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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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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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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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Workshop: Make a Listening Game
In the Make a Listening Game workshop you will travel through your own story and bring it to life. With your voice, with music, with sounds, with oohs and ahhs and above all, with fun and imagination. We create a scenario, create voices for the …
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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: Rap
During a Rap workshop, every participant finds a positive outlet for their feelings and ideas. Like a true wordsmith, we write a powerful text based on various rhyming exercises.
Then it's time to sharpen our hearing. We listen to the beat, hear the …Translated by
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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...
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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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