|
Teaching and Learning Lab Science Lessons

the Didactic Workshop for Non-fiction Teaching is a place that promotes practical, exploratory and research-based learning. With a wide range of materials and media, the workshop offers inspiration and support for your lesson planning and your own further training.

Sommersemester 2026

Monday: 12-14 o'clock

Tuesday: 12-14 o'clock

Thursday: 10-12 and 14-16 o'clock

Friday: 10-14 o'clock

Wednesday: closed


The Didactic Workshop for Subject Teaching is designed according to the principle of a stimulating learning environment and offers you a methodical learning and working alternative. Active, research-based, exploratory and creative learning take centre stage in the areas of university didactics, teaching research and school practice. There is also a wide range of media and materials available for you to use and borrow!

Video of a tour of the didactic workshop for specialised teaching

Procurement, provision, production and archiving of working materials for experience- and activity-orientated subject teaching. Creating a stimulating media learning environment with exhibition, communication and activity areas. Provision of learning workshop materials for direct use in schools. Use of digital media for study and teaching.

Information on all subject areas of subject teaching and the didactic workshop programmes. Support and advice on planning lessons, analysing materials and seminar papers or theses, etc.

Information, quiet and activity areas: Specialist literature on the didactics of SU, textbooks, non-fiction books, didactic materials, workshop boxes, subject-specific learning software, five multimedia workstations for designing print and digital media and for testing and analysing learning software with Internet access, scanners, printers, digital photo, sound and video technology and corresponding software, foiling device, binding machines, school kitchen; material and display cabinets in front of the workshop.

In the winter semester 1989/90 for students and teachers of general studies.


Verschiedene Materialien

All materials are listed in the inventory lists of the Didaktische Werkstatt Sachunterricht. It is possible to search by title, media type or subject/content and publisher on site.

Please click through our equipment areas and take a look at the lending conditions:

The Didactic Workshop has themed boxes with a wide range of content on selected topics for use in workshop lessons, station-based learning and independent work.

The themed boxes can be borrowed. The varies depending on the size of the box.

Here you can find an

KiNT boxes- childrenlearn scienceand technology. These class boxes deal with various aspects of science and technology and contain objects made of different materials to try out and experiment with. All materials are selected to optimise the children's understanding of the phenomena and give them the opportunity to test their own ideas. The boxes are equipped so that up to 32 children can experiment at the same time! The boxes come with extensive teaching materials (worksheets, slides, etc.) and didactic tips for practical use.

  • "What floats, what sinks?"
  • "What happens to the water in the glass when I immerse something in it?"
  • "How come a ship doesn't sink?"
  • "Why does a piece of iron sink but a piece of wax doesn't?"

  • "Is air actually nothing?"
  • "Can you weigh air?"
  • "How do you compress air?"
  • "Why can you predict the weather?"

  • "How are sounds and noises created?"
  • "Why can you feel sound?"
  • "How does our ear work?" "Does sound need time?"
  • "What actually are sound waves?"
  • "What is noise and why is noise harmful?"
  • "How do musical instruments work?"

  • "How much weight can a bridge carry"?
  • "Why doesn't a carriageway bend?"
  • "What can I use to make a sheet of paper stable?"
  • "How high can I build a tower without it falling over?"
  • "What makes truss bridges stable?"
  • "What makes a suspension bridge hold"
Box contents: Swimming and sinking

The Didactic Workshop has materials that can be found outside the premises in the display cabinets or white cupboards: Models, tools, ....

The materials can be borrowed. The varies depending on the size or number of materials.

Here you can find a

Weiße Schränke mit Materialien

The Didactic Workshop has a number of toy animals that can be borrowed. The varies depending on the number of animals. Here you can find a from the categories Farm, Europe-wide and Worldwide.

Various creepy-crawlies

The Didactic Workshop has regional animal specimens that can be borrowed.
The varies depending on the size of the specimen.

Here you can find a of the available specimens.

Specimen grass snake

3D printers for primary school? Does it make sense and can primary school children even do it?

Anyone who wants to try out 3D printing for themselves and think about and discuss such questions is cordially invited. In WiSe 25/26 you can print during opening hours and get advice from our tutor on Mondays from 12:15-14:00. To prepare for printing, there is a in self-learning mode. You can also do this at the same time as printing in the workshop.

Student sitting in front of 3 printers and holding a plastic roll in her hand

The books are registered in the PH library so that they can be searched via the library catalogue (collection: Did. Werkst. SU). The literature in the DWSU is organised by subject area.

You will find

  • Non-fiction books
  • Children's and picture books
  • Literature on the didactics of subject teaching
  • Journals
Student puts book back on the bookshelf

The digital learning boxes offer you - analogue to our on-site topic boxes - suggestions on selected topics in subject teaching. On the one hand, you will find helpful literature tips and links that can support you in researching the technical background to your topic. On the other hand, the digital learning boxes contain a compilation of exemplary materials available online as well as a list of exemplary materials that you can find on this topic in our workshop or at the PH.

Structure and navigation within the document

Our digital learning boxes are based on the didactic reconstruction model by Gervé (2019). In addition to suggestions for teaching materials, the digital learning boxes also provide you with guidance for planning your lessons.

As the digital learning boxes contain interactive elements, you can navigate through the document at the click of a mouse. You will find the "Go to overview" button on every start page. This will take you to the didactic reconstruction model, which can help you plan your lessons. Clicking on the individual fields will take you to the corresponding pages in the document. On the one hand, these topic pages offer you suggestions on how you can continue working, on the other hand, you will find links to where you can find more in-depth information on this area. If you click on "Back", you will be taken back to the didactic reconstruction page.

Hint

The Digital Learning Kits contain links to pages over whose content the Didactic Workshop for Special Education has no influence. The DWSU is therefore not liable for the content or design of the linked pages or for links that refer to third party pages.

Learning boxes

  • )
Water - Bee - Electricity - Light and shadow

The literature in the Didactic Workshop for General Studies can be borrowed for a maximum of one week with the help of a valid PH library card and can also be extended online by one week. The relevant literature is recorded in the PH library system and can be researched there. If the loan period is exceeded, a reminder will be sent and fees will be charged. Individual works from the Didactic Workshop for Non-fiction Teaching are part of the workshop's reference collection and cannot be loaned out.

The materials in the Didactic Workshop for General Studies can be borrowed from the Didactic Workshop for General Studies for a maximum of one week via a . Below you will find guide prices for the materials, which are paid as a deposit when the materials are borrowed. It is not possible to renew materials by telephone.

Here you will find inspiration for your lessons on various topics.

Feel free to click through the linked articles or videos:

Here you will find collections of materials from the Didaktische Werkstatt Sachunterricht on a selected topic. The "thing" will be replaced with a new one at regular intervals. So take a look and get some inspiration!

Inspiration on the subject: Collecting

  • Combating homophobia and transphobia (PDF, 323 KB)

ZDF Logo