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Take a closer look at your region: Inspiration booklet
With this inspiration booklet you put yourself in the shoes of a researcher to discover your own region. With various questions, tips and assignments, De Helix invites you to look at the environment with an open and different view.
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EDUbox Energy: Teaching package
The VRT EDUbox is digital and ready-made teaching material around one social theme, tailored to students. It consists of text, video, digital tools, interactive assignments, discussion moments ...
This EDUbox deals with the theme of energy.
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The influence of health behavior on fertility: Teaching package
The influence of health behavior on fertility is part of the new educational goals. On this web page you will find teaching material that has been validated in terms of content by fertility experts.
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Ecological footprint: Teaching idea
Elaborated group work in which students learn more about the ecological footprint of themselves and an ordinary household.
After the introduction and calculating their own footprint, the students work in groups to see how they can reduce their …
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Design a vector drawing with Inkscape
To control digital machines such as a cutting plotter, laser cutter or waterjet, you design a vector drawing. You will learn to draw in a 2D CAD program with vectors and color code. You can transfer these designs to the control programs for …
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Astro Pi: Your code in the Space Station
The European Astro Pi Challenge offers your students the opportunity to conduct scientific research in space by writing computer programs that run on Raspberry Pi computers on board the International Space Station.
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Energy from sunlight
In this resource, your students will learn about two concepts that influence the design of solar panels for space missions:
- inverse square law,
- angle.
Your students investigate these two concepts on the basis of two small studies with a photovoltaic …
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ASGARD: Balloons for science
Every year, students from all countries send their self-conceived and self-made experiment into space with a stratosphere balloon. Participating in ASGARD is very similar to a real science mission in space, conducted by a team during one school …
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CanSat: Your satellite in a can
A CanSat is a model of a real satellite in a metal can. Your students will take on the challenge of fitting all the main subsystems of a satellite into this small volume:
- electrical power supply,
- sensors,
- communication system.
The CanSat is then sent …
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Livestock breeding in evolution: Face to face, lesson 7
The students realize that attention to animal welfare is not only for the farmer, but that consumers and supermarkets also play a role in this. They discover that people with a different profile make different choices when it comes to eating meat …
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This is livestock farming: Face to face, lesson 6
The students watch a video about a poultry farm and build their path from hatching egg to meal for meat and laying hens. They reiterate the five freedoms of animal welfare and recognize that animal welfare is just one of the farmer's many concerns.
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Climate Detectives: Become a climate detective and make a difference
This project was made possible by ESA. It challenges students to make a difference in understanding and protecting the Earth's climate. Students go through three phases.
- In phase 1 they look for a local climate problem. They formulate a research …
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