April 2020

At home with the Digital Kinderuniversity

Dear students and friends of the Digital Kinderuniversity,

In times of the coronavirus we try to spend most of our time at home. Why not use this time for something exciting – learn and practice German! In this special newsletter issue we collected the latest Kinderuni news for you.

We are very pleased to inform that this fall a variety of new lectures will be available on the learning platform in the faculties of Humankind, Nature and Technology. Additionally, we are working on optimizing the platform so that you can also do your Kinderuni studies on a tablet and/or smartphone.

Together with you, there are already over 45,000 young Kinderuni students worldwide. We are currently preparing the opening of the Kinderuni to Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese and French speaking countries as well as to India and Indonesia.

If you have already completed all lectures, we invite you to join us in the most extraordinary lecture hall in the galaxy – the JuniorUni space station! Here you will find answers to fascinating questions in the faculties of Robotics, Air and Space, Technologies, Natural Sciences as well as Energy and Sustainability.

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For self-learning

Kinderuni Quiz

Test your knowledge in our Kinderuni quiz! If you can't answer some of the questions, now is the perfect opportunity to watch the lectures on these topics, complete the tasks and gather more badges! Please note the quiz is only available in German.

Take a quiz

User guide

How can you monitor your students’ learning progress when they work from home? Check out our detailed instructions for working with the Kinderuni learning platform.

Study manual

Student identification card

Print out the student ID card template and track your child's academic success in the Kinderuni!

Download template

For online lessons

Lectures on teaching topics

What topic are you talking about in German right now? We have prepared a list of recommendations on which Kinderuni lectures are suitable for specific topics from German textbooks and can be used as additional material.

Download list

Online lesson with Digital Kinderuniversity

With the Kinderuniversity you can play, tinker, watch the videos and learn German together while being far apart. For teachers who are interested in online lessons, we offer learning scenario on the topic “Heart symbol” in the form of an online conference.

For school lessons

For your german lessons

For German teachers we offer didactic materials for each of the 30 video lectures, allowing you to integrate the Kinderuni into the classroom. You can access these materials in your Kinderuni teacher account by clicking on “Learning Scenarios” in the left menu of each lecture. The materials can also be downloaded under the link below.

Activities for german beginners

Are your students just starting to learn German? We have prepared a set of 60 min sessions for ten select Kinderuni lectures suitable for children with no prior knowledge of German. You can download these materials under the link below by clicking on More Information about 'Learn German Through Stem'.

Bonus

Experiments related to the Kinderuni

We have compiled a list of experiments related to discoveries and inventions of prominent German scientists. Using the study book and methodical guide, parents can carry out some of the experiments with their children at home, for example the one about the structure of the eye, creating play dough from starch or an experiment about reactive driving force. Please note that these experiments are currently only available in German.

Also in English

Since 2019, you can watch the lectures of the Digital Kinderuni not only in German but also in English. You can also turn on German or English subtitles for each lecture! This was made possible with our colleagues in the USA developing an English version of the Kinderuni platform.

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Further offers

Digitale JuniorUni

The German Digital JuniorUni is a free educational project by the Goethe-Institut for teenagers. There you will find answers to exciting questions such as: “How do you prepare for a flight into space?”, “How do soap bubbles behave in zero gravity?” or “How can robots recognize human feelings?”.

#Ersatzprogramm

Further free online offers by the Goethe-Institut for children and young people (not only for language learning) are summarized on this special page. Tell your children or students about it and let them play, listen, read and test their knowledge!

Newsletter “Teaching German”

With this monthly newsletter we inform about the language work of the Goethe-Instituts in Russia: current further education for German teachers, competitions and educational programs for pupils and students as well as about materials and interactive offers for German lessons.

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Why does wood crackle when it burns? How does the display board determine when the tram arrives? How are gummy bears made? In the Digital Kinderuniversity you will find answers to these and many other questions and learn wonderful German words!

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