This project will involve students researching a particular woman in STEM. They will learn about the woman through research. Then, they will plan and design a brochure to inform others about the accomplishments of this person and more. Students will need to demonstrate knowledge of research skills.

What is included?:

30 editable brochure templates to choose from with clip art of each woman.

  Editable blank brochure template for students to choose a different woman and complete their own drawing.

Editable grading rubric.

Editable student planning sheet with bibliography

Print AND Digital Google Slides versions of brochure and rubric.

List of women to choose from.

Color versions and black/white versions for printing.

There is no prep, it’s ready to print for students or digitally assign in Google Classroom!

Women included:

1. Ada Lovelace – computer programming

2. Mae Jemison – First African American woman to travel in space

3. Antonia Novello – First female and Hispanic U.S. Surgeon General

4. Dr. Christine Mann Darden – research into supersonic aircraft noise

5. Cynthia Breazeal – Pioneer of social robotics

6. Diana Trujillo – Aerospace engineer

7. Dorothy Vaughan – mathematician and NASA’s first black manager

8. Elizabeth Blackwell – first woman in the U.S. to earn a medical degree

9. Ellen Ochoa – first Hispanic woman to go to space

10. Emilie du Chatelet – Mathematician, physicist and author

11. Emmy Noether – Mathematical physics

12. Euphemia Hayes – first African American woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics

13. Florence Nightingale – founder of modern nursing

14. Hedy Lamarr – Pioneered the technology that influenced Modern Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth communication systems

15. Hypatia – mathematician, astronomer

16. Jane Goodall – conservationist who studies chimpanzees

17. Katherine Johnson – figured out the paths for the spacecraft to orbit Earth and land on the moon

18. Margaret Hamilton – led the software engineering division of the MIT Instrumentation Lab

19. Marie Curie – discovery of radium and polonium. Contributing to finding treatments for cancer

20. Marjorie Lee Browne – mathematician and educator

21. Maryam Mirzakhani – First woman and first Iranian to earn a Fields Medal

22. Mary Cartwright – mathematician

23. Mary Golda Ross – first Native American woman engineer

24. Mary Jackson – NASA’s first black female engineer

25. Rachel Carson – known for her writings on environmental pollution

26. Rosaline Franklin – Chemist

27. Sally Ride – first American woman to fly in space

28. Sofia Kovalevskaya – first female professor of mathematics

29. Sophie Germain – first woman to receive an award in mathematics

30. Tu Youyou – Key contributor to a malaria fighting drug

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Includes a reading for students to learn about interactions of marine organisms in the ocean and how transfer of energy occurs. This can help students complete many of the slides.

Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, understand/label visual representations and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. See the preview to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides and print version are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:

Biotic Factors

Symbiotic relationships in the ocean (commensalism, mutualism, parasitism)

Carrying capacity, limiting resources

Marine food chains, marine food webs and marine trophic levels (primary producers, consumers, detritus, decomposers)

Transfer of energy in the ocean

Marine primary productivity productivity (gross primary production, net primary production)

*Please note that this is not an editable resource*

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Includes a brief reading for students to learn about how each cycle is significant in the ocean, how they impact phytoplankton and other ties into marine ecology.

The activities include short answer text. See the preview to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides and print version are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:

Carbon Cycle in the ocean

Nitrogen Cycle in the ocean

Phosphorus Cycle in the ocean

*Please note that this is not an editable resource*

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Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, understand/label visual representations and review concepts.

Two slides also include a reading comprehension article that can help students complete ocean acidification questions.

Ocean chemistry activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. See the preview to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides and print version are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:

Vocabulary (Transparency, ocean acidification, adhesion, rule of constant proportions, salinity, solutes and cohesion)

How transparency affects marine life

Sound propagation

Composition of seawater

Effects on salinity due to temperature

Ocean Acidification – what is it? How does it affect marine life and humans?

*Please note that this is not an editable resource*

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Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, understand/label visual representations and review concepts.

