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How many stories can we find in the enlarged and projected image of nature?

The projection of enlarged nature becomes the backdrop for games and the invention of fantastic stories…..After collecting natural materials in their surroundings and collecting them in a box, that will be the transitional object that will enable children to continue experimentations started at school to be continued at home and vice versa, children will discover new properties of these materials through their observation with a digital microscope. Attaching the microscope to the projector, the enlargements give rise to imaginative and evocative environments, with which the children can play, interact and develop a character that will be brought home for the development of a common chain story.

An idea from

Sara Battistel – Cristina Zecchin, ECEC educators at the Kindergarten “Scuola dell’Infanzia Tre Piere”, Oderzo – Italy.

In co-design with Zaffiria.

Time

6 activities (30-45 min each)

Age

4-5 years

Objective

Experimentation of different tools and materials.
Peer collaboration.
development of language and narrative skills.

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How are shadows generated and what lays behind (or in front of) them?

Children discover the nature of shadows and the properties of projection through a series of experimentation activities with different light sources and materials. At school, in a dark room, they will first experiment what happens when the light from the projector passes through natural materials (leaves, flowers, branches, stones), through coloured transparent materials, to afterwards discover what the materials look like if they give a “closer look”, through the lenses of a digital microscope. At home, children and parents will go for a “shadow hunt” and experiment with different light sources and materials, also thanks to a “transition” box, which the children take home from school and vice versa.