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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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STEM computer: STEM project
This project aims to stimulate computational thinking in primary education and the transition to secondary education. To this end, twenty practical examples are elaborated that are illustrative of a STEM approach with integration of computational …
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Getting started with Whizzkids, ICT integration in the classroom: Training
What about all those computers in the classroom? How can you use them efficiently in the classroom?
To reduce the digital divide, Whizzkids organizes free ICT competitions integrated within the final objectives. The pedagogical and didactic use of ICT …
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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.
Plants can multiply without the intervention of seeds. That way
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Science behind the bath bombs: Workshop
In this workshop the children each put together their own bath bomb with scents and colors of their own choosing. While they are messing around together, they also learn something about the science behind the bath bomb.
Why is he buzzing anyway? And …
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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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Primitive dance
During this workshop, the children explore what their body can do, as it were, and learn to move purely by feeling. Sometimes slow, then exciting again, the music takes the children on a journey through all kinds of rhythms and sounds.
There are …
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Movement expression
A workshop that is also suitable for teachers during team building or further training.
In this workshop we will work with all the big (and small) emotions. We investigate how we can use our entire body and voice to express those emotions. We try out …Translated by
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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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Mushrooms: Exhibition
In The world of Kina: de Tuin, the Ghent nature museum for children and young people, you will find a museum room about mushrooms. You will discover the answer to questions such as:
- What are fungi?
- Where does the name mushroom come from? …
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Climate change: Scientific workshop
Every day we hear news about record temperatures, melting ice caps, or floods like last summer. Through this workshop, students discover the causes and consequences of climate change.
In this workshop, students are prepared to become real …
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