michelaleonardi Board game, Outreach

Climate Change activity with schoolchildren at the Zoology Museum

In the next couple of weeks, I will be hosting three sessions about climate change with Year 10 students (14-15 years old), at the Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

I will be giving a short talk explaining the relationship between climate change, evolution and extinction and then we will play the board game that I have created based on my research.

Learning how climate changes impact animal species gives a better understanding of the actual threats linked to the current climate emergency. Understanding such processes through a game makes the students’ experience more engaging and less stressful than it would be when following a lecture or a talk.

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Talk for FermHAmente, the Fermo Science Festival (in Italian)

Yesterday I had the pleasure to take part in FermHAmente, the Fermo Science Festival.

I have been talking about the impact of past and present climate changes on animal species, and about the board game that I have created on the topic.

In the original program two different events were scheduled, but because of tecnical problems they were merged into a single one held on Saturday.

Here is the video of my talk (in Italian).

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Q&A for MeetScience (in Italian)

Yesterday Andrea Idini interviewed me for the first season of MeetScience.

Flyer for the Q&A (in Italian)

We have been talking about many topics that I have been studying, from lactase persistence and the digestion of milk, to horse domestication; from ancient human migrations to migraine; from the genetic history of Lucca to the impact of the Neolithic Revolution on human demography; from climate changes in the past to… board games! Here is the video (in Italian).