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Related areas:
Arts
Engineering
Mathematics
Science
Technology
Target groups:
Primary school students
Diversities:
None
Description:

One of the activities that best reconciles the scientific aspects with the artistic and creative ones is tinkering. Literally tinkering means "tinkering", but in a broader sense it means disassembling and assembling, unscrewing, attaching, cutting out. In short, everything that has to do with understanding how something works. The purpose of tinkering is to make objects of various kinds from recycled materials, small mechanical and electronic parts, simple materials such as paper, cardboard or wood.

Countries where it operates:
Italy.
Funding institutions:

Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnica di Milano.

Keywords:
steam, tinkering.