My goal this week was to familiarize myself with the methods that are used in order to effectively teach girls. The most general and comprehensive resource that I found on this topic is a book called “Teaching the Female Brain” that was published in 2009, implying that this has been a standard for around the […]
Next Generation Science Standards and More on Why Girls Leave STEM
This week I wanted to learn about what 4th and 5th graders are expected to learn in their science classes. Schools follow Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in order to create a curriculum for their students. NGSS was created in 2013 in order to guide teacher curriculums in a world that is centered around scientific […]
Girls Who Identify With Science
I set out this week to find what causes girls to leave STEM. The study that I read outlined a survey of over 9,000 ten and eleven year old pupils with the goal of discovering what causes girls who identify with science to feel this way and have science as a goal in their future. […]