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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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Falcon Lake: Tutorial accompanying the movie
In this lesson folder you will find several ideas to get started in the classroom around the Falcon Lake movie.
Thirteen-year-old Bastien falls for sixteen-year-old Chloé while on vacation in Canada. Despite the age difference and …
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Microbial fuel cell: STEM project
In this STEM project your students are confronted with the current energy crisis. With this problem in mind, they will go through several phases to ultimately build a microbial fuel cell (MFC). This voltacell will generate electricity from mud.
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Sea ice from space
In this resource, students explore the polar ice. In a hands-on activity, they explore what happens when the ocean freezes. They will then use satellite images to analyze the concentration and extent of sea ice and see how these parameters have …
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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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