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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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The human body: Exhibition
In The world of Kina: the House, the nature museum for children and young people, you will find two museum rooms about the human body.
You can visit the halls with a guide, or accompany your class group independently.
Preschoolers and students in the …
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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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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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Guest lessons GAIA vzw
Content and approach: Our guest lessons last 2x50 minutes.
In a language tailored to children and young people, our educators let students think about human-animal relationships in an interactive, fascinating and pedagogically responsible …
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Free workshop on climate change
In this participatory and interactive session on climate, young people from the first stage of secondary education themselves look for more knowledge about climate and they themselves develop an action for the school.
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Primitive dance
During this workshop, the children explore what their body can do, as it were, and learn to move purely by feeling. Sometimes slow, then exciting again, the music takes the children on a journey through all kinds of rhythms and sounds.
There are …
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Movement expression
A workshop that is also suitable for teachers during team building or further training.
In this workshop we will work with all the big (and small) emotions. We investigate how we can use our entire body and voice to express those emotions. We try out …Translated by
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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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