School Education
OWLHK Preschool Environmental Education Series
Our environmental education activities are designed by our professional team in accordance with the developmental needs of young children and the local education curriculum. They are suitable for parent-children participation as well. Through interactive and self-motivated exploration educational activities, children can get in touch and connect with nature and cultivate an affection for environmental protection.
Insects’ Moving Castle – to learn about Insect Pollinators
Insect pollinators are an essential part of the ecosystem. This workshop provides a creative and diverse learning experience for K3 kindergarten children. They will learn about the importance and behaviour of insect pollinators, turning misunderstanding or fear into curiosity! They will have hands-on handicraft making their own “Insect Hotel” to provide nurseries for solitary bees in the city to recover urban ecology.
Forest Walk and Learn - to experience our local Forest
Nature is a fantastic classroom! Children or families are encouraged to slow down and explore the forests of Hong Kong. Through interactive games, the activity arouses children's interest to the environment surrounding them. They will learn about different elements inside a forest as well as observe and appreciate wildlife using their five senses.
Professional Development and Training for Preschool Education Teachers
Based on the Learning Area “Nature and Living” in the Kindergarten Education Curriculum Guide, this training is designed to enhance teachers’ awareness of local ecology and biodiversity through interactive lectures, field trips and indoor workshops. The training aims to strengthen teachers’ expertise in the theory and practice of environmental education, as well as to practice various teaching skills with useful examples of different teaching approaches.
ECF Insect Pollination Ecology Education Programme
When it comes to insect pollinators, our first impression is always bees. Yet, do you know that pollination does not rely on bees only? Via the “ECF Insect Pollination Ecology Education Programme”, we wish to promote the ecology and diversity of insect pollinators in Hong Kong. To lead woodside field trips for various age groups, encourage them to experience and understand the importance of insect pollinators.
Meanwhile, the brand new ecological conservation tool "Insect Hotel" is used as the main element throughout the programme. It encourages students to observe wild insect pollinators proactively and take the initiative in urban insect pollinator conservation.
OWLHK Environmental Education for Primary Schools
Our environmental education projects are designed and prepared by professional team according to Hong Kong’s curriculum, which are suitable to all local primary and secondary schools. Through interactive, engaging and student-initiated education activities, students can enjoy and be more devoted in learning. Meanwhile, most of the activities include field trips, which assure exposure to nature in order to connect students with nature.
Contact us for tailormade activities! (Currently the programme language is available in Chinese only.)
OWLHK Environmental Education for Secondary Schools
Our environmental education projects are designed and prepared by professional team according to Hong Kong’s curriculum, which are suitable to all local primary and secondary schools. Through interactive, engaging and student-initiated education activities, students can enjoy and be more devoted in learning. Meanwhile, most of the activities include field trips, which assure exposure to nature in order to connect students with nature.
Contact us for tailormade activities! (Currently the programme language is available in Chinese only.)
Insect Hotel and Pollinating Insects - School Educational Program
"Insect hotels" can serve as vital conservation measure for urban insects, particularly solitary bees, by providing them with a nursery. Additionally, insect hotels may function as a significant educational platform to introduce insect ecology and crucial roles of pollinating insects in Hong Kong's ecosystem to students, teachers and event parents. Through a variety of educational and citizen science activities, students’ fear and misconception about insects can be overcome. A more comprehensive understanding of these fascinating creatures can be achieved. The curriculum adopts diverse learning formats, such as indoor classes, handicraft workshops, ecological surveys, and insect hotel survey ambassador training. Students are engaged and equipped to discover the enthralling aspects of insects.
Butterfly Ecology Course - School Educational Program
The Butterfly Ecology Course aims to introduce students to the local butterfly and plant ecology, while also inspiring them to take an active role in ecological conservation. Through a combination of indoor classes and outdoor surveys, students gain insights into basic insect ecology, Hong Kong butterfly ecology, the interdependence between butterflies and plants, as well as butterfly ecological crises and conservation. If butterfly gardens are present at schools, the curriculum can be customized to include a range of school-based activities that complement the garden and enhance the whole learning experience.
OWLHK Environmental Education for Primary Schools - Other Special Topics
OWLHK offers a diverse range of environmental education activities with various themes, including different ecological environments, flora and fauna. Our activity forms and group sizes are flexible and can be tailored to meet the specific needs of each school, ensuring a student-centered and enjoyable learning experience that delivers optimal teaching effectiveness.
