Don’t shortchange your students; believe they can do investigative problem solving and assign open-ended projects.
“Encourage girls to suggest different approaches to solving a problem” instead of intervening and trying to rescue them.
When students are working on projects, especially open-ended ones, resist the urge to intervene. Don’t do the job for them!
Start designing class activities by creating goals for what the students should learn from a particular activity. Ask yourself, “why would kids need to know this?”
SciGirls Seven tip: “Girls benefit from collaboration, especially when they can participate and communicate fairly.”
Make sure students understand that collaboration is important, and make collaboration easier by having students play an icebreaker after groups are assigned