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This is one of the series of objects that belong to Augmented Reality scenario for fairy tale augmented project - FANTASIA. The object is represented by a texture drawing of a starfish for Fantasia Augmented Reality mobile application. Variation 1.

The “Fairy Science Self-training Manual” is designed to support teachers and parents/guardians who intend to implement the FAnTASIA activities in a school environment, outdoors, a science centre or/and at home.

A fairy tale book entitled “ON THE ROAD TO THE SUN PALACE”.
The fairy tale hero is an illiterate boy Yiannis, who is a shepherd. The adventure of Yiannis starts when he makes the bold decision to travel west to find the Palace of the Sun. During his…

Fairy Tale Narration (English) - Chapter 1
1. Where is the sun palace?
Yiannis, a young boy living on the mountains wants to know where the sun hides after his long journey in the sky, but nobody can give him a good answer.

Fairy Tale Narration (English) - Chapter 2
2. Long will be the journey to the sun palace
Yiannis starts a journey walking west with his dog to find the sun palace behind the top of the mountain, but it appears that the sun always hides behind…

Fairy Tale Narration (English) - Chapter 3
3. Materials that do not sink
Yiannis reaches to shore and discovers that the sun hides in the sea. Now he has to find out which things float in order to construct a raft to continue his journey.

Fairy Tale Narration (English) - Chapter 4
4. Travelling on a door
The two companions sail on the sea but still they are not able to reach the place where the sun sets. Thankfully, when they run out of supplies, they are saved by a ship.

Fairy Tale Narration (English) - Chapter 5
5. Yiannis finds a teacher
The cook of the ship becomes Yiannis’ first teacher. He explains to him how metal sips float. The captain and Anastasia, the Engineer’s daughter, prove to him that the Earth is…

Fairy Tale Narration (English) - Chapter 6
6. The ship-school
“How the day becomes night”, “why we do not understand that the Earth moves” are Yiannis’ questions that need to be answered by the Engineer and his daughter.

Fairy Tale Narration (English) - Chapter 7
7. A “journey” to space
The question “why people living on the dawn side of the Earth do not fall off” is the path driving Yiannis to the space, the motion of the satellites and the force of gravity.