The demonstrator’s main aim is to give the opportunity to high school students to stage a play and dramatize scientific concepts and knowledge from the material being taught in schools. In this way, students learn science in a creative way.
In the LSTT project, participated 30 schools both public and private. The project is addressed at students between 12 and 16 years old. At least one teacher is responsible for each school/participation (2 teachers are recommended, one from art and one from science). Students and teachers select a science theme that would like to develop as a theatrical performance. In this way, it is given the opportunity to students to inquire about scientific concepts and issues of their interest and express their findings in creative ways, such as the development of theatrical scripts, costumes, scenery, choreography, etc.
The LSTT demonstrator aims at the enhancement of the students’ cognitive involvement, their representation of scientific content using their cognitive processes, the students’ sensorimotor involvement using their bodies or gestures, their emotional involvement, the social interaction and communication between them, the use of past experiences and the creation of new ones based on sociopolitical and historical framework and on beliefs and behaviors, their brain, body and emotion coordination and finally the holistic use of their personality and their motives.