How can Children learn more about nature

TREECOVERY is all about discovering your surrounding environment in Potsdam. In particularity the nature and the trees in your neighbourhood! Guided tours will give you tasks to do and once completed you can see the your own collected tree slowly growing. Once a tour is finished you can move on to find different trees and gather them in your very own journal book!

There is a variance of guided tours you can find on the map. Each of these specific tours feature different trees, once you start a tour you will discover that certain tree. During the tour you will have to walk a certain path on the map, where you can find various tasks and riddles to solve. You may wanna take a look at the tooltips first, they will help you in successfully completing the tour. Make your progress through the tour and see how your personally collected tree is growing. Once finished, you will save your matured tree and all the collected data in the journal book!

There is a variance of guided tours you can find on the map. Each of these specific tours feature different trees, once you start a tour you will discover that certain tree. During the tour you will have to walk a certain path on the map, where you can find various tasks and riddles to solve. You may wanna take a look at the tooltips first, they will help you in successfully completing the tour. Make your progress through the tour and see how your personally collected tree is growing. Once finished, you will save your matured tree and all the collected data in the journal book!

The Journal Book reflects your collections and saves your progress. Think of it like your own personal notebook, where you can write all the things down that you once have seen and experienced. The Journal Book also serves the purpose of collecting individual things like leaves or sticks in it. It functions just like your regular paper notebook: Explore, see things, examine them, gather and stick them in your Journal Book! That way, engaging with the map and gathering information feels just like exploring with your very own paper notebook.

TREECOVERY is designed for children between the age of 8-12. Therefore a simplistic sound design could enhance the usability of the map for smaller kids that are still unable to read and write. Henceforth the map is limited in its written information and will rather focus on illustrations and simple accompanying text.

TREECOVERY is designed for children between the age of 8-12. Therefore a simplistic sound design could enhance the usability of the map for smaller kids that are still unable to read and write. Henceforth the map is limited in its written information and will rather focus on illustrations and simple accompanying text.

TREECOVERY is designed for children between the age of 8-12. Therefore a simplistic sound design could enhance the usability of the map for smaller kids that are still unable to read and write. Henceforth the map is limited in its written information and will rather focus on illustrations and simple accompanying text.

How could this map be used and improved in the future? Certainly the map is designed to be used in a guided way through the tours. Most of the guided tours will fit into a one hour long school lecture. Therefore it could be a reasonable conclusion to focus mainly on schools which want to go on an exploration or hiking day with the kids. The kids then could use the map by themselves, being guided solely by the map, but could also ask teachers in case there is an occurence of problems related to the map and its usability for the specific age groups.