ABSTRACT
The dramatic science approach can provide a lively, first hand opportunity for children to engage directly with scientific processes and concepts. There are varied opportunities to enact, explore, examine and question scientific ideas. Children, for example, could be asked to move like melting chocolate, create a ‘frozen’ moment in the germination of a seed or depict a skill they think Isaac Newton possessed as a young boy. The drama activities (in this book) are designed to encourage the development of curiosity and confidence in acting and talking about science in primary schools. They are intended to help to develop excitement and participation in learning. There are activities presented where the children are invited to improvise to represent a process or product, follow general guidance to demonstrate happenings or events or even recite from a script. For some strategies the children are required to mime; for others talk and discussion is vital. All the drama approaches, though, are designed to help to foster a sound understanding of, and about, science.
