and how green spaces connect them.
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Importance and threatsGrades 5–10
The Wild-Bee-Friendly Natural Garden
How lawn and gravel become a wild bee garden – step by step.
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Importance and threatsGrades 5–7
A Flower Buffet from March to October
What has to bloom from March to October – and where hunger gaps arise.
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Shaping habitatsGrades 5–7
Creating Nest Sites in the Natural Garden
Where wild bees nest in the garden – and which bee hotel works.
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Shaping habitatsGrades 5–7
Less Tidiness, More Life
Why tidying up harms wild bees – and what can be left standing.
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Shaping habitatsGrades 7–10
The Natural Garden as an Ecosystem
Who in the garden lives off wild bees – and what they live off.
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Shaping habitatsGrades 7–10
Wild Bees and Climate Change
Who suffers from heat and drought – and which wild bees are spreading.
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Shaping habitatsGrades 7–10
What Really Helps Wild Bees
What really makes a site bee-friendly – and what falls short.
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Learning Worlds
4
Topic Areas
5
SDGs Covered
100
Planned 360° Scenes
For Foundations & Sponsors
Sponsorship
Making education freely accessible.
A foundation or company sponsors a learning world for one or three years and makes it free for schools to use during that time — on tablets, computers, interactive whiteboards and VR headsets.
Sponsor a learning world
For €1,000 (one year) or €3,000 (three years) a learning world from this catalogue is produced and made freely accessible to all schools for that period — with visible credit as a sponsor.
High-quality & immersive
Visually and linguistically immersive, didactically sound — a learning world that brings the funded topic to life. Online and offline in the free VR-Suite player.
Free for schools
During the sponsorship, schools use the learning world free of charge — in the browser, on the interactive whiteboard, on tablets and in VR headsets.
Every learning world in this catalogue is planned in terms of content and didactics: learning objectives, key terms, scenes and curriculum links are defined. Sponsorship pays for production — 360° scenes, narration, quiz and tasks.
For Teachers
Quickly check whether a module fits your lesson.
Since all modules follow the same compact basic structure, the decisive question is the content fit and the specific learning value of VR for that topic.
Consistent module structure
All modules follow the same compact format and are therefore easy to place in existing lesson sequences.
Focus on real learning value
The key question is not whether VR looks impressive, but where a spatially coherent 360° experience helps learners understand relationships more clearly than flat media.
School connection at a glance
Learning goals, SDGs and school relevance can be checked directly at the module level.
For the 'Why 360° / VR?' check, we focus above all on whether a module offers a real medium-specific advantage over textbook, worksheet or video. That benefit can already emerge in a browser-based 360° tour; the headset mainly increases immersion.
Make relationships visibleSpatial learningEmotional relevancePerspective changeNarrative embeddingLife-world connectionHard-to-reach placesShared discussion basis
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