STEM Resources for Instructors to Help Women and Girls: Annotated Bibliography

Get instant access to off-the-shelf materials to excite and engage women and girls in STEM

Let's be honest, it's not that easy to find off-the-shelf materials for recruiting and retaining women and girls in STEM, especially free resources. As a busy teacher, you just don't have the time to spend hours doing internet research on classroom activities that will appeal to female learning styles, or on identifying female role models and associations.

That's why we created a bibliography that does this research for you. The best part is it's a downloadable book with clickable hotlinks that bring you directly to the websites for these primarily free resources.

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Women in STEM Resources Bibliography

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Bibliography Includes Links To:

Free videos with female role models in trades, technology and science careers
Online resources for finding female role models and e-mentors
Sample curriculum and tools for teaching to female learning styles
Websites designed for girls and women interested in trades and technology
Out-of-school and summer programs for girls in STEM
Online communities for girls, women and educators in STEM
How to find gender-segregated occupational data in your state

"For a long time, we heard from educators, 'Well, we can't find any girls who WANT to be welders'- but now, there's an increased perception that supporting female students in male-dominated careers is a much bigger deal, and there are resources available that can give all students a better ability to explore and pursue their interests. IWITTS materials like the STEM bibliography and Outreach Kit are a huge part of the resources we can offer to districts to help them serve their students. It's not just about Perkins compliance anymore."

~ Don Levine, CTE Education Specialist, Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

Examples From the Bibliography:

	Engineer Your Life Engineer Your Life (EYL) is a guide to engineering for high school girls. The website has videos and profiles of young, hip female engineers on the job and having fun. It also includes 10 reasons to love engineering and advice for pursuing an engineering career. Under "For Engineers" the website has a "Distribute EYL Resources" page where educators can request materials and download PDFs of an Engineer Your Life brochure and postcard picturing female role models to distribute to female students and get them excited about engineering.
	Alice Alice is free educational software. Its inviting interface and support of storytelling makes computer programming easier to learn and more fun for women and girls. The Alice team has developed textbooks, lessons, sample syllabuses, test banks, and more to support educators.
	Math Doesn't Suck The series of math books and accompanying websites -- including Math Doesn't Suck and Kiss my Math -- by Danica McKellar, the actress who played Winnie Cooper in The Wonder Years, help middle school and high school girls master math by making it fun and cool.
	Gender Inclusive Curriculum On the Gender Inclusive Curriculum website, from the University of South Australia and the Australian Learning & Teaching Council, educators can download the guidelines for the design of inclusive engineering education programs. This PDF booklet is based on the book Gender Inclusive Engineering Education and includes guidelines on benchmarking existing courses, designing an inclusive curriculum, and sample curricula. A link is provided to purchase the full book.

If you liked the resources above you are going to love our bibliography, which has over 100 entries AND provides you with information on the school level, program type, and career pathway information for the different resources. Think of how much your time is worth and what it would cost to do this type of searching. Our mission is to help make it as easy as possible for educators to bring female-friendly recruitment and retention techniques to their STEM classrooms. We know you don't have time to create everything from scratch or even to ferret out all these resources, which is why our organization created this bibliography, to make it easier for you.

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This bibliography could be helpful for every science, technology, engineering and trades educator in your school, or even your district or region. Save significantly over ordering individual licenses when you order a: 1) School-Wide/Institutional License; 2) Regional/School District License; or 3) State-Level License (contact us for a State-Level License). Simply choose which license you prefer during check out.

Bibliography Table of Contents:

I. Engaging women and girls in STEM education
a. Recruitment and outreach collateral and posters
b. Websites to share with female students and their parents
c. Retention resources for educators teaching women and girls
d. General tools and retention resources for STEM educators

II. Finding female role models in trades, technology & science
a. Women’s national and state associations
b. Videos of female role models

III. Social media online communities
a. Online communities for women
b. Online communities for girls
c. Online communities for educators

IV. Out-of-School and summer STEM programs for girls

V. Career support for women in trades, technology & science
a. Websites with career information for women
b. Education, labor market, and salary statistics

Women in STEM Resources Bibliography

Single License: $35

School-Wide/Institutional License: $399

Regional/School District License: $849

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