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Interdisciplinary learning and hands-on learning

Brain research has shown that information is better processed if it is linked to activities of the student or several different subject matters. A practical approach to learning and interdisciplinary learning both help the student to better retain the information learned. Younger children especially need hands-on learning with a whole body approach and a play-based setting. They learn best if they can be shown activities that clarify the concepts, e.g. mixing primary colors to get secondary colors; setting up the problem of painting an orange given only the colors red and yellow or letting them explore the shapes of different skulls to explain the difference in vision of each animal. For older students, interdisciplinary-learning helps make complex matters more easily accessible, e.g. mathematical concepts that are illustrated in the fields of physics or biology or contact with exchange partners in foreign languages.