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The Strange Past. How do you teach your students to contextualize?: Course
Contextualization is a difficult skill for many students, because they often look at the world from their own values, norms and knowledge. However, to successfully explain historical and current events, it is necessary that students learn …
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At the table! Eating with Muslims, Jews and Christians: Expo
For many people, religion largely determines what you can or cannot eat and how something should be prepared. But food or its abstinence also plays an important role in celebrations, traditions and rites of passage. In this exhibition, PARCUM …
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Roman soldier in the classroom
For more than twenty years, Quintus, the Roman legionnaire, has been besieging various schools in Flanders and the Netherlands.
His explanation concerns a complete scientifically sound reconstruction of a legionary from the middle of the first …
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Visionary future walk
Together we dive into the sustainable future dreams of your students. And you can take that literally: the young people guide each other. So it is entirely up to them.
Maybe they dream of a school on a street park without cars and traffic lights? Or a …
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PlayZone Europe: Temporary exhibition
Belgium will become President of the Council of the European Union in the spring of 2024. Mechelen is organizing a major cultural and social festival Construct Europe to put this presidency in the spotlight.
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Drones and Tree Management: STEM Experience
Next school year we will organize a number of STEM experience sessions on drones and tree management. During this STEM session you will discover how drone technology is applied in tree management and forests. You will also learn more about tree …
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Media Scanners: Workshop
Information bubbles, propaganda, censorship... These are phenomena that are as old as our (visual) language. But how do you recognize them? How do we avoid polarization? The Media Scanners workshop introduces students to sources from the Second …
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Digi-Sandbox
A new winner in our range. Our DIGI sandbox can be used as an educational tool (e.g. in geography lessons, lesson folder on request), but it also contains a super fun ball game, a fantasy world full of animals and plants and a real archeology …
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Long live bamboo sticks
Bamboo is a technique developed by artist Antoon Versteegde. Bamboo sticks are connected with elastic bands to create large works of art. We look at some of his works, and also examine bamboo sticks ourselves to discover what makes them so strong. …
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Something new under the sun? Man and climate throughout history: Course
The climate crisis is increasingly dominating our lives. The summer of 2022 brought unprecedented monsoons in Pakistan and dry rivers in large parts of Europe. A year earlier, the Meuse Valley was flooded and climate deaths also occurred in the …
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Philosophy of Life and Violence: Workshop
How do you make a theme such as philosophy of life and violence a subject for discussion? Axcent developed a workshop on philosophy of life, dialogue and violence. Pupils learn in an interactive way that philosophy of life is often automatically …
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Abraham or Ibrahim?: Escape game
On the basis of assignments, the students try to escape the classroom as quickly as possible. Throughout the game they get to know different philosophies of life that may have more in common than meets the eye...
Throughout the escape game, the …
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