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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.
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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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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Talbot House Poperinge: Literary quest
The intention of the literary search is for students to search alone or in pairs through the house and garden and answer a number of questions about the literary aspects of this historic house.
All answers can be found through online searches (e.g. …
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Songwriting workshop
During a Songwriting workshop we write our own song under the guidance of an experienced singer-songwriter. We can write our own text to an existing melody or we can create a completely new composition.
Naturally, we start with a short brainstorming …
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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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Energy Days
During the training 'Working with renewable energy', after a short theoretical introduction, students start working in small groups to experience for themselves the possibilities and limitations of renewable energy production via sun, …
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Workshop 4: 3,2,1, … Action! How to inspire each other to bring about change as ordinary heroes
A witness tells on video how he saved several lives during the genocide on the Rwandan Tutsi. In what way did other well-known and lesser-known heroes resist in history? And what were the consequences? These stories can inspire us to take an …
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Network security
This workshop is ideal for third grade students with an interest in computer science and engineering.
During this workshop you will learn everything about network security. What is hacking and how can you prevent it? In concrete terms, you will carry …
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