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Curated OER

Feel Empowered! Teaching About Female Inventors

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Inspire children to learn and create by teaching the history of female inventors during National Inventors Month.
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Curriculum Corner

African American Inventors

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
Celebrate Black History Month with a packet of materials on African American inventors. Readers discover several inventors' character traits, their inventions, and their lives. They even have the opportunity to conduct further research...
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American Institute of Physics

Eunice Foote: Scientist and Suffragette

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
The greenhouse effect and climate change are hot topics in today's news. Young scientists may be surprised to learn that the concept is not a new one. In fact, Eunice Newton Foote, scientist, inventor, and suffragette, discovered the...
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Curated OER

Women's Achievement Quiz

For Students 7th - 12th
How much do you or your class know about various achievements made by women thorughout history? Here is a set of 10 questions with answers all related to the accomplishments of women in science, politics, civil rights, and law.
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Curated OER

What Is That Thing?

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Could your class identify an old-fashioned can opener? What about a rotary phone, or a VCR? Learners take a look at several gadgets and devices to infer the name and purpose of each item.
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Curated OER

Into the Future

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate how new inventions and technology change how we live.
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Ballard & Tighe

Multiple Choice Masterpiece

For Students 6th - 10th Standards
What a fun way to mix up your traditional multiple-choice quiz on the Renaissance! After completing a learning exercise reviewing significant Renaissance artists and events, your learners will have the opportunity see if tiles that...
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Curated OER

Plants and Animals: Partners in Pollination

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students identify the plant parts and bee structures that are involved in pollination. They simulate pollination in a group activity and process the information.
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 326: Colonial Women Inventors

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides information on two Colonial women inventors. This is a transcript of an accompanying radio broadcast.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Inventive Women Part 1

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will learn about female inventors and their contributions to American technology.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Inventor of the Week: Anna Keichline

For Students 3rd - 8th
At this site from Massachusetts Institute of Technology you can read about inventors, Anna Keichline and Lillian Gilbreth, who sought to make women's lives easier through their household items.
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A&E Television

History.com: 9 Groundbreaking Inventions by Women

For Students 9th - 10th
Women inventors are behind a wide range of key innovations, from Kevlar to dishwashers to better life rafts. Female inventors have played a large role in U.S. history, but haven't always received credit for their work. Women --...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Inventor of the Week: Virginia Apgar

For Students 3rd - 8th
At this site from MIT Invention Dimension you can read about Virginia Apgar and her accomplishments as "One of Columbia University's first female M.D.s," as a researcher of childbirth, and as the inventor of the "Newborn Scoring System."
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Anna Wagner Keichline

For Students 9th - 10th
A biographical look at the life of Anna Wagner Keichline - architect, inventor, suffragist, and World War I Special Agent.
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Handout
Agnes Scott College

Agnes Scott College: Grace Murray Hopper

For Students 9th - 10th
Short biography includes a picture and references.
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Yale University

Yale: The Ada Project: Grace Murray Hopper

For Students 9th - 10th
A concise biography that includes personal as well as professional information.
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Energy for Sustainable Development

Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Pioneers: Gertrude Elion (1918 1999)

For Students 9th - 10th
A profile of Gertrude Belle Elion, an American biochemist and pharmacologist and a Nobel Prize winner. She struggled to find her place in the male-dominated scientific world, and went on to become the first woman to be inducted into the...
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University of California

Princeton University: The Faces of Science: African Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource explores the role of African Americans in science. Past contributions, present activity and future possibilities are all discussed.

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