Looks like I seem to revisit these resources every couple of years. I have included 4 wakelets at the end of this post which contain a wealth of resources to check out for this month... or anytime.
I wrote about this in March of 2019, as well as 2017 and included long lists of resources. You can check out the 2017 post out here, and the 2019 post here. You can look back at the post on Women and Girls in Science here. This year we are celebrating the first female Vice President in the United States. It still both amazes and depresses me to have made both so much progress in my lifetime, and such slow incremental progress.
Always a great place to start, you can find an incredible assortment of lessons, videos, images and information at
https://womenshistorymonth.gov/. This site pulls in resources from the LOC, from The Smithsonian, from The National Art Gallery and more.
Microsoft has put together a really cool immersive gallery for Women's History Month. You can check it out here. You can check it out here. You can also sign up for this experience with your class. The signup info ishere. You're looking for "Microsoft's Legacy Project Virtual Museum "Women's History Month Experience” Workshop". They have 1 hour or 2 hour, happening daily all month.
Nearpod has a nice selection of lessons to choose from. Click here to check them out.
Facing History has 9 great ideas to explore for Women's History Month. Click here.
Women in Science
Breakthrough films and SciFri have an amazing collection of short videos featuring women in science. Check out the site or the YouTube Channel
Brain Pop and Brain Pop Jr offer more ways to learn about famous women in history. Check out their ideas for educators here or here.
Learning for Justice reminds us to go beyond the famous firsts and to recommit to teaching about persistent women. Check out their resources here.
PBS has some great short videos to teach about women in history. Check out their resources here.
Looking for books for younger readers? You can usethis collection on Epic or create your own to share with your students.
You can download and print the entire timeline of Women in STEM from
Science with Sophie. Check it out here.
A 29 video playlist of Read-alouds for Women's History Month. If the video only shows one and stops, here's the link to the whole playlist. I did add various versions of some books, so pick and choose if you'd like. I may add more as I have time. Feel free to suggest links in the comments.
Here's a Women's History Month Spotify list from Emily's List. Enjoy.
I did not create these Wakelet collections. Thanks to rfluegel, RoseLuna706 and AllieTheLibrarian for publicly sharing their collections. The last one is gigantic- from the Westborough Public Libraries. Note that most of these books are available via C/W Mars libraries.
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International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Today marked the 5th annual International Day of Women and Girls in Science. We, in the U.S. are still losing the battle to get more girls and women into science. There have been some positive notes, legislation that passed last year may help, but overall, women are not equally represented in science. Strange, since the first step in solving most design challenges is empathy. If women are not equally represented in the sciences, how can we expect the same level of empathy to guide the design process? Check out the video below and a couple of links to share. From the UN, this link, from Forbes magazine- this linkwww.womeninscienceday.org/, and from Women in Science Day, this link. Or follow some of the great links with this hashtag, #WomenInScienceDay.
One way to get more girls into STEM fields is to introduce it early. This is a FREE course from Engineering is Elementary. The PDF link for the syllabus is here.
More Black History Month Links
Rob Morrill has been making a series of lithophanes to celebrate Black History Month, sharing his results on Twitter and his instructables online, as well as the Thingiverse files. These are pretty amazing. I've tried printing them a couple of times, not terribly successful, yet. However, Ken, the infamous art teacher, gave me some great tips to try to improve them tomorrow. I'm still at the copying stage- have not played with codeblocks yet.
Ideas to Share
Before I share all of the great links from TCEA, a couple of others that caught my eye this past week.
The SheetsCon 2020 free online conference is coming up in March (11th and 12th). This is a 2 day conference to help you learn more than you have ever imagined about using Google Sheets. They have some great speakers lined up. This will range from super practical, you can pick this up and use it in your classwork tomorrow, to super geeky, you, or at least I, watch and wonder what the heck that one was...
Resources from TCEA from Wanda Terral
I embedded Wanda's Wakelet below, but what got me really interested in checking out the presentations from TCEA was Wanda's Data Dashboard presentation. This is something I want to learn more about. Enjoy all of Wanda's links, as well as Miguel's. I didn't embed all of Eric Curts' links, but here you go.
Resources from TCEA from Miguel Guhlin
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