Ways of implementing

Ways of implementing the activity

Who can participate?

The activity is aimed at students attending:

Secondary Education Schools (12-16 years old)
Primary Education Schools (grades: D, E, F).

The participations are are categorized in:

Primary School participations
Middle School participations
High School participations

which are evaluated separately.

Advice

Responsible for the activity must be at least one educator though even more should be encouraged to help, especially from fields like Physics, Biology, Philology, Arts, Computer science etc.

How can I implement the activity?

Schools from all over the world are eligible to implement the activity as long as they communicate and cooperate with the organizers. Besides, operators can organize and conduct events (live performances or video contest) in their country.

The implementation of the activity can be done in the following ways:

How and when do I register?

Organizations who want to conduct an event fill in the registration form here.

Teacher who want to implement the activity independently fill in the registration form here.

What procedure do you propose me to follow?

The educators can include their educational activities at relevant sessions of their teaching program:

as project work
at educational groups that are operating in the school framework (eg theatrical team or music team…)
lead independed teams.

Suggested Steps:

School enrollment in action
Setting up a group of students
Discussion and joint choice of subject (must come from a field of science)
Discussion and division of roles, responsibilities and activities
Set up working groups
Update organizers for days and hours of the school group meetings

The students, according to their interests, can participate in more than one team. At the end of the activity, every team in collaboration with the responsible educators will be called to submit a document outlining the contributors of the performance (you can find a sample here), as well as a report describing all the promoting actions the team implemented (you can find a sample here). Also, the educators during two stages of the activity will be called to fill in the observation form. This is about the capturing – writing down their experience since the first moment of the activity, describing how the scientific concepts were represented and dramatized, what theatrical techniques were used, examples that highlighted the creativity (imagination, innovation, originality) and the improvisation as well as embodied moves that were used for the representation of the scientific thematic chosen. Such a documentation is especially important for the scientific/pedagogical assessment of the whole process.

Advice

Each school can take up and implement some (if not all) of the following actions (always according to the students’ abilities):

Development, processing and dramatizing of the script
Selection/production of the videos relevant to the script’s thematic
Selection/composing and live performing of the music of the play
Design and creation of the scenery and costumes
Choreography creation if applicable
Lights/Sound
Promotion of the performance
Recording of the performance (for the schools that will participate in the video contest)

Tip

In “Material“, you can find Implementation Guidelines and Experimental exercises!

Evaluation & Feedback Documents

In order to investigate if students’ participation in the activity increases their interest in dealing with science and to provide you with better and targeted support, we propose you to fill in the following documents and send them to us, according to the timetable.

Primary Schools
Document	Description	When
Primary students’ Questionnaire 1st Phase 2nd Phase	This questionnaire is complemented by students and it’s the tool that allows us to investigate if their participation in the activity increases their interest in dealing with science	2 times 1^st: When setting up the group. Before starting the activity 2^nd: After finishing the activity
Primary teachers’ Questionnaire In all phases you fill in the following document	This questionnaire is complemented by the teacher who is responsible for the implementation of the activity. The aim is to identify the points where the teacher needs support.	2 times 1^st: When setting up the group. Before starting the activity 2^nd: After finishing the activity
Primary Teacher’s Reflective Journal In all phases you fill in the following document	This is a snapshot of your experience from the very first moment, that shows how activity is being applied to your school, what is happening during it, and describes your own reactions and your feelings, as well as how students deal with that activity (complemented by teachers in at least three phases)	3 times 1^st: When setting up the group. Before starting the activity 2^nd: During the implementation of the activity 3^rd: After finishing the activity

Secondary Schools
Document	Description	When
Secondary students’ Questionnaire 1st Phase 2nd Phase	This questionnaire is complemented by students and it’s the tool that allows us to investigate if their participation in the activity increases their interest in dealing with science	2 times 1^st: When setting up the group. Before starting the activity 2^nd: After finishing the activity
Secondary Teacher’s Reflective Journal In all phases you fill in the following document	Recording the way, techniques and methods for the transfer / representation of scientific knowledge (complemented by teachers in two phases)	2 times 1^st: When setting up the group. Before starting the activity 2^nd: After finishing the activity

Ways of implementing