VISIT

(90 minutes)

Students explore the museum with their classmates, guided by an operator who introduces key exhibits and stays available for assistance and further insights. As students choose their own learning paths, they engage with various exhibits to experience firsthand how principles like angular momentum, reflection and refraction, energy conservation, and other physical laws are an integral part of the world around us.

FOCUS ON

(90 minutes)

The Oceans’ Complex System (collaborative workshop)
Goal 14: Life below Water
Temperature, density, water’s thermal capacity, and gas solubility: exploring ocean acidification, thermohaline circulation, and global warming provides an opportunity to deepen understanding of key fluid dynamics principles through basic physics experiments. The observations made in the lab serve as a starting point to interpret current environmental issues and to understand the vital role oceans and seas play in maintaining our planet’s balance. This activity highlights connects different disciplines, such as physics, chemistry, biology, and ecology.

Are we ready for Artificial Intelligence? (discussion game)
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Tests, collaborative challenges, and small tasks help students reflect on the potential and pitfalls of AI. Through a discussion game format, students tackle a highly relevant topic, exploring the various features and uses of artificial intelligence while considering complex ethical dilemmas that often have no simple answers. The goal is to provide a mental workout that strengthens critical thinking, the ability to analyse and assess current situations, identify challenges, propose hypotheses and solutions, and engage in constructive dialogues to form their own interpretations.

Workshop in the Museum (tinkering)
(the museum visit is a prerequisite for this activity)
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Designing and building new versions of our museum exhibits or prototypes of new interactive stations allows students to dive deeper into key physics principles like energy conservation, angular momentum conservation, Bernoulli’s principle, and more. Students experiment with different applications of complex concepts, discovering the close connection between physics and reality. This activity fosters creativity, problem-solving, teamwork, and the ability to gather and apply new knowledge to successfully complete their project.