This talk - will demonstrate through an Bolivian Sky-lore Folktale:
1. The Storyteller's Toolkit: A range of multi-sensory storytelling techniques that can make an inclusive learning experience for children with Additional Needs - including SEND children, EAL children; children from economically deprived communities and refugee families
2. The Storyteller's Prop-kit: A range of visual, textile and physical props that can communicate the science embedded within the story
3. The Storyteller's Activity-kit: A range of multi-sensory activities to enrich the children's understanding of the science within the story
4. The impact of using an inclusive approach to 'Teaching Science through Story" - on the development of science oracy and science capital within marginalised communities

Biography:

Cassandra Wye, has been working as an Inclusive Science Storyteller around the globe for over 30 years - creating resources for NASA, Singapore Science Centre, Royal Astronomy Society UK and British Council Africa. She has:
Co-created with Dr Megan Argo - "We Share the Same Moon Teaching Science Through Story" inclusive resource for Early Years, Primary and Specialist Education
Co-created for British Council Africa ' Under the Same Sky" - science storytelling training programme for emerging storytellers from economically deprived communities across Africa & Middle East
Created Fly Me to the Moon - a sensory science storytelling programme that delivers sessions for children with Additional Needs and CPD training for science educators