Hypatia Toolkit for Schools: Gender-Inclusive STEM Education

Hypatia Toolkit for Schools: Gender-Inclusive STEM Education

Gender inclusion, STEM education, stereotypes, careers and inclusive facilitation

A ready-to-use toolkit for teenagers containing practical modules for schools, including activities such as identifying gender stereotypes in STEM representations, improving gender inclusiveness in science teaching, debates, STEM role-model activities and the STEM Women Cooperative Card Game. Each module includes activity guidance, gender-inclusion guidance and facilitation advice. Available in English and Dutch.

Hypatia project consortium; developed by participating science centres and museums with gender experts, teachers, researchers, industry representatives and teenagers

Hypatia Horizon 2020 project

Hypatia consortium; disseminated through European gender/STEM resource platforms including European Schoolnet-hosted resources

2017-2018

NEMO Science Museum; Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci; Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem; Experimentarium; Universcience and wider Hypatia partners

The Hypatia complete modular toolkit was released under a Creative Commons licence. The exact Creative Commons variant should be checked on the individual downloaded module before redistribution.

Usage Rights: Free to access and use for education. Link to the original resource, and verify the licence displayed in the selected module before adapting or re-uploading it.

Hypatia H2020 project, Grant Agreement 665566; Scientix and European gender-inclusive STEM initiatives

Toolkit / PDF / modular classroom activities and facilitation guidance

English and Dutch versions verified

Toolkit / teacher guide / classroom activity collection

Europe; teenagers, schools, science centres, museums, research institutions and industry