KiTec – Kinder entdecken Technik (KiTec - Children Discover Technology)
Why won’t the Eiffel tower fall over even in a storm? What makes a bridge so strong that even heavy trucks can drive across? How does the steering in a car work? ”KiTec – Kinder entdecken Technik” (KiTec - Children Discover Technology) wants to encourage children’s inquisitiveness and scientific curiosity. For that purpose, KiTec boxes for the classroom were developed by the Ulm Transfer Center for Neuroscience and Learning (Transferzentrum für Neurowissenschaften und Lernen - ZNL) in collaboration with a chair for technology and didactics. KiTec contains three comprehensive sets of tools and materials. With these sets, elementary school children get to work in teams on a number of different civil, automotive and electrical engineering tasks. Before starting on their projects, the children get to familiarize themselves with the contents of the boxes and obtain their ”tools license“.
For more information please go to the German website
Project initiator knowledge factory
The knowledge factory is a network of more than 60 companies from all over Germany designed to develop a zest for the future. With its more than 1,000 education partnerships, the knowledge factory is dedicated to the communication of natural sciences, technology, language and economics. One of its main focuses is early childhood education e.g. the cooperation with preschools, kindergartens and elementary schools. Federal President Horst Köhler is the patron of the knowledge factory. To find out more please go to
www.wissensfabrik-deutschland.de
