The WHY for Her-Story Project
The WHY for Her-Story Project
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During the month of March, we celebrate brave, strong, determined, intelligent and creative women who have contributed to and have spear-headed amazing accomplishments in their lifetimes. In 1987 after being petitioned by the National Women's History Project, Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 which designated the month of March as “Women's History Month.” These proclamations celebrate the contributions women have made to the United States and recognize the specific achievements women have made over the course of American history in a variety of fields. (Library of Congress, 2021).
Every woman has a story to tell, as to leave her legacy of good in our world. So let’s get ready to join in on this momentous celebration, to discover and honor strong and creative women leaders in our communities. These women influencers and role models will guide our future generations of young female future leaders through Her-Story global collaboration project experiences.
I am hoping you will join me on this celebration of learning with your students, and join the “Her-Story” Global Collaboration Project” to celebrate National Women’s History during the month of March!
Project Details
Project Details
The “Her- Story” Global Collaboration Project is an opportunity for you to guide your students with identifying and interviewing a women leader of influence in your community or a family member, and then create a celebratory multimedia presentation or video documentary biography project about this women leader. The learning outcome of the “Her-Story” video documentary is to provide a powerful learning experience for your students to empathize with these women leaders of the how/why they have overcome career-work-life challenges, as they preserved to achieve their lifetime dreams either in the STEM, CS or a particular interesting career field.
Students will also gain new perspectives of how the slightest details of the interviewed stories may uncover and contribute to “hidden” factors of possible social injustice learning moments. Yet these interesting details will also tell an incredible story of the how and why these women continued to pursue to make change in their communities, and/or to influence future generations of young women to now have access and equity to new learning resources, and career advancements by their dedicated influence.
Students will:
Identify a local community woman leader to video or audio interview and make a request to interview them.
Curate a list of interview questions to use when interviewing women leaders.
Capture the authenticity of the sequenced ``Her-Story” storyline from the interviewee’s perspective, by taking notes and storyboarding.
Utilize audio, video and photos, to capture the emotional tone of the story.
Create a 2-3 minute multimedia presentation or video documentary biography project.
Publish the final “Her-Story” multimedia presentation or video documentary through the "Final Projects by School" webpage.
Participate in up to 10 enrichment activities to compliment the main video documentary project, and 25 bonus choice activities to further excite girls and young women's interest in STEM and Computer Science to pursue their learning passions
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