Science's Up!

A variation of the famous "Time's up" where a player must make his team guess the maximum number of scientists!

Dive into the diverse world of STEM with our "Science's Up!" inspired card game! It is the ideal way for students to discover or rediscover real and fictional scientists from diverse backgrounds, cultures and gender. Allowing them to understand the importance of role models that resemble them. In the course of three rounds, they will have to find the maximum of scientists to win!

Quickplay: A game is played using our deck of scientists cards (42 are already provided but students can also create them). Each team gets one minute to guess as many names as possible, with one player (the Cluegiver) giving clues to his/her teammates (the Guessers. Players can always use sound effects and pantomime, but speech becomes more restricted as the game progresses: In Round 1 - Cluegiver can say anything, but passing is not allowed. In Round 2 - Cluegiver can say only one word, 1 guess only, passing allowed. In Round 3 - Cluegiver can't say anything. Only mimes and sounds, 1 guess only, passing allowed. All cards are shuffled together and stacked face down in the center of the table. This stack is the deck. Each round ends when all names in the deck have been guessed. All names are put back into the deck for the next round. High score after the third round wins.

This is a gamified way of discovering new content with learners; you can ask them to choose for themselves the concepts to write on the cards. So before playing the students will have to look for scientists from different backgrounds, cultures, genders with the constraint of having representation on the cards or they could look for jobs in STEM. Later on, it could open discussion on role models, intersectionality...depending on level.