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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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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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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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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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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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Disabled in South America: Can I do something about it?
Young people with disabilities in South America need our help. After a theoretical PowerPoint presentation and some visual testimonials via YouTube, it's time for action...
During a role play we elicit all kinds of opinions from our students about …Translated by
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Evolution of Man: Exhibition
In The World of Kina you see with your own eyes that modern man did not arrive immediately. He is the result of a long evolution, from great ape to Homo sapiens sapiens. We cannot really call the first in line human. They had more features of an …
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Rubbish recycling orchestra
A pep bottle, beer bottle, crown cap, old ladle, plate, glass, PVC tube… We sort the waste and discover how we can reuse waste to craft our own musical instrument. Hammer, nails, drills, screws, etc. are our best friends and we close the …
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Trial mobile
The Test Mobile is a cart full of demo material that we use to drive from class to class. In each class, a stop is made to demonstrate a number of scientific principles using everyday and less everyday objects in such a way that the students' …
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Workshop 3: Justice and the fight against impunity
Massage violence is a complex phenomenon. Which processes can lead to this and which international and national mechanisms exist to combat genocide and mass violence and to bring justice? Testimonials from individuals who have brought to justice …
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