Young and old
Age and prior knowledge
- The didactic narrative can be dynamically driven by the target audience or agreed upon in advance. We can take a broad, generic approach or we can go for an in-depth story.
- What works well in practice: the audience is given a few minutes to look at the didactic material on the tables and chooses the themes on the spot. Based on the interaction with the audience, a generic or detailed explanation can be given.
Interdisciplinary
- The interdisciplinary approach merges history, mechanics, Latin, Greek, mathematics, chemistry, computer science, geography, physics, ... In antiquity, the strict division between many fields of study did not exist.
Schools
- A fun and atypical teaching story that adapts to the learning objectives of the 1st to 6th year of secondary education.
- Components of this teaching project offer opportunities to integrate into iSTEM projects.
- Prospective students and interested parents can be spoken to during a school open day.
Children
The themes which work well with a young audience are:
- The materials: hearing (interactive explanation), seeing (the objects are shown), and feeling (they may hold the objects and pass them around).
- The explanation about the minerals: the Platonic models are linked to the crystals; they may hold the minerals and crystals (approximately 200 minerals and crystals can be available).
- Killing at a distance: the arrowheads, slings and chemical warfare.
Adults
Popular storylines for adults or higher grades are:
- The Antikythera mechanism (programming with gears).
- The dodecahedron.
- The torsion catapult.
Mass events
- At mass events such as Nerdland Festival, I try to dive into the frame of reference of the audience. Based in the interaction, I dynamically develop the didactic narrative.
- The most challenging are the mass events abroad, such as the Roman mass festival in Augusta Raurica (Switzerland). There I present all the themes to a diverse audience and express myself in Dutch, English, French, and German.