The investigative lesson plan traces major exercises from an early residency, Touching Outside the Walls, as a teaching artist to incarcerated women through Art Spring Organization, the process of building original pedagogy with the women that culminated in a public performance.

Discusses the lives of six women from different temporal periods who have made significant contributions to the biological sciences. (ZWH)

Describes a course that focuses on the struggles of women through the centuries to get education, and how much women in the United States have achieved in the last 100 years. Contains 58 references. (ASK)

Describes a mini-educational program at Montana State University (MSU) designed to encourage adult women to enter or return to higher education. The program was a joint effort between MSU and the local branch of the American Association of University Women. Presents the results, lessons learned, and areas for further work. (Contains 12…

Describes how a teacher teaches a Virginia Woolf book at the beginning of a course in women's literature so that it can serve as a touchstone for later reading and writing. (JL)

Describes the science program, Science Community Year, that focuses on the improvement of science learning of all students by creating a learning community within the college. Discusses program cost, effectiveness, design, and student perceptions. (ZWH)

This National Center for Education Research (NCER) Practice Guide is the second in a series of IES guides in education. The goal of this practice guide is to formulate specific and coherent evidence-based recommendations that educators can use to encourage girls in the fields of math and science. The target audience is teachers and other school…

Winning the 1985 "Media and Women" Course Outline Contest awarded by the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press, this course syllabus covers a semester-long interdisciplinary course on Japanese women and feminism as they are portrayed in the media and through the study of bibliographic references relevant to the topic. Objectives…

Addresses how to attract more college women into the sciences. Attracting Women into Sciences (AIM) is a comprehensive approach that begins with advising, advertising, and ambiguity. The advising process includes dispelling stereotypes and reviewing the options open to a female basic science major. Interaction, involvement and instruction, finding…

Provides insights regarding women students in physics. Also discusses how an external organization, the American Physical Society, acted as a catalyst for enhancing science education for women. (ZWH)

EQUALS is a teacher advisory program that helps elementary and secondary educators acquire methods and materials to attract minority and female students to mathematics. The program supports a problem-solving approach to mathematics, including having students working in groups, using active assessment methods, and incorporating a broad mathematics…

Offers selected resources that educators can use to increase their knowledge of ways to help girls and young women succeed in mathematics, integrate information into classroom instruction, and bring self-help opportunities to their female students' awareness. (KHR)

This guide offers activities for teachers as well as community program planners that enhance the awareness of women's history and women's contributions to history. Although National Women's History Month is celebrated in March, programs need not be limited to that time period. The programs have been organized into three sections. The first section…

This facilitator's guide and participant packet were designed to teach women how the U.S. economic system works and were developed by a coalition of more than 40 national religious groups working toward economic justice for women. The facilitator's guide consists of a section explaining the coalition, a section on the development of the materials…

Discusses gender-equity issues in science and engineering classrooms. Emily Wadsworth, assistant director of Women in Engineering Programs at Purdue University, developed Classroom Climate Workshops to act out scenarios that highlight gender inequality and encourage females to remain in these disciplines. (AIM)