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Chinese Language and Culture
Kindergarten education
With photos and videos we look through the eyes of a toddler together: what do the children do in a Chinese kindergarten, or how do Chinese children celebrate New Year, or what does a Chinese house look like?
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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.
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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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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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Eyewitness: Lecture
An eyewitness can irreplaceably evoke an image of the past. In the person of an eyewitness, the memory of the war becomes real. In this way, past and present are connected. Huis Over Grenzen can provide an eyewitness on both a historical and …
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Workshop 4: 3,2,1, … Action! How to inspire each other to bring about change as ordinary heroes
A witness tells on video how he saved several lives during the genocide on the Rwandan Tutsi. In what way did other well-known and lesser-known heroes resist in history? And what were the consequences? These stories can inspire us to take an …
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Faces of human rights: Workshop
What do a World War II German soldier, a Syrian refugee, a Holocaust survivor and an African child soldier have in common? At first glance nothing. Or is it? During this interactive workshop, students look for common ground as well as differences …
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JUST-skilled: Getting acquainted with justice
The students get to know justice from the inside: in the morning they attend a court case at the criminal court. In the afternoon, they take on the role of the accused, the victim, the prosecutor, the judge or the lawyer during a role play. Then …
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KANT AND CLARA: Empathy game
The KANT AND CLARA school program is an experience package from the Maagdenhuis that allows you and your class to follow in the footsteps of the orphans.
What does it mean to grow up as an orphan, then and now? Even today - unfortunately - there are …
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Better understanding the (Post)colonial period in Congo: Gastles
As a journalist I wrote the book The Children of Eastern Congo . A personal look back on 25 years of reporting in the region, but especially the story of child soldier Isaac and human rights activist Rebecca. Recently I started making reports …
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Heldenflix: Workshop
Why are Netflix series so addictive? The answer lies in the earliest adventure novels and how well they have been preserved or not. In an interactive workshop we teach young people from the fourth to sixth year of secondary education to make …
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