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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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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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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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Discoverit: Microworld
With this learning tool, your classroom will be transformed into a laboratory for two hours. With the aim of having students work like real researchers with professional equipment.
A selection from the experiments:
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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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Printing techniques workshop
During a Printing Techniques Workshop we will work with a printing technique of your choice. Our visual artist will guide you through the world of collography or rubber printing. Both are a form of letterpress printing.
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Workshop: Painting in the style of ...
During a Workshop Painting in the style of ... we choose a well-known (or less well-known) painter as a source of inspiration for this painting workshop.
We start with a brief introduction of the chosen painter. Then we observe some of his/her …
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Workshop: Making Collage
During a Collage Making Workshop we will work with paper, scissors and glue. We start with a stack of magazines, old photos, used wrapping paper, greeting cards, etc. The participants learn to observe. What is a beautiful image? What attracts …
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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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Get yourself in and out of the knot
Need a surprising piece of math? In this workshop we will work with knots: we dance ropes into knots and try to puzzle them apart again. Not an easy task... until we represent these nodes as numbers. With that surprising connection, we can …
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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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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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