Whose Leaf is This?

Making an ID card for a tree, in 3 dimensions.

Objectives:

• Discovering the different tree varieties.

• Experimenting with an impression technique.

Skills developed:

• Being introduced to specialised terminology.
• Using a simple identification key.
• Developing your observation capabilities.
• Identifying the most common trees by their leaves and fruit.
• Using plants as media in artistic expression.

Length: 1.5 h

Price:  3 euros per child

The Geographers of Imaginary Worlds

Designing and making world maps and other maps.

Objectives:

• Building the concept of space.
• Finding your way around in space.

Skills developed:

• Using terminology to describe space.
• Knowing how to identify map codes.
• Getting a basic understanding of the notion of scale.

Length: 2 h
Price: 3 euros per child

Ink in Every Colour

Making plant-based inks

Objectives:

• Using empirical processes to reveal colours.
• Making observations about dye plants.
• Experimenting with the colouring possibilities of inks.

Skills developed:

• Experimenting with the dyeing power of plants.
• Using chemical compounds to reveal colours.
• Preserving a trace of the experiments conducted.

Length: 2 h
Price: 3 euros per child

Kalei, Thauma, Zoe and Trope

Making a kaleidoscope

Objectives:

• Introduction to the study of optical phenomena
• Developing an approach to technology as an application of science.

Skills developed:

• Understanding how motion gives life to images.
• Experimenting with and handling unusual instruments.

Length: 2 h
Price: 4 euros per child

It’s All Fun and Games

Fun activity

Objectives:

• “Playing to learn or learning to play”
• Discovering popular games of the 18th century.
• Playing with team spirit.

Skills developed:

• Setting up strategies.
• Developing physical and intellectual skills: agility, stamina and concentration
• Acting with a civic-minded attitude

Length: 2 h
Price:  3.50 euros per child

A World of Bugs

Designing and making little insect hotels.

Objectives:

• Developing a playful approach to entomology.
• Making children aware of environmental citizenship.

Skills developed:

• Using specific terminology to describe and compare different classes of insects.
• Formulating hypotheses based on the observation of live insects.
• Designing and building a specific shelter.
• Making identity factsheets for the insects observed.

Length: 2 h
Price: 4 euros per child

A Pocket Garden

Making little aromatic plant gardens.

Objective:

Discovering the signs of life in the plant world.

Skills developed:

• Observing and identifying the characteristics of the plant kingdom.
• Making interpretations.
• Using classification criteria.

At the Museum:Expressing what students know about plants and experimenting with what they think they know.

At School:Observing the growth of plants and proposing new experiments to formulate hypotheses.

Length:2 h
Price: 3 euros per child

Doodles

Making and using black ink and writing instruments.

Objectives:

• Developing a technical and aesthetic approach to writing.
• Fostering imagination and creativity.

Skills developed:

• Introduction to the history of writing.
• Using chemical compounds to make ink.
• Identifying and using writing models.
• Using unusual instruments: reed pens, goose and other quills, ink brushes, glass pens, and more.

Length: 2 h
Price:  3.50 euros per child

Abracadabra!

 Making magic tools and accessories.

Objectives:

• Discovering the world of illusion.
• Developing a scientific approach to magic.
• Fostering critical thinking.

Skills developed:

• Experimentation and hands-on practice, to develop fine motor skills and dexterity.
• Formulating hypotheses to implement a scientific approach.

Length: 2 h
Price:  4 euros per child

Building Houses

Making models of the Vosges houses in the village of Waldersbach.

Objective:

• Finding your way around in space.
• Progressing from a drawing to a scale model.

Skills developed:

• Using a drawing of a geometric shape.
• Verifying axes of symmetry.
• Estimating measurements.
• Getting a basic understanding of the notion of scale.
• Describing geometric shapes and identifying them.
• Introduction to architecture and its specific terminology.

Length: 2.5 h – 2 h in the classroom and 30 minutes in the village to find the various houses corresponding to the models built.
Price: 3 euros per child