Lipodrome: a board game as an educational tool to improve understanding of lipids
Description
Lipodrome is a game designed as a mechanism for raising awareness of lipids in health and disease for the general public. It was developed within the activities of Working Group 5 on Communication and Dissemination within the European COST Action EpiLipidNET (CA19105). The Network was already very active in dissemination of experimental findings through publication in scientific journals but we needed interesting material to engage with members of the public in dissemination events such as the European Researchers’ Night and other local and national events. In particular, members of EpiLipidNET were keen to interact with children and it was agreed that games were an entertaining way to educate and inform. Consequently a board game called Lipodrome was designed. Lipodrome is a board game for 2-6 players. It has a continuous track (“a lipodrome”) with a start and finish line, so players can do a single circuit or multiple circuits (to be agreed before the start of the game). Players take turns and if they land on a blue circle, they take a card from the stack and follow the instructions to move forwards, backwards or stay put. The movement relates to whether the card says they have made a beneficial lifestyle or dietary action or choice. There are 52 cards covering a range of topics. The Lipodrome leaflet summarizes some of the key lifestyle and dietary messages. A main point is that no lipid, lifestyle or dietary choice or action is intrinsically bad, but must be set in context of the other activities so that a healthy balance is achieved. For example, an athlete under vigorous training or a person with a very physically active job will need higher dietary intake and different nutrient balance to someone with a desk job and generally sedentary lifestyle. NOTE (as Mendeley Data does not recognize company affiliations): Dr Sara Tortorella currently has a position as chemistry teacher at the Ministero dell'Istruzione e del Merito (https://www.mim.gov.it/web/guest/) but during EpiLipidNET was based at Molecular Horizon srl (https://www.molhorizon.it/) Dr Olga Vvedenskaya is currently based at Lipotype (https://www.lipotype.com/)
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European Cooperation in Science and Technology
COST CA19105