OWLHK Secondary School Environmental Education Series - Other Special Education Programs
OWLHK offers diverse environmental education activities of various themes, covering different ecological environments, flora and fauna. The activity formats and group sizes are adjustable to fulfil different needs of schools, ensuring a student-centered and enjoyable learning experience with optimal teaching effectiveness.
OWLHK Primary School Environmental Education Series - Inter-form Activities
Our Environmental Education Activities offer flexibility in arrangements, with accordance to schools’ themes, time and location. Our programs could reduce the administrative work and assist teachers organize grade-wide trips, comprehensive learning, experiential learning activities and project-based learning.
OWLHK Secondary School Environmental Education Series - Inter-form Activities
Our Environmental Education Activities offer flexibility in arrangements, with accordance to schools’ themes, time and location. Our programs could reduce the administrative work and assist teachers organize grade-wide trips, comprehensive learning, experiential learning activities and project-based learning.
Professional Development and Training for Primary School Teachers
We firmly believe that environmental education can only achieve its overall effectiveness in society if it is integrated into school curriculums, with teachers playing a crucial role in this endeavor. Therefore, we prioritize collaboration and co-learning with the government bureaus, teacher training institutions, and schools to promote the professional development of teachers in environmental education. Our professional environmental education team is skilled in designing and leading a range of training activities that are customized to meet each school's specific needs, thereby helping them to effectively promote school-based environmental education.
Professional Development and Training for Secondary School Teachers
We firmly believe that environmental education can only achieve its overall effectiveness in society if it is integrated into school curriculums, with teachers playing a crucial role in this endeavor. Therefore, we prioritize collaboration and co-learning with the government bureaus, teacher training institutions, and schools to promote the professional development of teachers in environmental education. Our professional environmental education team is skilled in designing and leading a range of training activities that are customized to meet each school's specific needs, thereby helping them to effectively promote school-based environmental education.
Hong Kong Insect Ecology Programme for Gifted Students
Insects are so tiny, yet play a crucial role in the ecosystem! Based on insect ecology. This programme is designed to reinforce the knowledge of ecology and biodiversity in gifted primary students, and to develop their skills in carrying out scientific research and devising relevant applications. In the long term, it aims to establish students’ positive attitude and value towards the environment.
Secondary School Ecology Board Game Education Programme
Funded by Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) Subventions for Biodiversity Education (2022). Secondary students were trained to be ecology board game ambassadors and equipped with butterfly or intertidal ecology knowledge, along with the skill of leading board games. After training, ambassadors held ecology board game learning activities for their fellow schoolmates to promote Hong Kong’s ecology and biodiversity through the means of game education.
Walk with Nature: Ecological Conservation Leadership Programme
The Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education (HKAGE) and OWLHK co-organized the Environmental Science Course (Level IV) - Walk with Nature: Ecological Conservation Leadership Programme. The programme was held for S.1 to S.5 HKAGE student members in the summer of 2022. During the programme, students not only could learn about the biodiversity and local ecological system in Hong Kong, but also explore different topics on environmental conservation. They eventually designed and implemented their own nature conservation projects.
Environmental Education Programme - Green Prefect Programme 2022/23
Sponsored by the Environment and Conservation Fund and jointly organised by the Environmental Campaign Committee, the Environmental Protection Department and the Education Bureau, the Green Prefect (GP) Programme aims to facilitate schools in developing a group of GPs who can act as models in embracing green living for their peers, enhance students’ environmental awareness and encourage them to build up green habits on campus.
Forest Ecology Board Game Education Programme
With funding from Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department in 2018, OWLHK implemented the Forest Ecology Board Game Education Programme. Using board game, “Law of the Forest”, as the main teaching method, primary school students were able to learn about Hong Kong’s biodiversity effectively and increase their awareness on environmental conservation.
Wildlife Videography Education Programme -
Little Wildlife Director
Through focusing on local wildlife documentaries, primary school students learnt about Hong Kong’s habitat diversity and biodiversity. Coupling with primary education curriculum, students formed groups and made use of local wildlife clips, creativity and the ecological concepts they learnt, to create story and present it in a one-minute wildlife video.
