Abstract:

The experience gained during the pandemic has, on the one hand, strengthened initiatives that previously had only a collateral and supporting role to the INFN (National Institute of Nuclear Physics) in-presence communication programmes, and on the other hand has confronted us with the need to involve an ever wider and more varied audience and in particular schools. The immediate need for online initiatives by schools allowed us to experiment and consolidate targeted activities that, in addition to the involvement of researchers and interaction with students, included video stories suitably modulated according to the different age groups. Thus, the INFN has developed a new proposal of online resources for schools (articles, videos, podcasts) that can be used to explore school topics in depth, and a series of online events with researchers aimed at telling the INFN research, physics and history. These online events have a structure consisting of video narratives by researchers and communicators accompanied by images and strip using the chroma-key technique and Q&A sessions wherein students can ask questions to the researchers who answer them live. The schools' response was well above our expectations, demonstrating the need for quality science contents that pervades schools, especially at the lower levels. An overview of INFN's activities for schools (primary to secondary level) will be discussed, along with the results of the end-of-activity questionnaires.

Keywords:

Technology, online initiatives, education, physics.