The collections of the Italian University Museums. Network for an education to scientific method through the use of new technologies

The museums of 10 Universities of the Italian University Museums Network (Bari, Chieti-Pescara, Florence, Ferrara, Modena-Reggio Emilia, Pavia, Perugia, Rome La Sapienza, Siena, Tuscia), with the addition of two important museums (the Civic Museums of Reggio Emilia and the Regional Museums of Natural Sciences of Torino), coordinated by the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, realized several educational paths for the guidance to scientific method and culture. These paths, aimed to create contexts for non-formal and informal learning, can integrate and innovate the standard techniques of formal education. With this purpose, three main themes have been chosen and then conjugated in different specific sub-themes: Biodiversity and Agro-biodiversity, Color (in Nature, in Art, in Physics), Time (Geology and fossils, Human evolution, Time measure, Time in Physics, Evolution of the Antarctic).