Women in STEM Project for Middle School Science – Women’s History Month

Description

Students will learn about women in STEM with this brochure style project. Perfect for a middle school or high school science class learning about women in stem or celebrating Women’s History Month.

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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