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Teaching activity planned by Emanuele Dondoglio during the PhD course “Designing innovative public engagement activities”, held in 2022 at the University of Padua. Materials 2 m long sponge tubes, cut in half, for insulation (3 for each group) scissors (1 for each group) black tape (1 for each group) marbles (4 for each group) container (1 for each group) wall (to attach the track to) Description of the activity In this activity, you will have to challenge children to build a roller coaster for marbles, by rolling them on tubes,LEGGI TUTTO

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Short description of the Activity Source of marvel for everyone, the Moon never stops bewitching and being the protagonist of incredible stories. But why does a crescent Moon sometimes appear to us, and sometimes a full Moon, and every now and then you cannot even see it? Thanks to the Moon Box you will discover why the Moon appears always different. You will find out the secrets of its appearing and disappearing, and keeps surprising with its cyclical change. Materials for the activity For the construction of the Moon BoxLEGGI TUTTO

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Teaching activity planned by Edoardo Ceccarelli, Giulia Campitiello and Stefano Sotira during the PhD course “ Designing innovative public engagement activities” at the University of Bologna in 2023. Short description of the activity: The Universe is mainly composed of a series of structures which are called galaxies, of various shape and kind. The galaxy in which we live, or hosts our Solar System, is called Milky Way and is one of the many spiral galaxies. The name of this category of objects derives from the particular distribution of gas inside,LEGGI TUTTO

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Teaching Activity planned by Ilaria Viale and Marco Dall’Amico during the PhD course “Designing innovative public engagement activities”, held at the University of Padova in 2022. Astrophysical Box: The goal of this laboratory is to show children how astronomers observe black holes. In this activity we will show the effect of gravity exerted by different bodies in a small region of spacetime, reproduced by a black sheet held taut on a hula hop. We will simulate the deformation of spacetime through the deformation of the sheet, due to the differentLEGGI TUTTO

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From an idea of ​​ Teresa Lanzano (IC12 Bologna kindergarten teacher) In planning together didactic activities at the IC12 in Bologna, a  school from kindergarten to secondary school 3-13 years old students, we organized a collegial meeting with all the teachers of the kindergarten in order to discuss how to bring the activities on the Moon with the homogeneous sections of 4 and 5 year-old pupils. I described the lunatario, which was then tested by the teachers. Teresa Lanzano, a teacher of the 5 year-old section, proposed a very interestingLEGGI TUTTO

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Published at the end of the project, this small volume on the one hand traces how cinema from its origins has been fascinated by the Moon, on the other it presents the activities carried out during the year, enriched by bibliographies and filmographies.     The booklet can be purchased in Bologna at Bologna Welcome in Piazza Maggiore or can be consulted online directly on the dedicated page.LEGGI TUTTO

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Pupils bring home their Moon books, so that they can keep track of the Moon over four weeks. The task of keeping a daily track of one’s own observation of the Moon helps pupils notice and get curious about what is happening in the sky. Before pictures, illustrations : Maria Clara Eimmart draws the Moon (1697). Some of her works, shown below, can be seen at the “Museo della Specola” (Observatory Museum) in Bologna. In their Moon exercise books, pupils wrote down time and date of each observation, drew theLEGGI TUTTO