The award-winning campaign continuing to inspire 5-14 year olds to take the lead in asking, investigating and sharing scientific questions they care about with new audiences.

An inclusive, non-competitive and collaborative experience for all.

Encouraging young people to be curious about the world around them.

New 2024
Great Guided Enquiries and
Great Enrichment Activities

Leading up to the GSSfS sharing day on 11th June 2024

2024 Certificate Pack

Celebrate your pupil’s successes and raise the profile of science enquiry in your school with new #GSSfS2024 certificates and sharing resources.

Upcoming webinars to inform and guide you.
All streamed on Zoom from 3.45-4.30pm. Free to access by booking here

1st May: GSSfS with My Science Club
8th May: Sharing Pupil Voice within the Great Science Share for Schools

1. Get registered

Register to explore the website

Save the date: 11 June 2024. As it’s an inclusive campaign, if this date doesn’t suit you then find one close to it that does!

Watch this introductory video to learn more about what it’s like

Follow the social media messages using @GreatSciShare

2. Get informed

Use the Great Science Skills Starters to upskill teachers and pupils to ask-investigate and share scientific questions

Be inspired by Great Science Enquiries & Ideas to inspire your pupils to start asking-investigating-sharing!

Use science days or special weeks to involve pupils starting to ask-investigate-share. See how the GSSfS and BSW themes and calendars align here.

3. Get sharing

Design your science event or day and invite your school community, special guests, local press and secondary schools to listen and talk to the pupils about their questions.

Share a good news story in a blog we’ll support you with!

Read more or ask for advice from greatscishare@manchester.ac.uk

Find out more through the GSSfS Blog Series…

Enrich your GSSfS experience by being safe in what you do, linking with scientists via online chats with I’m a Scientist, involving early years pupils, STEM Ambassadors and more!

If you wish to write a blog to show how your organisation or school work supports GSSfS, email greatscishare@manchester.ac.uk

Smart Pickings (2nd Edition) young readers with the world of science. It promotes talk between children, their classmates, teachers, parents, family and friends.

The book introduces a range of diverse and inspirational scientists who have or are making a difference through their innovations and research. A book to encouraging us all to wonder, ask questions and ask 'Who are they?', 'How might I be like them?'

By Professor Lynne Bianchi

QuBuild book brings a new classroom approach for primary teachers to teach the explicit knowledge of scientific question-asking. This is an essential skill when children are involved in finding out about the world around them through science enquiry.

Challenging the assumption that because children ask lots of questions in science, this automatically leads to meaningful learning of the enquiry curriculum, QuBuild is important for all children developing as scientific thinkers. It outlines an approach to explicitly plan for, practice and develop the craft of scientific question-asking.

Read the review

By Professor Lynne Bianchi & Tina Whittaker

Izzy Jones’s Quantum World links to the 2024 Guided Enquiry. Written by a pair of award-winning primary science teachers, this book tells the tale of Izzy Jones as she tries to find her place in the world. She has to work through her anxieties and figure out what she can, and can't, control in her life.

Reading the book will give you an insight into Izzy's inner world at the same time as exemplifying the concept of variables in science. It also provides and introduction to the world of quantum computers.

Access the Guided Enquiry here

By Jules Pottle & Rufus Cooper

Doffa’s Reindeer – a story about air pollution inspires pupils to ask questions about the impact of climate change.

‘Doffa’s Reindeer’ is the story of a family in the frozen north. Doffa is a reindeer herder who lives within the arctic circle, where the land is covered in snow all winter long. Food is hard to find but the reindeer manage well enough on the lichens which lie below the blanket of snow. As always, the passing of time brings changes: Doffa grows old and his granddaughter, Ibba, comes to care for him. The town is changing too and Ibba fears their traditional way of life might not survive…

Access the Guided Enquiry here

By Jules Pottle & Rufus Cooper