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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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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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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: Astronaut Workshop
This learning resource turns your classroom into an astronaut training center for two hours. The purpose of this is to enable students to work with:
- an electrical circuit,
- solar energy,
- Newton's action-reaction law.
Experiments they conduct:
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Workshop: Writing Poetry
During the Poetry Writing workshop we learn how to write a poem that leaves no one unmoved . We start with a number of basic exercises around rhyme, style, sound and rhythm. We then go into more detail about the message we want to communicate …
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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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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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Movement and science: Activity boxes
We come to you with about fifteen activity boxes. These are quickly spread out into as many interactive corners where students can explore the world of music, movement and science in general. The classroom is transformed into one large laboratory.
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Musical: Workshop
Do you want to shine like the stars on Broadway? Do you want to sing, dance and act? During a musical workshop, all these artistic competencies are touched upon. We choose songs from a well-known musical and together we create a musical scene that …
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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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In the Green House: STEM workshops
The Green House is a learning environment in Petrus and Paulus Ostend where students are challenged to set up experiments, process their data and formulate solutions. This is done in an innovative way by using sensors that, in addition to the …
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