"A prova di terremoto": a teachers' guide

An educational guide for teachers, based on a collection of didactic units proposed by other teachers who had participated in previous Edurisk activities.

 

 

 

"Noi e i vulcani"

 (8-10 years old) An educational tool for primary schools, written and illustrated by Roberto Luciani. This volume is the result of a multi-layered process of planning, elaborating and revising scientific information which involved researchers from Napoli, Roma and Bologna. The resulting product is brilliant indeed, as witnessed by praises on it by the Ercolano, Lipari and Catania schools who first used it within the EDURISK experience.

Available in: Italian, English, Spanish (French, German: in preparation).

"Il clima che cambia. Cosa possiamo fare noi"

 Cartoons and text of this booklet are a good mix of fun and science on the global climate changes. The history of the climate changes, the recent increasing of the atmospheric temperature, the Kyoto protocol, and a number of suggestions to reduce CO2 emissions are presented, making this "hot" topic interesting for the widest public. The booklet is completed by a number of experiments that kids can make at home, and intriguing quizzes.

Available in Italian only.

Earthquakes and ghost town in Sicily

(from 16-years old) A multimedia product addressed not only to schools but also to the general public, it leads the viewer in a journey through the remnants of 17 Sicilian ghost towns, abandoned by their inhabitants in the aftermath of some of the most destructive earthquakes of the last millennium. A variety of materials (testimonials, historical reports and maps, images, photos and videos) allows us to see the deserted sites as they appeared in the past, to reconstruct their historical features, to become acquainted with the effects of the destruction caused by the earthquakes and to analyses in depth the events that led the site to being abandoned. The available information is arranged according to three thematic paths:

Time, memory retrieved thanks to historical documents and testimonials; Space, the land seen through pictures; Seismicity, natural causes and their features.

An interactive navigation through the ruins of each ghost town is also possible. For each site, an interactive exploration has been created using the QuickTime™ Virtual Reality software to navigate inside 360-degrees pictures.

Available in Italian and English.