A Summer school for students of all junior classes takes place in the Museum of Ancient Greek Technology, in collaboration with STEM Education.

Four unique workshops introduce to the children: ancient Greek technology, ancient Greek musical instruments, engineering and Robotics.

The workshops were designed in order:

• To offer an original experience of summer vacations, combined with education and entertainment
• To make a creative use of children’s’ leisure time
• To develop their sociability

The workshops are divided in age groups of a’ b ‘c and d ’e’ f first school classes’

Educational activities offered:

THE PLAYWORLD OF ARCHIMEDES: (for students of a’ b’ c’ and d’ e f’ junior class)

Travel through time back to ancient Greece and discover the games of the Ancient Greeks! How did their games look like? What were the rules? How many different combinations can you imagine for an ancient puzzle? Did they have board games in antiquity? Are you ready for some fascinating discoveries?

Children familiarize with the games of the ancient Greeks and discover the meaning of team work by playing ancient Trias, Enneas and the ostomachion of Archimedes.

INTERACTIVE PATHWAYS (FOR STUDENTS OF a’ b’ c’ e’ f’ of junior class)

Children discover the science, the myth and the everyday life of the ancient Greeks, through the two exhibitions of the Museum: “Ancient Greek Technology-the origins of Technology” and the “Ancient Greek Musical Instruments and Toys”.

The kids enjoy an original educational and musical experience full of exchanges and productive stimuli, based on interaction, participation, interpretation and visual approach. From the hydraulic clock of Ktesibios, to the Antikythera mechanism, students realize that many of the achievements of the modern world, like jet propulsion and steam engines, computers and robots, had already been used in the ancient Greek world.

In continuous, the permanent exhibition “The Musical Instruments and Games of the Ancient Greeks” is an impressive panorama of 42 fully functional, reconstructed musical instruments of antiquity. The remarkable hydravlis of Ktesibios and the Homeric phorminx pass on the torch to Hermes’s Lyra and the elikon of Pythagoras, in a musical voyage where children  enjoy a unique experience in the exciting and at the same time unknown world of the ancient Greek Music.

YOUNG ENGINEERS (for students of a’ b’ c’ junior classes)

This workshop enables the students to transform into young scientists. Always aiming to solve a particular problem, they learn to work together and make use of their skills. By constructing simple but also complicated models, small engineers learn experimentally the utility of “Simple Machines” (gears, pulleys, levers, wheels and axles) and are familiar with the operation of mechanisms they encounter in their daily environment.

The constructions are built using LEGO Education materials.

Experiential learning offers, in an entertaining and playful way, knowledge easily perceived and urges children to approach and love sciences and explore their inclinations in them. The purpose of the program is to get acquainted with simple machines and motion and to develop ingenuity skills in problem solving and team spirit by learning the primary applies of the laws of Physics.

INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATIONAL ROBOTICS ( for students of d’ e’ f’ junior class)

The workshop is designed for students in the upper classes of primary school, where through group work around the construction of a robotic model that interacts with the real world in real time, children live an exciting and entertaining experience that they do not want to end!

Each construction has “artificial intelligence” that is the product of students’ algorithmic thinking and is realized through a digital program, which they easily draw themselves on the touch screen of a tablet wirelessly connected to the robotic structure.

The realization of this whole process involves children in practical, active, teamwork exploratory experimentation (early scientists), helps them conquer learning, knowledge and language skills through questioning, search for motives, choosing strategies and formulating conclusions.

Creative time, game and learning!
An ideal combination for your children’s summer!