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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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Children's rights walk in Ghent
This guided walk takes you past well-known and surprising places in Ghent and makes children's rights concrete and open to discussion for the children and young people in your class.
Using stimulating questions and activating assignments, …
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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.
Why is he buzzing anyway? And …
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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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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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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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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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