Magnet
From: 10 August 2008
To: 14 August 2008
Age Group:
6
-9
years
When you use a computer, you're using magnets! A hard drive relies on magnets to store data, and some monitors use magnets to create images. If your home has a doorbell, it probably uses an electromagnet to drive a noisemaker. Magnets are vital for many devices we use on daily basis.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Language: Arabic
Colors
From: 10 August 2008
To: 11 August 2008
Age Group:
9
-12
years
Without light, colors do not exist. But how can light enable us to see them? How is it that two colors mixed together make a third? Why do crystal drops cast rainbows when they catch the light? Why isn’t the sky always the same color?
Duration: 90 Minutes
Language: Arabic
Mechanics
From: 05 August 2008
To: 21 August 2008
Age Group:
12
-16
years
Simple machines are the foundation of all mechanical devices. Learn about these simple, yet fundamental machines, such as pulleys, gears, levers and inclined plane.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Language: Arabic
Light Painting
From: 03 August 2008
To: 07 August 2008
Age Group:
12
-19
years
Painting with light is a fun technique that gives great results. It is called painting with light because this is what you are actually doing while taking the shot—painting with light.
All you need is a camera capable of long exposures, a flash , and a dark location.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Language: Arabic
Air
From: 03 August 2008
To: 07 August 2008
Age Group:
6
-12
years
Air is all around us, but it can be hard to see. Performing interactive experiments, find out why hot air rises, how temperature changes air pressure, and much more.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Language: Arabic
Light
From: 27 July 2008
To: 31 July 2008
Age Group:
6
-12
years
What is light and what are its properties? What are light applications in our daily life? What are the different types of images, rays and shadows? What is reflection and what is refraction? And what is the day and night phenomenon?
Students participating in this workshop get to learn the answers to all these questions.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Language: Arabic
Magnet
From: 27 July 2008
To: 31 July 2008
Age Group:
9
-16
years
When you use a computer, you're using magnets! A hard drive relies on magnets to store data, and some monitors use magnets to create images. If your home has a doorbell, it probably uses an electromagnet to drive a noisemaker. Magnets are vital for many devices we use on daily basis.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Language: Arabic
Dinosaurs
From: 20 July 2008
To: 04 August 2008
Age Group:
6
-12
years
Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth. It boosts ecosystem productivity where each species, no matter how small, has an important role to play and that it is this combination that enables the ecosystem to possess the ability to prevent and recover from a variety of disasters.
In this workshop students will understand that all animals are important, even extinct animals, such as dinosaurs. They will study dinosaur characteristics and skeletons, see the environment where they lived, what they had for nutrition; they will also discover why they perished.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Language: Arabic
Gravity
From: 13 July 2008
To: 17 July 2008
Age Group:
6
-12
years
Gravity is the pull that objects have on other objects around them. All objects have gravity, which means that they are always trying to pull other objects toward them. The larger an object, the stronger its pull. Because Earth itself is the largest object in our world, the pull of its gravity is the strongest we can feel.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Language: Arabic
First Aid
From: 13 July 2008
To: 17 July 2008
Age Group:
9
-16
years
The objective of the workshop is to give children the ability to face risks and accidents that might happen to them or to their friends, to show them the simple tools they may use, and the necessary equipment in the first aid kit.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Language: Arabic