The anemometer invented by Leonardo da Vinci has been built in the projects Science Workshop
and Science facts, characters an ideas
in the school year 2005-2006 by a group of teachers and students of ITIS Galileo Ferraris of Naples. The purpose of these projects can be summarized in this way: to re-xamine old devices or experiments, build them in laboratory and define modules for their integration into modern didactics (one of the most meaningful experiences that is possible thanks to Leonardo's anemometer is to compare the measurements of wind speed obtained by an electronic simulation with the one supplied by the anemometer itself).
Such operational procedures allow to development of the cultural and historical area in which the devices were invented and the ability to carry out flexible didactics, to discover about the behavioural and didactic problems of the students and stimulate the learning of the best ones.
