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Reading and language education: Inspiration day
As part of the Reading Offensive, Flanders Literature and Everyone Reads worked with ninety schools on two effective approaches to promoting reading: interactive reading aloud in nursery and primary education and author residencies in …
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LEGO Education Spike Prime: Course
In this course you will be introduced to the STEAM robot from LEGO Education, the SPIKE Prime robot. We look at what's included in the basic set and experience how the new LEGO Technic elements make building faster and easier. We test out the new …
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Getting started with the micro:bit in your STEM projects: Course
The micro:bit is a mini computer, designed at the initiative of the BBC and intended to teach children the basics of programming. The advantage of the micro:bit is that you can start programming in an accessible way and you immediately see …
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Medieval Writing: Workshop
Would you like to have fun with your students with a quill pen, dip pen and medieval ink? To be able to extensively feel and smell parchment, papyrus, wax seals and rag paper?
Try out different types of writing utensils, feel old papers and make your …
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Solar energy: The power of the sun as a sustainable energy source.
In the solar energy workshop we will work with a celestial sphere to study the apparent movement of the sun. Then we first study a solar cell, small solar panels of 2V and 3V and we also measure how much electricity solar cell roof tiles …
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The little Prince
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is the story of a pilot who meets a special boy, the Little Prince, after an emergency landing in the desert. He tells the pilot about the planet he lives on, other planets he visited and their …
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Spelling in the spotlight: Online inspiration session
We zoom in on the remediation pillar of the integrated approach to reading problems.
The negative PIRLS results made full media coverage. The reading level of our Flemish ten-year-olds reached a dramatic low. Will you help tackle this?
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New series of Book Seeker webinars
During the 2023-2024 school year, Elke Leest, the organization behind Boekenzoeker, is organizing a third series of webinars. They familiarize professionals and parents with the recent range of books for children and young people.
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FAMILY VOICE
Young people who are interested in working with STEM in their spare time will certainly find something to their liking at The IT Garage, in the heart of Brussels.
We organize STEM activities on Wednesday afternoon and Saturday morning.
On Saturday …
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Rocket Fun: Design, Launch and Improve
In this super fun workshop, the participants will look for the properties of an ideal rocket. How many fins are optimal, at what launch angle does the rocket fly the furthest, how sharp should we make the tip, and should it be weighted or not? And …
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Language robot: Working with AI
The workshop exists in a version for third grade primary school, and a version for secondary school.
If you write a text together with a language robot, is that art?
Computer programs that write texts such as ChatGPT, the news is full of them.
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Become a Styrofoam architect
The students get to work like real architects: after a short introduction to force distribution and strength theory, they learn the different techniques to design and construct an apartment building with our super fun Styrofoam cutters. But their …
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