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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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Getting started with Whizzkids, ICT integration in the classroom: Training
What about all those computers in the classroom? How can you use them efficiently in the classroom?
To reduce the digital divide, Whizzkids organizes free ICT competitions integrated within the final objectives. The pedagogical and didactic use of ICT …
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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.
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Discoverit: Dino workshop
This learning resource introduces your class to fascinating fossils of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals in a tangible way.
Objectives of this workshop are:
- observing and identifying fossils;
- work with digital microscopes and digital …
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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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Climate change: Scientific workshop
Every day we hear news about record temperatures, melting ice caps, or floods like last summer. Through this workshop, students discover the causes and consequences of climate change.
In this workshop, students are prepared to become real …
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Movement and science: Activity boxes
We come to you with about fifteen activity boxes. These are quickly spread out into as many interactive corners where students can explore the world of music, movement and science in general. The classroom is transformed into one large laboratory.
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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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