Unihits für Kids
About the project
Since June 2005, the teaching and research field General Didactics with the focus Technology and Media Education at the RWTH Aachen University, offers the project Unihits für Kids, which has been awarded the PUSH Prize of the Stifterverband für Deutsche Wissenschaft. In this context, school classes or groups of grades six and seven can attend a technically or scientifically oriented university institute of the RWTH for a morning. We organize and supervise the university visit of your group, which offers your students an interdisciplinary combination of theory and practice. The materials used are processed in cooperation with the respective institutes in a technical and didactic way.
Project goal
The aim of the project is to increase the interest of students in STEM subjects as well as in technical and scientific professions. This should be made possible by making their own experiences and experimentation during an institute visit. The experience-oriented and interactive approach to various technical and scientific topics should also reduce reservations about STEM subjects among students.
Registration
If you would like to attend an institute visit with your class or group of students, please fill out our inquiry form with the necessary information. After we have received your request, we will coordinate with the respective institutes and organize the institute visit. As soon as we have received the confirmation of an institute for an appointment, we will inform you and clarify all further questions with you.
Course of the institute visit
As a rule, an institute visit starts at 9 o'clock at a selected institute. The visit takes about 3 to 4 hours, depending on whether a meal in the refectory is desired afterwards. The visit to the institute consists of a theoretical and a practical part, in which the group is always pedagogically accompanied by a staff member of Unihits for Kids.
In the theoretical phase, the students are guided through the institutes and experimental halls. There, teaching content, experiments and machines are shown and explained in an age-appropriate way.
The practical part of the visit is aimed at activating the students. In this section, didactically valuable materials are used, with which the pupils can deal independently and practically implement theoretical contents.
Cooperating institutes
Lehrstuhl für Stahl- und Leichtmetallbau
Schülerlabor „InfoSphere“ Informatik
Institut für Werkstoffanwendungen im Maschinenbau
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