Several papers have highlighted the potential of network science to appeal to a younger audience of high school children and provided lesson material on network science for high school children. However, network science also provides a great topic for outreach activities for primary school children. Therefore, this article gives a short summary of an outreach activity on network science for primary school children aged 8–12 years. The material provided in this article contains presentation material for a lesson of approximately 1 hour, including experiments, exercises, and quizzes, which can be used by other scientists interested in popularizing network science. We then discuss the lessons learned from this material.

几篇论文强调了网络科学在吸引年轻的高中生受众方面的潜力，并为高中生提供了网络科学的教材。然而，网络科学也为小学生的外展活动提供了一个很好的话题。因此，本文简要总结了针对 8-12 岁小学生的网络科学外展活动。本文提供的材料包含大约 1 小时课程的演示材料，包括实验、练习和测验，可供其他有兴趣普及网络科学的科学家使用。然后，我们讨论从这些材料中吸取的教训。