A High School team item in which students perform a short play built around a scientific idea, judged out of 100 on content, presentation and effectiveness.
Science Drama turns science into theatre. A team of High School students writes and performs a short play that explains or dramatises a scientific idea: the discovery of a principle, a debate over climate, the journey of a medicine or the life of a scientist.
In the Kerala School Sasthrolsavam Science Fair it is a team item at High School (classes 8-10), open to girls and boys. The manual prints a team of eight for this item.
The marks reflect the unusual balance of the item: scientific content 30, presentation 50 and effectiveness 20. A play with perfect facts but no theatre will lose half the marks, while a lively performance with wrong science will lose the content marks.
The best entries make an audience learn something without feeling lectured.
Where Science Drama is run
Science Drama is part of the official Kerala School Sasthrolsavam Science Fair at High School level and is installed on eTalenter through the Science Fair template. Science theatre is used in education in many places; this page describes only the Kerala fair.
- Kerala, India
Key facts
- Team item, girls and boys; the manual prints eight per team.
- Offered at High School (classes 8-10) only.
- Scientific content 30, presentation 50, effectiveness 20.
- Category is Action in the template.
- The play should teach a scientific idea.
- Time limits follow the event’s own rules.
On eTalenter, Science Drama is filed under Action and typically scored with Marks. It appears in 1 ready-made event templates — each one can adjust its time limit, age-group assignment and scoring setup independently.
Across the templates that use it, Science Drama is most often entered as an Team competition, typically scored out of 100.
The scoring method the templates attach to this item, and what that scale means. The category this competition is filed under when a template is installed. Others in this category: Drama, Skit, Mime, Monoact, Mimicry, Stand-up Comedy, Role Play, Tableau eTalenter matches an item to its criteria on the words in its name, and creates exactly these when the template is installed. Each organiser scores this competition on its own criteria. These are the ones the ready-made templates carry.How it is scored
Where it sits
Judging criteria installed for it
How organisers judge it
What judges look at in Science Drama
What a Science Drama panel is actually weighing up, and where the marks are usually won or lost:
- Scientific content (30): accurate science woven into the story.
- Presentation (50): acting, voice, movement, staging and teamwork.
- Effectiveness (20): whether the audience understood and remembered the idea.
Treat these as the judging focus, not a fixed rubric: publish your own weighted criteria for Science Drama under Scoring Setup, or start from the judging and scoring software guide.
How to prepare for Science Drama
How entrants and their teachers usually get Science Drama right on the day:
- Choose one idea and build the plot around it.
- Write the script with clear roles for eight performers.
- Keep facts correct and check them with a science teacher.
- Rehearse voice projection and timing.
- Use simple props and costumes that support the story.
- End with a clear takeaway line.
- Rehearse once with an audience of younger students and ask what they learned.
- Idea to try: a courtroom trial of plastic bags
- Idea to try: the day a village’s well dried up and how rainwater harvesting changed it
- Idea to try: a trip through the digestive system with each organ as a character
Ready-made templates that already include this competition. Installing one sets it up for you.Events that run this (1)
Frequently asked questions
Is Science Drama judged individually or as a team?
Across eTalenter’s templates it’s most often run as an Team entry, though an organiser can set either participation type when assigning the item to an age group.
How many are on stage?
The manual prints eight for this item.
Is the acting or the science more important?
Presentation carries 50 marks and content 30, so both matter.
Can we use music?
Follow the event’s own rules for props and music.
Who can enter?
High School students only in this fair’s list.
Similar competitions
Items whose names share a word with this one — usually the same discipline in another form.
Want the full judging picture? Read the judging and scoring software guide, or browse every action competition item.
Try Science Drama in eTalenter
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