How to win Girls’ Hearts with STEAM Education by Melanie Flores
In this TED Talk, engineer and entrepreneur Melanie Flores leads us through some ways of helping and guiding female teenagers interested in STEM during their high school years. This video helps teachers encourage girls to study STEAM by showing them a successful woman that has found her own company and works as a teacher and
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The next generation of women in STEAM
This video features a Honda Engineer, Melania Marimoto, answering some questions sent by some young girls at the PAST Foundation (an organization that exposes students to STEM learning). This video helps teachers encourage girls to study STEAM by showing them a successful woman working at a recognized company like HONDA. TYPE OF THE ACTIVITY: Video
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GIRLS vs BOYS
The material provides the opportunity to challenge the girls to try to prove they are as good as the boys in STEM subject. It shows the stereotypes in STEAM field concerning gender in order to be remembered and recognized. It gives the chance to rethink the traditional models and to understand and to distinguish stereotypes
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Scientix- Community for Science Education
Scientix is the number one community for science education in Europe. It aims to promote and support a Europe-wide collaboration among STEM teachers, education researchers, policymakers and other educational stakeholders to inspire students to pursue careers in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). TYPE OF THE ACTIVITY: Scentix resosurses can be learning
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StereoSciFi: Fighting stereotypes with science fiction
The materials links science to movies or books, such as hard sci-fi books and movies, which are rooted in anthropology, sociology, politics and psychology, to attract young people. It is a different and dynamic way of understanding the world because stories have the ability to create new meanings and ideas and to convey messages. The
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Gender bias in the STEAM world
The session begins by thinking about how many famous men we know in the world of STEAM and goes on to explore the role women have played. We will discover and discuss the importance of the work of famous women in STEAM. TYPE OF THE ACTIVITY: Lesson plan scenario, ppt DURATION: 1 period x 45
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Women in CERN
Lesson plan scenario to develop an understanding that women and girls can make significant contributions to the world of STEAM; to report CERN’s interest in gender equality, to relate gender equality and the free choice of women to work in STEAM areas with the scientific progress in general, to relate gender equality to other forms
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INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL in STEAM
The inSTEAM team offers a range of inclusive learning scenarios in the form of Inquiry Learning Spaces (ILSs) in the Go-Lab ecosystem. The ILSs are dedicated to three main themes: climate change, renewable energy, and water management. TYPE OF THE ACTIVITY: Lesson plan scenarios and materials DURATION: 3 periods x45 minutes and more TEACHING AID:
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Little beans for Little Hands
A website full of opportunities and materials for critical thinking, problem-solving, creative design, STEM challenges, projects, and demonstrations, They are all fantastic and budget-friendly ways to explore science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). TYPE OF THE ACTIVITY: The website with all kinds of teaching materials, resources, and ideas. DURATION: 2 periods x 45 min. for
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Nora of Henrik Ibsen
This educational material aims to use an iconic character of universal drama to provide an example of how we can reduce clichés about gender differences. Our main aim is to use the example of Nora Helmer – the main character of Henrik Ibsen’s play – to start a discussion about the role of women within
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