ECF Exploring WILD Lantau -
"Discover the Wild Lantau Activity Day” for Primary and Secondary School Students
(Plant theme)
Adventures in Lantau! In 2019’s early summer, we brought primary school students to Shui Hau in Lantau for "Discover the Wild Lantau Activity Day”. Through indoor interactive talk and outdoor orienteering game "A Day in Shui Hau", students learnt about the ecology of Lantau and experienced village culture in the old days via role-play.
Forest Ecologist
The program Forest Ecologist is an activity of OWLHK Environmental Education for Secondary Schools, leading students into the forest and experiencing forest research. In the indoor lecture, students will learn about local vegetation changes and global forest observation studies that Hong Kong has participated in. After acquiring some basic knowledge, students will visit Tai Po Kau Nature Reserve, one of the most mature secondary forests in Hong Kong. They will then conduct field visit in small groups to observe secondary forests and plantation forests.
Ant Agents
Using ants, one of the most common insects in urban area, as theme, OWLHK designed a one-day outdoor field trip programme on NSS Biology. Via field trips in both urban and rural area exploring ant diversity, ecology and habitats, students learnt about Hong Kong’s biodiversity which achieve subject learning and environmental education.
ECF Exploring WILD Lantau -
"Discover the Wild Lantau Activity Day” for Primary and Secondary School Students
(Plant theme)
Due to the remote location, most of the students have never visited rural areas in Lantau. Therefore, we brought secondary school students to Shui Hau in Lantau in early summer 2019. With an outdoor orienteering game, “Granny’s Secret”, as the core of the activity, students learnt about local culture, plants, habitat diversity, biodiversity and sustainable development.
ECF Exploring WILD Lantau -
"Discover the Wild Lantau Activity Day” for Primary and Secondary School Students
(Herp theme)
Pui O in Lantau is an important wetland habitat. As abandoned farmlands are paradise for wildlife, Pui O has high ecological and conservation value. In early summer 2019, OWLHK brought secondary school students to Pui O to play an outdoor orienteering game, "The Guardians of Pui O", in which they learnt about local culture, amphibians and reptiles and their ecology, and sustainable development of Lantau.
Outdoor Board Game Activity Day for Secondary School Students
Board games are not limited to indoor activity! OWLHK organized "ECF Joyful learning in forest ecology - Board game．Outdoor．Environmental Education" to let F.1 to F.3 students learn about and gain interest in local forest ecology and biodiversity. We have designed and held 30 sessions of field trip activity using our board game "Law of the Forest" as theme, involving over 800 students.
ECF Hong Kong Forest Conservation Ambassador Scheme -
Secondary School Student Training and On-campus Project Implementation
80 secondary school students from 20 schools joined the 6-days training from January to July. Throughout the training, they had to implement a series of on-campus project under tertiary student tutors’ guidance, including audit of paper use, video production, on-campus tree tour, workshop, booth and more, in order to practice what they have learnt in the training.
Gifted Education Fund: Off-school Advanced Learning Programme
Urban Ecology x GIS: Talent Education Programme for Gifted Students
The Urban Ecology x GIS: Talent Education Programme for Gifted Students aims to strengthen the understanding of ecology and biodiversity in gifted students. Through a series of training sessions, students will develop their research skills on urban vegetation, birds, insects, amphibians, and reptiles. Students will utilise Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to collect and represent ecological data for the purpose of environmental conservation.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Wildlife & Animal Caring Society - Tai Po Kau Daytime Ecotour
In May 2024, we guided 15 tertiary students to travel to Tai Po Kau Nature Reserve, exploring the local ecology. It could enhance tertiary students’ understanding of local forest, as well as the flora and fauna. Under the explanations of our instructors, they learned about native wild plant species like Ivy Tree and Chinese Sweet Gum. On the other hand, they observed various butterflies and birds, sensing the biodiversity of local ecology profoundly.
The Education University of Hong Kong Student Affairs Office - EdUTeer “Eco Master!”- Green Volunteer and Community Education
We organized a Forest Ecology Activity Day and a Free Ocean Day for the Student Affairs Office of the Education University of Hong Kong. It enhanced students’ understanding of local ecology and environmental education, and prepare them with inspirations to design on-campus activities for primary school students.
