Be(e) Engaged! How Students Benefit from an Educational Citizen Science Project on Biodiversity in Their Biology Classes

Citizen Science initiatives and their underlying concepts play an increasingly important role in getting the public interested science current scientific topics—one more reason to include school context. We develop a teaching concept with aim of raising students’ awareness importance wild-bee biodiversity by involving them investigations. By addressing issue, we hope change student’s attitudes towards wild bees as represented common native bumblebees encourage participate pro-environmental behavior (PEB). A total sample size 437 German high-school students from grades five seven participated project. examine knowledge about insect decline, attitude toward bees, PEB intentions before after Learning enjoyment is also measured post-test. Our results show that increases they positively participating Furthermore, although significantly correlate intentions, no strong difference between pre- post-tests can be observed.