
Gender Equality Index
Graphs and indexes on gender inequality in the European Union. TYPE OF THE ACTIVITY: Website page DURATION: 45-50 minutes TEACHING AID: Computers, tablets or smartphones. Internet connection. TEACHING PRACTICE (STEP BY STEP): The page of “European Institute for Gender Equality Home” can show the situations of gender inequality in EU and help to understand where
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Does the glass ceiling still exist?
Explanation of what the “glass ceiling” is and how it works TYPE OF THE ACTIVITY: Video DURATION: 30-45 minutes TEACHING AID: Computers, tablets or smartphones. Internet connection. TEACHING PRACTICE (STEP BY STEP): Learning a concept and understanding how to interpret a data: data aren’t just number, and understand the situations behind the number is important.
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Female in STEM. We need more!
The video is a direct testimony of a woman studying and working in the STEM field. TYPE OF THE ACTIVITY: Video DURATION: 45 minutes TEACHING AID: Computers, tablets or smartphones. Internet connection. TEACHING PRACTICE (STEP BY STEP): Video can help young girls who want to pursue scientific studies and motivate them not to give up.
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Gender Equality Checklist
This checklist helps teachers to appraise if they or their colleagues are creating gender-inclusive STEAM learning environments. Three general situations are evaluated: Teacher-student interactions, Classroom activities, and Teaching considerations, all in terms of frequency of practice. TYPE OF THE ACTIVITY: Checklist DURATION: Applying the material requires 10 min approximately. Discussing the results could require 30
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STEAM career quiz
The quiz consists in 21 questions with 2 alternatives and is used to discover STEM careers based on activities that you prefer. There are 7 categories: outdoor, practical, scientific, office, creative and business. Once you take the test, each category has a percentage that shows your interest based on the answers of the quiz. Then,
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The Wheel game
The idea of the BBC TV game THE WHEEL was developed into a PowerPoint E-STEAM Assessment Game. The game contains some quiz elements related to S T E A M subjects’ knowledge. It is a game to be used to review the knowledge about famous women/men in STEAM. It is a fun game that the
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WOMEN IN SCIENCE
In light of International Women’s Day, a few women scientists were interviewed at an innovation centre in Frankfurt, Germany. They shared their stories about their respective journeys in the field of chemistry. TYPE OF THE ACTIVITY: Video and reflection DURATION: Individual study for upper-secondary teachers – all their career. TEACHING AID: Clariant Global – video
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Successful women in architecture
The subject of the activity is the discussion of stereotype no. 1: S1: Girls are less interested in STEAM subjects. Opinions from the history of music will be presented, “only men can play heavy wind instruments” “girls are too tender to make careers as artists”, “girls will become masculine if they take up brass instruments”.
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Teen interviews science role models to inspire others
Emily set out to interview women in STEM about their careers and shared those interviews with teachers and fellow students. But she quickly ran into a problem. She didn’t have any STEM role models. Encouraged by her former science teacher Sharon Mistretta, the teen searched the internet for women in STEM to interview. Then she
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SCARLET O’HARA- model of successful business woman
The past and the present are two antithetical structures, in which the focus falls on the evolution of society, the image of man and woman from ancient times to the present, starting from the concept that Jupiter is the supreme god of Roman mythology, who took care of the laws and social order, and Hera,
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