Science Unit of Lingnan University - Forest Ecology Field Trip
Invited by Science Unit of Lingnan University, during 2023-2024, we held several forest ecology field trips. We led the university students to visit Tai Po Kau Nature Reserve and Aberdeen Country Park. Students learned about local forest ecology, and realized the importance of nature to human.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Wildlife & Animal Caring Society - Night Ecology Field Trip
In 2022-2023, we organized 3 night-safari trips for the Wildlife & Animal Caring Society from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Leading the university students to observe local nocturnal animals, together, we discovered the mysterious side of fireflies, amphibians and reptiles.
Exploring the Urban Ant Diversity -
Training for Tertiary Students
This programme coupled with NSS Biology curriculum, invited tertiary students to join and be trained to be activity tutor. From classroom to rural area, students learnt about urban ecology with ants as example. Utilizing the process of scientific investigation, including designing experiments, using tools to observe nature and discussing experimental data in groups, their understanding on urban biodiversity and related conservation issues was deepen.
Wildlife Videography Education Programme -
Wildlife Filmmaking Workshop
Led by professional wildlife photographers, participants learnt about Hong Kong’s ecology and then tried outdoor photography. With professional demonstration on wildlife photography skills and guidance on how to apply what they have learnt, we encouraged tertiary students to use their talents to document wildlife in Hong Kong and add this element in arts.
Ting Kok+ Ambassador
Since 2019, OWLHK became the service provide for AFCD’s Ting Kok+ Ambassador, each year a total of 30 students joined this programme that includes lectures and field studies, to learn about coastal ecology, biodiversity and conservation around Tolo, and also soft skills such as interpretation and environmental education methods and technique. After the completion of trainings, being the Ting Kok+ Ambassador, they need to patrol coastal sites around Ting Kok.
ECF Hong Kong Forest Conservation Ambassador Scheme -
Tutor Training for Tertiary Students
A total of forty students joined this intense and all-rounded training that led by local experts, to understand the application of forest functions and daily life, ecology and biodiversity, vegetation composition and transition, challenges of forest conservation, and learning how to lead secondary school teams to complete their environmental education project.
Intergeneration Lantau Eco-classroom
(Plant theme)
Many people feel like there is no way to begin with learning plant identification due to the high diversity of plants in Hong Kong. In order to let tertiary students learn more about local plants, we organized Intergeneration Lantau Eco-classroom in Lantau in “ECF Exploring WILD Lantau” for 40 students. Coupling indoor lectures with outdoor field trips, they learnt about plant ecology and ecology of Lantau through professional trainings.
Intergeneration Lantau Eco-classroom
(Herp theme)
Every time summer comes, we seize the opportunity to observe amphibians and reptiles. In order to let tertiary students learn more about local amphibians and reptile, we brought 40 students to wetlands in Lantau in “ECF Exploring WILD Lantau” for night-time field trips. Together with indoor lectures, they learnt about ecology of Lantau and were trained to be eco-tutors.
Lantau Freshwater Ecology Classroom -
Tutor Training for Tertiary Students
(Stream theme)
With interactive and outdoor learning as guiding principles, we collaborated with local freshwater ecology experts to organized a tutor training for 20 tertiary students. We brought them to streams in Lantau for field trips and ecological surveys, which they learnt about freshwater ecology and biodiversity. Coupled with indoor lectures, they were trained to be tutors who would be guiding citizen science surveys, practicing what they have learnt.
ECF Joyful learning in forest ecology -
Board game．Outdoor．Environmental Education - Activity Tutor Training for Tertiary Students
To promote the diversification and popularization of environmental education, we provided ecology and board game training for 60 tertiary students (including students studying majors not related to ecology like nursing and arts). Participants acquired knowledge out of their specialty and learnt about Hong Kong’s biodiversity. Through guiding field trips for secondary school students, participants practiced what they have learnt by teaching others.
ECF Hong Kong Ecology Board Game Ambassador Scheme
Through workshops, field trips, experts-matching and board game design, we trained tertiary students to take the initiative to learn about local ecology and further study disciplines they are interested in. Subsequently, we empowered them to design board games which use biodiversity of Hong Kong as theme, as well as to lead the environmental education activity with their products.
ECF Free Ocean Action Plan
ECF Free Ocean Action Plan gives training to local tertiary students about the ocean and coastal ecology, marine debris, as well as environmental education skills and techniques. Students will then be the tutors of “Free Ocean Day” for community and students, to expand the influence up to the public level, and to raise the public awareness towards waste reduction at source and ocean conservation.