The Kinderuni

Children are curious by nature and ask a thousand questions. The digital Kinderuni is a free online platform of Goethe Institut made available for all children. It is an educational space meant primarily for children in the age group 8 to 12.  The Kinderuni encourages children to look for answers to science related questions on their own and satisfy their thirst for knowledge. Here, learning German is combined with an independent and playful pursuit of science. The structure of the digital Kinderuni is similar to that of a university. Students of Kinderuni (children) get to watch videos from three different fields, namely “Humans”, “Nature” and “Technology”, thereby attending “lectures” at the university. On the completion of each lecture, children are promoted to the next level, for example with titles like Bachelor, Master, Doctor and so on.
 
Kinderuni is offered in two languages.
English: The lectures explain topics from science in English and at the same time teach some German words in a playful way.
German: The lectures are In German and the children learn new and challenging German words.
Subtitles are available in German and English.
 

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• Kinderuni at home

  The online platform Kinderuni is available free of cost to all children and they can engage themselves with it at home.

• Kinderuni in schools

  Teachers can make use of Kinderuni in class or outside of class hours. For this purpose, teaching materials are provided to them.

• MORE ABOUT KINDERUNI

  Find out how your child can enroll in the Digital Kinderuniversity! Questions about the Kinderuni? You may find the right answer HERE.

At home

What is the difference between learning in school and at the university? To what extent can children assimilate knowledge – combined with laughter, enjoyment and experiments- differently? Christoph Biemann is someone with decades of experience in this field, with his programme “Sendung mit der Maus”: Children are curious by nature and have an immense thirst for knowledge. With the right approach, one can enthuse them quickly and for a long time. The Kinderuni is an ideal instrument to do that, because it combines playful, spontaneous learning with the natural curiosity of children. 

Virtual Info-Session for Parents: The Digital Kinderuniversity 

 

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• ONLINE PLATFORM

  The 30 lectures can be accessed here.

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• ACCESS FOR PARENTS

  Parents can create an account and monitor the progress of their children.

In Schools

• Didactic Materials

  The Kinderuni can be used for learning in school in different contexts and areas of application. Individual lectures can be incorporated into classroom instruction based on the theme being taught or outside of the classroom according to students’ interests or in connection with other subjects.

• CLIL

  Content and Language Integrated Learning  is an important approach in learning foreign languages today. The Kinderuni lectures serve as materials for CLIL-instruction.

• Teachers’ login

  Teachers can also create an account and supervise the progress of their students. There are also worksheets and instruction sheets available for download here. Teaching materials are available for teachers for each of the 30 lectures.

Kinderuni Live

• KINDERUNI CURIOSITY CONTEST

  From 15.08.2020 to 13.09.2020 the Kinderuni Curiosity Contest for children aged 8 to 12 years took place. 100 winners from Iran, India, Nepal and Pakistan participated in the live interaction with Joachim Hecker.

• KINDERUNI LIVE ONLINE TASTER SESSION

  Would your students like to try out the Kinderuni? Then book a live online taster session here