We marked World Time Travel Day on November 23rd through various creative and research workshops for students. By participating in the workshops, the students expanded their knowledge from regular classes with a special emphasis on subjects from the STEM field through an interdisciplinary approach to learning, critical and logical thinking, connecting and combining concepts, solving problems, technology usage, cooperation, teamwork and the Do-it-yourself principle.
At the Reception with the King, the students traveled to the Middle Ages. They learned about the symbolism of signs and colors on medieval coats of arms and then everyone made their own coat of arms, incorporating hidden symbolism from the Middle Ages into it. Dancing through time in various styles that marked a certain time, the students learned that dance, as an innate human need for movement, developed as part of human culture in the form of ceremonies, rituals, celebrations, entertainment, but also communication, because through dance we can evoke various feelings and tell stories. The trip ended with dance moves to the rhythm of drums.
The students of the special department at the Modern Fossils workshop got to know the concept, types and different sites of fossils. They made fossils using modern materials: plasticine, cardboard, aluminum foil, clay and a 3D pencil. They made prints of dinosaurs, shells, leaves, twigs and made 3D dinosaurs out of cardboard.
The little researchers in the secret activity found out that there are different ways of encrypting messages. They concluded in which events it is necessary to write in a secret letter. They tried their hand at encrypting and decrypting messages from different historical periods, from the Caesar cipher, the Rot13 cipher (using tablets), to writing with invisible ink. Superheroes and superheroines of code drew their own time machine at the Time Machine activity. They wrote the place and time where they would travel with him, as well as the reasons why they chose it. They put together dinosaur puzzles and dinosaurs from tangram pieces on the tablets. Using VR glasses, they entered the ancient past and visited the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.
At the Historical Discoveries of Chemical Elements workshop, students had the opportunity to learn about the time of discovery of different chemical elements and their properties and applications. After the introductory presentation, they followed the creation of several experiments based on which they were supposed to recognize the type of elemental substances. On the worksheets they wrote: names of chemical elements, symbols, years of discovery, position in the periodic table, old Dalton symbols, properties, locations and their application in everyday life. They were helped in this by the offered materials that they had to look for in the classroom. At the end of the workshop, they had the opportunity to play the game "sinking the ships" in such a way that one student in a pair pulls out several symbols of chemical elements from the bag and writes them in the appropriate place in the PSE, while the other student must according to the number of periods and groups determine their positions.
At the To the Moon and Back workshop, the students survived "7 minutes of terror", then with the help of a presentation they jumped to the Moon and learned more about the Earth's only natural satellite, the Apollo 11 mission and the first men on the Moon. In the practical part of the workshop, they were supposed to design and test a spacecraft to help stray aliens land safely on Earth. The students thus became familiar with the concepts of gravity, force of gravity and "soft landing". We are glad that almost all aliens survived the landing :).
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