An interactive education platform which enable to observe honeybees in real time via computer. It makes possible nearly every form of investigation: A short visit to the honeybee colony with technical equipment like webcams, sensors, endoscopes and thermovision allows access to the bee colony around the clock. These data, together with data on the weather and vegetation (like measurement of the water demand of the plants) not only are presented live, but can be used offline as well. HOBOS also allows for ambitious long-term projects, which support independent work and inquiry-based learning

Description and Primary aims - German:

Ein speziell für diese Anforderungen konstruierter Bienenstock ist mit Sensoren, Messgeräten und mehreren Kameras, auch Wärmebildkamera, ausgestattet. Alle Daten sind online abrufbar, werden aber auch langfristig gespeichert. Auch live kann der Bienenstock und alle erhobenen Messerte (Temperatur, Gewicht...) beobachtet werde. Dadurch werden einmalige Einblicke in den Superorganismus Bienenstaat gewärt und für alle Zielgruppen verständlich dargestellt.

Didactical hours:

Pedagogical context

Engaging in scientific reasoning:

Exploring

Predicting

Questioning

Observing

Analysing

Educational Objective:

Inquiry cycle:

Teacher ICT competency level:

Level of difficulty:

Medium (Teacher Guidance is needed at some stages of the process)

Level of interaction:

Medium (Users may choose over a number of parameters to manipulate)

Supporting students with learning difficulties ans special needs:

Learning disabilities

No specific provisions

User manual link:

Manual

Technical description

Technical requirements:

CC – Zero (universal) - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Suitable for Mobile Devices?:

Not suitable

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