Great Science Share

The Easter Bush Science Outreach Centre is proud to be a Scotland's Regional Champion and have a selection of hands-on investigations that can be used at home or in the classroom to help support your young science explorers to ask and answer their own scientific questions.

What is the Great Science Share?

The Great Science Share for Schools (GSSfS) is a national campaign run by the University of Manchester. It aims to engage young people in sharing their science questions and investigations with new audiences.

The Great Science Share for Schools is founded on the values of supporting:

child-led communication to new audiences
inclusivity and non-competitiveness
promoting collaboration

In 2021, the GSSfS went online and a record number of children - more than 91,000 across 14 countries worldwide - shared their science.

You can read about Great Science Share for Schools (GSSfS) in a special issue of the ASE journal Primary Science. On page 27 you will find our article "Opening a Can of Worms" that explains how we encouraged children to get hands-on with contemporary scientific research in Scotland through the GSSfS. Click here to read.

Scotland & the GSSfS

Thanks to the hard work of STEM educators in Scotland, the growth of Great Science Share for Schools events has exploded over the past few years:

2018: 14 events

2019: 24 events

2020: 101 events involving 9,055 young people

2021: 153 events involving 17,700 young people

Scotland now has two Regional Champions, our Easter Bush Science Outreach Centre and the Primary SSERC Team. Together, we want to build on this momentum of the campaign and engage even more pupils across Scotland.

If you missed our online information session for all Scottish primary teachers, you can catch up here.

GSSfS in Scotland 2022

What's new?

We are continuing to support young people in sharing their scientific questions at home or in school. We believe the GSSfS campaign can still thrive and keep to its core principles of being child-focused, inclusive and non-competitive and collaborative. This campaign is a great way to come together and to inspire the scientists of the future.

The Easter Bush Science Outreach Centre will be working with local primary schools and researchers at The Roslin Institute to create a simple open-ended experiment that brings real-life science into the classroom. Using one of our open-ended investigations from our Teacher Zone young people will create their own scientific question, use the scientific method and see how it is used by our research scientists.

Families can still join in with the GSSfS from home and use our EBSOC resources.

Browse our Science@Home Investigation Packs