Teacher Resources

On this page you’ll find all the teaching materials we’ve developed for the I’m a Scientist event. They’re designed to develop students’ discussion skills, and help the event run as smoothly as possible in your classroom.

Teacher notes booklet with suggested lesson plans (PDF)

Click to download teacher notes booklet with suggested lesson plans (PDF)

Materials for running the event

Teacher notes

Lesson plan materials

Lesson 1: “You’re the Judges!”

Lesson 2: “Meet the Scientists”

Other materials and useful links on the site

  • Evictions poster (PDF)
  • Student participation certificates – Templates to create certificates for your students as a record of their participation
  • Live chat booking page – Live chats can be booked any time during the two weeks of the event, though you must be signed up to take part in the event; we’ll email you to let you know when you can start booking chats. You can also book a live chat by emailing admin@imascientist.or.ke.
  • Staffroom – The staffroom is open during the two weeks of the event from 11am to 6pm. You can chat with the moderators and it’s a great place to get help quickly.

We believe that information should be free, especially in education, so this part of the site is accessible to everyone. All teachers (and anyone else) are free to use anything we’ve created on the site. This material has been created by Gallomanor (unless otherwise stated) and we have NOT copyrighted it. All material is licensed under a (CC) Creative Commons attribution license.