10 years of inspiring teachers across the world to provide time for pupils to think and work as scientists. Developing practical science with 5-14 year olds wherever you are.

Getting involved is as easy as…

1. Get registered

Register to explore the website.

Save the date: 17th June 2025. 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 social media sharing. Get the campaign handles here.

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

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 encourage 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, practise and develop the craft of scientific question-asking.

Read the review

By Professor Lynne Bianchi & Tina Whittaker

These Chips Can! links to the Great Electricity Share. The book is written by Artful Fox Creatives and tells the tale of change over time in the northern town of Oldham. Track the change in the way electrical objects were made and how they have influenced how we live today. The story tells of the impact of the microchip and semiconductor in a way that captures imagination through three points in history.

By Jules Pottle & Rufus Cooper

Izzy Jones’s Quantum World links to the Great Quantum World. 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.

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