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The Wonderful Walk with audio guide through Ghent
The Wonderful Walk introduces your 9 to 14-year-old students to Ghent while exploring. You will complete STEM assignments at seven stops. How do you measure the height of the statue of Jacob Van Artevelde with its shadow? Learn about colors in the …
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Texts and assignments with Artificial Intelligence (AI): Multi-day training
This course focuses on the possibility of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education.
In the first session we discuss the many possibilities but also the difficulties (such as copyright) and limitations of ChatGPT.
In the second session we generate …
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Themed tour Hatsjoe… health: About health, hygiene and pandemics in Roman times
There is no denying that Covid-19 is having an unprecedented impact on our society. The Romans too were repeatedly plagued by ruthless epidemics. Based on the attributes of the Roman physician Galenus and the Goddess Hygieia, we take young and old …
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Exploring the carillon of the University Library in Leuven
Did you know that the carillon is a Flemish invention (anno 1510!) and that Leuven belongs to the worldwide top with five carillons? Discover all about this enormous instrument with your class during a visit to the library tower. The carillon in …
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Expedition tool
There's more to a song than you think, namely… instruments. Instruments are needed to make music. Have you ever blown on a trombone, a clarinet or a flute? Also the stringed instruments should not be missing: cello, violin, guitar… …
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Megadrummer orchestra
The group discovers the ten basic rhythms using:
- blocks,
- sticks,
- to call,
- castanets,
- pots,
- pans
- our own body.
After this search, we puzzle together into one big whole and make our own beat. Some dance steps will not be missing.
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Rubbish recycling orchestra
A pep bottle, beer bottle, crown cap, old ladle, plate, glass, PVC tube… We sort the waste and discover how we can reuse waste to craft our own musical instrument. Hammer, nails, drills, screws, etc. are our best friends and we close the …
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GUM for teachers: Educational offer
Schools can go to the GUM for interactive tours and workshops about scientific thinking and the way you do science. The GUM challenges a critical view and stimulates scientific literacy. What exactly does a scientist do? Is a researcher allowed to …
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The human body: Exhibition
In The world of Kina: the House, the nature museum for children and young people, you will find two museum rooms about the human body.
You can visit the halls with a guide, or accompany your class group independently.
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Evolution of Man: Exhibition
In The World of Kina you see with your own eyes that modern man did not arrive immediately. He is the result of a long evolution, from great ape to Homo sapiens sapiens. We cannot really call the first in line human. They had more features of an …
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The classroom of that time: Experience workshop
The School of Then is a museum about the history of education. Visitors can (re)experience the school atmosphere of that time. We collect and display a broad educational collection.
In the workshop 'The Class of Then', the children experience what …
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Eyewitness: Lecture
An eyewitness can irreplaceably evoke an image of the past. In the person of an eyewitness, the memory of the war becomes real. In this way, past and present are connected. Huis Over Grenzen can provide an eyewitness on both a historical and …
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