In 2010, the "Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer des OFFIS e.V." approved the sub-project "Inspiring enthusiasm for Computing Science" for a period of 2 years.

In this project, games were developed for primary school pupils and regularly carried out on request at primary schools. The aim was to give children a holistic approach to topics such as messaging and data transmission with and without the Internet.

The game "Der Weg der Daten durch das Internet" (now better known as "Die Internetversteher") was developed in co-operation with the Nadorst primary school in Oldenburg. This simulation game was played in a number of primary schools in Oldenburg and the surrounding area. A tool was developed that enables the game materials to be generated specifically for each school. The material was included as module B2 in the "IT2School - discovering IT together" project in 2016 and continuously developed and used in the pilot project on Computing Science and Technology in primary schools in Lower Saxony in 2018. It is available again after a conversion phase. At the address

https://it2school.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/internetversteher/index.php, the materials for the lesson can be downloaded for specific schools.

The IT2School project also provides many other materials on other topics for non-specialist teachers in years 4-10.

The material for the Internet game was also successfully modified at the Children's University on 16 March 2011 on the topic "`WWW - Who wants to know how the Internet works?"', so that the game could be implemented with 750 children.

last updated: 07.11.2022 by Ira Diethelm