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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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Sea in sight: Exhibition
Ready to discover what lives in the sea? Animals with very strange shapes or spines… Animals that look like plants… And where do all those beautiful shells come from?
If you want to find out who they are and how they live, visit the new …
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Spring walk in The world of Kina: The Garden
Flowers raise their heads, birds come back and make a nest. Together with the guide we go for a walk in the museum garden. Do you see what changes in spring? The guide tells about flowers, bees, pollination, trees, kitchen herbs and medicinal herbs.
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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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Buzzing with Annebieke: On a journey to the bee world
In the Helix Garden, the bee doll Annebieke takes the children on a journey to the bee world. Using a story, assignments and games, they discover the world of the honey bee, the wild bee, the wasp, the bumblebees and many other small winged …
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Theater performance: Mrs. Drupjes
Sparkling educational children's theater about water. Ms Drupjes, always in her cups, takes them all - by the water of the sea. Ms Drupjes was commissioned by the Water Intercommunal IGEMO by Tine Hofman. There is a performance for …
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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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