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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The PowerPoint Lesson and guided notes are 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.
↵ 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.

All links for the Google Slides and Google Forms are included in the resource.

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

Guided Notes:
The Cornell 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 PowerPoint digitally. All the text aside from the title and cover page are editable.

Includes two cover pages for interactive notebook booklets. One in color and one in black and white.

The Google Slides version of the notes includes text boxes for students to add in their own text. A Google Slides “toolbox” is included for students to reference to for changing fonts, adding images, drawings, etc. There are even drag and drop highlighter marks for students to make their notes more interactive.

*There is an included answer key for the guided notes to be easily printed and added to a teacher’s copy of an interactive science notebook.

Assessment:
The assessment contains 20 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 Google Slides version is included as well as a self-grading Google Forms version. The links are included in the resource.

Content covered:
Reactants and products of photosynthesis

Reactants and products of cellular respiration
Role of Chloroplasts and mitochondria

Comparing and contrasting cellular respiration and photosynthesis

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

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Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Google Slides and Print Activities

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The 7 types of Atoms stations include:

1. Discover – Students will learn research information about subatomic particles and periodic table arrangement.

2. Observe – Students will use a periodic table to answer questions.

3. Experiment – Students will create models of atoms with clay.

4. Write – Students will explain their answers in 2-3 sentences.

5. Create – Students will create a timeline of the atomic theory.

6. Sort – Students will organize and sort to match atomic models to their contributor.

7. Quiz – Students will answer a mix of 8 true/false, multiple choice and short answer questions.

*Each station should take students between 8-10 minutes to complete.*

The RESOURCE includes:

• Digital Google Slides link to perform stations online.
• Printable version of stations in color and black/white
• Editable PowerPoint version of stations.

Content covered:

Atoms

Atomic Structure and subatomic particle masses

Contributing scientists to the atomic theory (Democritus, Aristotle, John Dalton, J.J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, Erwin Schrödinger and Werner Heisenburg)

Isotopes

Atomic number

Mass number

*Please note that the instructions for stations are editable but clip art, special fonts and formatting are not.*

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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:
What is electromagnetic radiation?
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
Radio waves
Microwaves
Infrared
Visible Light
What determines the color of light?
Ultraviolet
X-rays
Gamma Rays
what role does the sun play?

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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:
What is a wave?
Transverse and longitudinal waves
Mechanical vs. electromagnetic waves
Parts of transverse waves
Parts of longitudinal waves
Wavelength
Amplitude
Frequency

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This resource contains a PowerPoint wave properties lesson with Cornell notes style guided notes and an assessment that all tie together. This resource is excellent for traditional and digital interactive science notebooks. The PowerPoint and guided notes are also included in Google Slides which make this a perfect digital resource for online learning! There is also a self-grading Google Forms assessment. This is a no prep resource!

The PowerPoint Lesson and guided notes are 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.
↵ 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.

All links for the Google Slides and Google Forms are included in the resource.

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

Guided Notes:
The Cornell 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 PowerPoint digitally. All the text aside from the title and cover page are editable.

Includes two cover pages for interactive notebook booklets. One in color and one in black and white.

The Google Slides version of the notes includes text boxes for students to add in their own text. A Google Slides “toolbox” is included for students to reference to for changing fonts, adding images, drawings, etc. There are even drag and drop highlighter marks for students to make their notes more interactive.

*There is an included answer key for the guided notes to be easily printed and added to a teacher’s copy of an interactive science notebook.

Assessment:
The assessment contains 20 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 Google Slides version is included as well as a self-grading Google Forms version. The links are included in the resource.

Content covered:
What is a wave?
Transverse and longitudinal waves
Mechanical vs. electromagnetic waves
Parts of transverse waves
Parts of longitudinal waves
Wavelength
Amplitude
Frequency

*Each resource is in PowerPoint format for easy editing.

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The link for Google Forms is available in the resource as well as an answer key.

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 science notebooks.

The text is editable in each task card but the titles and clip art are not editable. The task cards are images in google forms so they are not editable if you are using the digital option.

Content covered:
What is a wave?
Transverse and longitudinal waves
Mechanical vs. electromagnetic waves
Parts of transverse waves
Parts of longitudinal waves
Wavelength
Amplitude
Frequency

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This choice board is editable to suit the needs of you and your students. Students can also submit most of the activities digitally through Google Classroom or Canvas. The title and clip art are not editable.

General teacher directions and the choice board are included in PowerPoint format for easy editing. There are no rubrics included within the resource for their individual choice activities.

2 files included: PowerPoint for easy editing and PDF for printing.

*Only the choice options are editable. Fonts and clip art are not editable due to copyright.*

Options include:
Creating an experiment
Researching earthquakes or echolocation
Designing an experiment
Creating a string wave
Presentation
Creating a guide or brochure
and more!

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

The activities include either drag and drop 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:
Longitudinal vs Transverse waves
Electromagnetic vs mechanical waves
Measuring wavelength and amplitude of transverse waves
Wave speed

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• Properties of Waves Editable PowerPoint Guided Notes and Assessment
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Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. Watch the preview video 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:
Kinetic Theory of Matter
Temperature
heat
Thermal Energy
Transfer of Heat
Conduction
Convection
Radiation.

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