Translations:WikiArS/Case studies/65/en

Carolina Gutíerrez and Laia Sabán, intermediate-level students of final art edRa in Rubí, undertook the challenge of explaining the phenomenon of the giant crystals in Mexico's Naica Mine to children between the ages of six and eight years. Like their classmates Albert and Andreu, Carolina and Laia were advised by Àngels Canals, a lecturer in the Faculty of Geology at the University of Barcelona who has done research on the Naica crystals. They were also supported by their lecturer, Jaume Ferrer, and tutored by Wikimedian David Gómez. Instead of creating images for Wikipedia, Carolina and Laia decided to make two books for the Wikijunior project on Wikibooks. The challenge was to explain—in a way that young children could understand—where Naica is located, what kind of mine it is, what the caves with crystals are like, how the crystals formed, why they are so large, and why the crystals are larger in one cave than in the other.