Schools
Creating and adapting lessons
Do you have a great lesson, but feel like it’s not engaging boys and girls equally?
Follow these steps to adapt your lesson to be more gender-inclusive.
- Audit for gender balance and gender representations.
- Remove any gender representations that enforce stereotypes of women and girls in STEM. Or keep them, but actively challenge them and present alternative viewpoints to students.
- Augment existing resources (human, text, video) to ensure a balanced gender representation. Particularly look for women in relevant STEM careers who demonstrate creativity and collaboration.
- Design in opportunities for collaboration.
- Anticipate the need for extra support in technical or hands-on activities and provide those opportunities.
- Augment learning experiences to include social relevance.
- Open up learning and assessment tasks to include choice and creativity.
Want to design or annotate your own lessons?
Using the Seven principles of gender-inclusive lesson design, you can design lessons that will engage not only girls, but all your students in STEM.
Resources
Lessons
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Lessons for years 5 and 6
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Lessons for years 7 and 8
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Lessons for years 9 and 10
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Poster series
From Associate Professors to Research Scientists, here are a range of posters ready to download featuring women in a variety of STEM roles.
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