This Zone gives primary school students participating in the Great Science Share the opportunity to develop their enquiry skills. Students can:
Share their own questions, investigations and and findings with the scientists
Build their enquiry skills by making connections between their investigations and the scientists’ work
Get to know science in the real world.
Scientists have answered questions about their enquiries on their profiles. Take a look at your Dashboard to see who will be attending your Chat. Students can prepare their questions for those who have accepted.
The Great Science Share have resources, such as the question teller to support students in preparing their questions.
You’ll need:
To run I’m a Scientist you will need to:
Arrange IT equipment for students (e.g. book computer suite, laptops, or tablets). I’m a Scientist works best when students have access to their own device. Make sure that school students are able to login on your organisations’ devices.
We’ve prepared 3 lesson plans which are designed to increase your students’ engagement with the activity.
The lesson plans help students understand the variety of scientists that are taking part in the Zone. Designed to cover multiple aspects of the curriculum, students are able to feel more prepared ahead of their live Chat and subsequently meet more of the learning outcomes.
If you have booked a Chat on behalf of another teacher then pass on this guidance sheet to them
Give access to students
From your dashboard, click MANAGE AND VIEW CLASSES to see the list of classes you’ve created.
Give access to the activity through the pre-made login cards. Students can login with the username and password on each card. If this is not possible for you, then give students the unique registration URL where they can sign up with an email address.
Give your students an opportunity to read the profiles of the scientists taking part and prepare their questions. For more help with this, see our suggested lesson plans ❯
Go to your Dashboard. You will find a link to your Chat under ‘Chat Bookings’
A moderator will have set the live Chat up for you. Only students in your class can access your booked Chat.
If you have any issues call us ASAP on 01225 326 892
Ask: Follow up question
Following on from a live Chat, students can ask more in depth questions to scientists taking part in the Zone, even if they weren’t in the live Chat.
After your live Chat: Reflection
Transcript
After your live Chat, you can use your teacher account to download a copy of the transcript. Don’t worry if you close the Chat window – you will also be emailed a link to the transcript at the end of the day.
Multiple interventions
I’m a Scientist is suitable for students aged 10 to 18. Studies show that engaging with an activity over multiple interventions is shown to increase students’ aspirations as well as increase the chance of them meeting multiple outcomes at a deeper level.
Student participation certificate
Students are able to download and print their own certificate from their dashboard. However, if you’d rather download the student participation certificate template yourself you can do so here: Download the Participation Certificate ❯
We’re here to help. If you should have any questions, or need a hand with anything, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us at support@iasuk.ddev.site or by calling (+44) 01225 326 892.
You can also chat with us in the Staffroom Chat ❯ weekdays 9am to 5pm, whilst Zones are running. (you must be logged in with your I’m a Scientist username)
