For the science festival Schlauraum in Muenster in 2022, I created a digital interactive discovery tour in which children playfully learn the physical processes involved in changing states of matter.
The research on this project was a lot of fun since I was carried back to my school time. Hating physics back then, I now found my interest in this mysterious subject. It is incredible what our world has to offer and understanding why our world works the way it does is mindblowing. I wanted children to experience exactly that feeling of awe that physics can create, hoping to do a better job than my physics teachers in school.
The Schlauraum in Muenster in 2022 dealt with water in a wide sense. A lot of fascinating projects have been displayed and I was happy to be part of this. My project fitted into this science festival really well, since a lot of children were visitors. Learning playfully is a great method to get children interested into almost anything. Being curious and wanting to find out more is a great gift each child posses.
On a laptop or computer this digital interactive discovery journey works best. Children can move the cursor over the screen making little snowflakes appear. By clicking on those the story continues, a new text box occurs providing deeper information about the states of matter. Having found every snowflake on one illustration, footprints on the right take you to another chapter. You can always go backwards with the footprints on the left, letting you experience the previous chapter again. To make this discovery journey accessible for a broader group of children the text can be read aloud by clicking the audio button underneath each text box.
… some more impressions
