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Become a WaterWise class or school: Traject
Become a WaterWise class or school from September 2024. Take up the challenge together to teach students to make sustainable choices and thus reduce their water footprint at school in terms of food, clothing, paper, direct water... This is how we …
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Prehistoric clothing workshop
Hunter-gatherers were already able to make well-fitting clothing from animal skins. The archaeological find that can tell us more about this is Ötzi, the oldest mummy ever excavated in Europe and extremely interesting because of the outfit in …
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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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The Soundmaker
In recent months, the former F-Experience Museum in Heuvelland has been transformed into De Klankmakerij. You compete with each other on the basis of hands-on assignments and sound games. Anyone who has gone through all the stages of 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.
Preschoolers and students in the …
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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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