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Long live bamboo sticks
Bamboo is a technique developed by artist Antoon Versteegde. Bamboo sticks are connected with elastic bands to create large works of art. We look at some of his works, and also examine bamboo sticks ourselves to discover what makes them so strong. …
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Become a Styrofoam architect
The students get to work like real architects: after a short introduction to force distribution and strength theory, they learn the different techniques to design and construct an apartment building with our super fun Styrofoam cutters. But their …
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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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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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Heldenflix: Workshop
Why are Netflix series so addictive? The answer lies in the earliest adventure novels and how well they have been preserved or not. In an interactive workshop we teach young people from the fourth to sixth year of secondary education to make …
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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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Tote bag design: Workshop
During a Tote Bag Design Workshop we will design a reusable bag ourselves. We will work with the younger participants with stamps to create a pattern for our carrying bag. For the older participants we start from hand lettering. This way, every …
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Bed animals and camp captains - Vuile vingers
In this blog post you again get a nice corona tip, this time to plan indoors. Have your students pimp and recycle their old clothes with faces and let them make real camp mates for their self-made camp.
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Museums open their doors digitally with adapted teaching materials
All museums are closed, but you can explore the collections in so many educational ways.
Just at moments like these, you can introduce children and young people to museums.Many employees have also developed adapted teaching materials and tips to …
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Let your students taste culture during corona
Let children and young people admire collections and the wide range of performing arts from behind their screens. Cultural institutions pull out all the stops to bring their offerings indoors.
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Spaghetti Bridges: Building and Testing
Building spaghetti bridges is a workshop where children have to make a bridge that spans a certain width using only uncooked spaghetti and a heat glue gun. The group that builds the bridge that can support the most weight without breaking is …
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