It’s Child’s Play – developed by the National Union of Teachers, this booklet challenges gender stereotypes through reading. It identifies 7 books, with something for every level, that challenge gender stereotypes and gives suggested points to talk about with your class.
Improving Gender Balance Scotland – An Action Guide for Primary Schools – developed by Skills Development Scotland, Education Scotland and The Institute of Physics. A quick read with some very practical, and easy to implement, ideas.
Just Like a Child is a very useful document from Zero Tolerance. It looks at challenging gender sterotyping in the early years with useful suggestions for teachers and EY practitioners.
Girls Make Games – an American organisation that runs Gaming Camps and Programmes for girls, but is developing a portal that allows you to access online videos and tutorials for girls (boys too!) to learn game development skills. There vision is to address the fact that 47% of women are gamers, but women make up only 12% of the game industry; an industry set to be worth globally $143.5 billion by 2020.
A brief history of women in science – share this infographic from the Science & Technology Facilities Council showing that women have made major contributions to STEM since 2700BC.
Computing Science – Gender lesson plans – Resources and activities – 20 Broad General Education lesson plans focus on the creative and collaborative aspects of computational thinking, programming and coding, building girls confidence and resilience by embedding these concepts through interdisciplinary learning into Literacy & English, health and wellbeing, mathematics, sciences, art & design, music, social subjects and physical education.
National Improvement Hub – Links to research and resources to help practitioners identify and tackle issues of gender stereotyping in their classrooms and schools, particularly in relation to STEM subjects
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