This paper highlights an investigation of how middle school students responded to a theatre performance designed to portray science as a humanistic and relatable endeavour that youth -- similar to the youth in the audience -- engage in during their everyday lives. The play included in this study was generated as a part of a design research project…

Reader's theater is an activity in which students, while reading directly from scripts, are able to tell a story in its most entertaining form. Typically, teachers create or purchase premade scripts of stories, and students focus on reading those scripts in a fluent and expressive manner. However, in the lesson presented here, students turn the…

Seventh grade pupils dramatized a narrative taken from a school textbook. This is considered a valuable device for motivating and providing active experience in communicating. The steps in planning and performing the teaching unit are described. The cooperatively produced final script is appended. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)