Enhancing student engagement through a gallery walk: applying multiple strategies to communicate scientific concepts.

ABSTRACT: Effective science communication skills are essential for scientists across sectors to engage with non-specialist audiences. This paper describes a gallery walk activity designed to help science students learn and practice strategies for making complex scientific concepts accessible to diverse audiences. The activity was implemented in a Science Communication course with 24 students from the Biotechnology and Food Technology programs. It introduces students to a range of rhetorical strategies, such as etymology, analogy, and personal storytelling, which are applied in exercises that encourage students to communicate scientific topics in engaging and relevant ways. The gallery walk encourages students to interact with eight stations, each focused on a specific communication strategy. By gene

SUBMITTER: Tan WA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12369320 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature