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Gravity: Workshop
What if gravity didn't exist? Can we function in a state of weightlessness?
During this workshop we will work experimentally. You not only experience gravity but also learn how gravity works and what it does to you. Your creative brain is also …
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Rocket Science: Workshop
Roll up your sleeves and build a rocket that will shatter all records.
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Using simple instructions, the students build a water rocket. They can decorate these themselves and then launch them themselves under the guidance of the rocket master. …Translated by
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Build your first mini satellite: Raspberry Pi for beginners
Learn to perform measurements on an unmanned flight:
- use a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller;
- initiation for real beginners, no prior knowledge or experience required;
- explanation and practical exercises, under the guidance of an experienced …
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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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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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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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Kei-Cool: An exhibition about rocks and minerals
Can rocks melt? And how do tectonic plates shift?
You will learn this and much more in this permanent exhibition in The World of Kina:
- take the elevator to the core of the earth and discover how the earth is constructed;
- plate tectonics, …
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The honeybee: Exhibition in The world of Kina, the Garden
In The World of Kina: the Garden, the Ghent nature museum for children and young people, one of the museum rooms is completely dedicated to the hard worker, the honey bee.
Honey bees are our smallest pets. On warm, sunny days they fly tirelessly from …
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Spiders-Spinsels: Exhibition
In the Spider-Spinsels exhibition you get an overview of spiders and their relatives. You discover how a male seduces a female, how spiders molt
and how the webs evolved over time. In the cinema you can watch a film about spiders.Get to know the …
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Plant cuttings: Workshop
Roll up your sleeves during this workshop in The World of Kina: the Garden, the Ghent nature museum for children and young people.
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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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