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Articles | Volume 3, issue 2
Articles | Volume 3, issue 2
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30 Jul 2020
Research article |  | 30 Jul 2020

Fun educational and artistic teaching tools for science outreach

Marina Locritani, Silvia Merlino, Sara Garvani, and Francesca Di Laura

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This paper focuses on the use of games and illustrations in scientific outreach. This approach tries to make scientific concepts attractive to the general public by trying to reach people of all ages and social backgrounds. In this work, we would like to give a brief overview of some didactic tools, retracing the choices made while ideating them, thanks mainly to close collaboration with artists and illustrators.
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