Equity and Inclusion is one of the four transformative practices that Million Girls Moonshot aims to highlight each month. Explore these resources to add to your classroom:

Broadening Perspectives in Broadening Participation in STEM toolkit, developed by CAISE

To help informal STEM education and science communication groups reflect on and strengthen their efforts to broaden participation in STEM, CAISE’s Broadening Participation in STEM Task Force has developed a suite of professional development tools. Use these resources, including the toolkit, to plan and lead reflective discussions about current practices, with an eye to developing goals, strategies, and priorities that can make your ISE and science communication work more inclusive.

Role Model Profile Videos and Photos

For Programs: The following assets can be used in your programs as you celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month: 

Myria Perez Role Model Resources:

• Myria Perez Long Profile, Myria Perez Fieldshot, and Myria Perez STEM Journey
• Video: Digging Up Fossils Science Experiment with Paleontologist Myria Perez

Afterschool site staff: you are invited to participate in pilot-testing a survey that will be administered in fall 2021, 2022, and 2023 to California afterschool programs. Grant managers, program directors, and site coordinators are also welcome to join in.

SRI Education is conducting a research study, CI-STEM, that is collecting large-scale data on continuous quality improvement practices and on STEAM afterschool programming. The survey results will show how continuous quality improvement and STEAM are handled statewide and will inform quality improvement in expanded learning programs. Pilot-testing the survey helps ensure that it uses accurate and clear language and is relevant to afterschool programs. Please consider helping with the survey pilot so that the results of the survey will be useful to you and your colleagues.

Artificial intelligence can be fun, hands-on, and connected to real life, even for kids. In this training for educators of upper elementary or middle school students, Technovation will showcase their Curiosity Machine artificial intelligence lessons.

With these free lessons, help your students learn, play and create solutions to real-world problems with Al. Learn what Al is, how it works, and how your students can use it to solve a problem they care about through our 10-lesson challenge. This is a great program for educators with and without STEM backgrounds!

Check out these activities that Million Girls Moonshot is sharing this month:

• Student Design Activities: NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids – Activities include an art challenge, Color Your Universe, and How Far Away is the Moon?
• Student Design Activity: Education at home | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (noaa.gov) – Citizen science, hands-on activities, mobile resources and more.  STEM at  your fingertips teaches about climate, weather, more.