One slide also includes a reading comprehension article that can help students complete many of the slides.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. See the preview to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides and print version are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:

Vocabulary (gyres, thermocline, Coriolis Effect, oscillations, Ekman Spiral, Upwelling, Downwelling)

Labeling layers of the atmosphere

Understanding the Coriolis Effect

Labeling the 5 subtropical gyres and understanding how they work

Upwelling and it’s benefits to marine ecosystems

Ekman transport

1 reading with questions on El Nino

1 reading about the “Friendly Floaties” incident in 1992, plotting locations where the rubber bath toys were found and estimating which surface currents brought them there

*Please note that this is not an editable resource*

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Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, understand/label visual representations and review concepts. One slide also includes a reading comprehension article that can help students complete many of the slides.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. See the preview to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides and print version are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:

Vocabulary (eye, eye wall, rain bands, storm surge)

Labeling parts of a storm

Storm names around the world (hurricane, cyclone, typhoon)

Storm development (disturbance, depression, tropical storm, hurricane)

Hurricane categories (1-5)

Storm surges and how hurricanes dissipate

Hurricane formation

The Coriolis Effect and spin direction

*Please note that this is not an editable resource*

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The PowerPoint is broken up into 4 different parts:
Engage: This is a question that is used to get students thinking and engaged before the lesson begins. They answer the question in their guided notes.
Checkpoints: These are questions throughout the lesson that assess what students are learning as they go through. The student’s answer these questions in their guided notes. Answer key is included in the PowerPoint & PDF.
↵ Bringing it Back: This final question wraps up the lesson by tying student’s new knowledge with the engagement piece.
✐Summarize! Students can summarize their learning by writing, drawing or both.

The PowerPoint is editable. The titles, images and clip art are not editable.

Guided Notes:
The Cornell notes style guided notes follow along with the lesson. This allows the students to go through the lesson with the class as the teacher goes through the slides or they can fill it out independently if they are using the Google Slides digitally. All the text aside from the title and cover page are editable.

The Google Slides version of the guided notes include helpful tools for students to use and moveable digital pieces in the form of highlighter strokes so students can highlight key words and information.

Includes two cover pages for interactive notebook booklet sand digital interactive notebooks. One in color and one in black and white.

The Google Slides version of the guided notes are not editable.

Assessment:
The assessment contains 25 questions with a mix of vocabulary matching, short answer and multiple choice questions. An answer key is included. Everything is editable except for the title and any included clip art lip art.

A self-grading Google Forms version is included. The link is in the resource. The google Forms assessment has the same questions but they are all multiple choice.

Content covered:

Geometry of water molecules
Covalent & Hydrogen Bonds
Polarity/Polar molecule
Cohesion
Adhesion
Surface Tension
temperature Vs Heat
States of Matter water exists in (Solid, liquid, gas)
molecular movement and interactions with hydrogen bonds in each state of matter
Heat capacity and specific heat
Why is water considered a universal solvent?

*Each resource is in PDF and PowerPoint format for easy editing.

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Each question is in short or long response format so students explain the topic and their understanding.

There are 3 ways to use these editable warm ups:

1. Use them with slides as students fill out the answers on their own personal answer sheet.

2. Use the answer sheets with the questions on them without the slides. I personally have my students hole punch them each week to add into a pronged folder or binder to use as a study tool. You can even print them at 90% so students can glue them into their interactive science notebooks!

3. Use them for online learning or digitally with the Google Slides version. This is also perfect for digital interactive student notebooks.

A PowerPoint version is included for editing and a PDF version is included for easy printing.

*The questions are editable but the fonts and clip art are not due to copyright.*

Included in this resource:
2 weeks of warm ups (10 total).
3 editable templates to fit the needs of you and your students
PowerPoint Slides with the questions to project for your students
Answer key

Content covered:
Water as a polar molecule

Covalent vs hydrogen bonds

High heat capacity

Water’s states of matter (molecule behavior and hydrogen bonds)

Viscosity

Cohesion and adhesion

Water as a universal solvent

Heat transfer

*Each resource is in PDF and PowerPoint format for easy editing.

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Review vocabulary and key concepts about ocean water.

The link for Google Forms is available in the resource. An answer key in included in the resource and in Google Forms.

Task cards can be printed 1 per page or 4 per page. The answer sheet can be printed 1 per page or 2 per page to save paper. I typically print 2 per page so they’re perfect for gluing into interactive notebooks.

*Please note that the text is editable in each task card but the titles and clip art are not editable.

Content covered:
Cohesion
Adhesion
Surface tension

Viscosity

Water as a universal solvent

Transparency

Density

Pressure

Sound Propagation

Ocean temperatures

Salinity and solutes

Composition of seawater

Dissolved gasses

Rule of Constant Proportions

Ocean Acidification

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Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop, matching or short answer text. Watch the preview video to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:
Structure of water molecule
Water’s states of matter (structure, molecule behavior and hydrogen bonds)
Cohesion, adhesion, surface tension
Covalent bonds, hydrogen bonds
Polarity

Why is water essential for life? (universal solvent, adhesion/cohesion, high specific heat, density)

Vocabulary (hydrogen bonds, cohesion, adhesion, covalent bonds, density, molecules, viscosity, specific heat, solvent)

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