ABSTRACT
This approach was developed to share with young children some relevant and interesting insights into a scientist’s life and work. The teacher normally reads aloud an appropriate narrative of a scientist’s life and work with the opportunity for the listening children to act out roles of different characters in the story or even to pretend to be the scientist and echo what they may be doing in their work. The PSTT website provides an example of this illustrated by a mini historical play (based on Mary Anning) that could easily be enacted by several groups of children. Stories about the work of any scientists (e.g., the Montgolfier brothers embarking on the first hot air balloon flight (see Figure 9.1) can be introduced through this technique.
