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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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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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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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Mushrooms: Exhibition
In The world of Kina: de Tuin, the Ghent nature museum for children and young people, you will find a museum room about mushrooms. You will discover the answer to questions such as:
- What are fungi?
- Where does the name mushroom come from? …
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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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Matisse becomes a police officer: Theater about road safety
Matisse's big dream is to become a police officer. He thinks this is very easy. Driving a police car, catching thieves, walking in uniform, etc. He visits a real police officer and it turns out that becoming a cop is not that easy. He must, among …
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Sea in sight: Exhibition
Ready to discover what lives in the sea? Animals with very strange shapes or spines… Animals that look like plants… And where do all those beautiful shells come from?
If you want to find out who they are and how they live, visit the new …
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