Term

Spring 2023

Capstone

Capstone Project

Degree Name

MAT

Facilitator(s)

Maggie Struck

Content Expert

Mary Sande

Abstract

This capstone is titled “Helping Female and Nonbinary Identifying Students Grow Confidence in the Science Classroom”. The focus is on finding and sharing resources that will help girls and nonbinary students feel encouraged, interested, and motivated to pursue studying STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields and careers. This topic is influenced by the author’s experience as a female student studying science in school, as someone with two science teacher parents, and as a female high school science teacher. First hand experience influenced this topic greatly. A literature review was conducted to research what has been done to improve this gender gap. Effective strategies for encouraging girls in STEM were researched. The information collected in the literature review was used to guide the development of a website, free for educators. This website includes various free resources for teachers to use to help encourage their female and non-binary identifying students to pursue STEM fields. It links sources that include role models, hands-on activities, and research into STEM careers and workers. Many resources that were found were focused on providing students with role models in STEM fields. A lack of resources to help encourage LGBTQ+ students in STEM fields was evident during development of the website, and more research is needed in this area.

Project Type

Website Creation

Keywords

Curriculum, Gender, Science, Teachers/ Teaching

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text

dc_publisher

DigitalCommons@Hamline

dc_format

application/pdf

dc_source

School of Education Student Capstone Projects

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