In the awareness that bringing science to the attention of Primary school students represents an important and challenging task, Alessandro Stroppa (CNR-SPIN) and collaborators from the Department of Human Science of the University of L'Aquila have recently promoted several didactic projects covering complex topics such as Mathematical Infinity, Geometry and Chemistry, and Symmetry for Primary school children.
The outcomes of these actions, requiring a careful and specific design activity, have been disseminated and exploited in different contexts, like tutorial video for students and teachers, or dedicated Outreach events.
Starting from the experience of a didactic project focalized on the concept of Symmetry, more recently, Alessandro and co-workers published a detailed report "Divertirsi con le simmetrie: un percorso didattico per studenti della scuola primaria” in the on-line CNR journal, Smart E-lab.
Smart-E-Lab provides DOI for each published item, so that the articles can be identified on the web and eventually cited. The purpose of the journal is to share and divulgate outreach actions with the scientific community worldwide, providing also an internal count of visualizations for any item.
For the aforementioned activities, Alessandro Stroppa wishes to thank Karin Giorgini, Francesca Di Lanzo, Giulia Galdi, Angelica Forsinetti, Giulia Dionisi for their efforts for the Primary school projects, Prof. Alice Lemmo, University of L'Aquila and Dr. Guido Righini, CNR-IC, for useful discussions and collaboration; Prof. Luca Lozzi (University of L'Aquila) for providing us the opportunity to contribute every year to Street Science events.
