10 International Women’s Day Events and activities for teachers

Written by: on March 3, 2020

International Women’s day is around the corner, and we are psyched!

International Women’s Day is just around the corner, and we are psyched! 

Not only is it a time to celebrate all the amazing achievements of women around the globe (and we don’t do that often enough), but it’s a fab opportunity to in inspire youth.

Below, we have sourced 10 International Women’s Day events and activities for teachers. These picks are versatile and easy to implement from lesson plans to assemblies into a busy teaching schedule!

1. IWD with InnovateHer- Count Her In: Inspiring Tomorrow’s Leaders

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On March 6th, InnovateHer is bringing an exciting mini virtual conference to your classroom to celebrate International Women’s Day.

We will have 3 events running throughout the day for your school to join, you can sign up to them all, or just the ones you can make. Each event is free, and focuses on this years IWD theme of economic empowerment.

Click here to sign up!

2. Women in Education Special Interest Group

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Forging gender equity isn’t limited to women solely fighting the good fight. Allies are incredibly important for the advancement of women.

This session will celebrate the contribution of women, hearing from educators across the world as to how they have lived allyship.

3. Official International Women’s Day school resources

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The official International Women’s Day website features many useful classroom resources for the occasion.

These resources are guaranteed to make a positive difference in the classroom or over the dinner table.

4. Official Oxfam International Women’s Day school resources

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IWD is a day when people around the world come together to recognise the achievements of women and girls and call for more to be done to close the gender gap.

This teaching resource includes an assembly, quiz, activities and games to get young people learning and thinking about gender equality and any action they might like to take in response.

5. Official IWD Resources by Into Film

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The IntoFilm website have a selection of films, film lists, articles, film guides and other resources – including our popular International Women’s Day assembly resources – that highlight strong female characters and important female voices in the film industry.

6. Fabiola Gianotti IWD Assembly Pack

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A high-quality assembly pack to celebrate the physicist Fabiola Gianotti. When growing up, she wanted to be a ballerina but is instead a world-famous scientist who has helped make one of the world’s most important discoveries.

7. Meet an inspiring astronaut, a video by InnovateHer

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Jackie is a particle physicist, mathematician and astronaut in training, currently teaching at Imperial College London.
This interview is part of InnovateHer’s space week series, and looks at Jackie’s journey, resilience, what you need to become an astronaut and what the space industry could offer you!

8. Forces of nature: great women who changed science

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Women have been historically under-represented in physics; progress is happening, but much work is needed. Systemic and cultural barriers still exist. That’s why Perimeter Institute has created the “Forces of Nature” poster series.

Download them. Print them. Share them. Talk about these women. Share their stories.

9. Ava Lovelace, 60-minute lesson plan

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This audio-aided lesson tells the life story of the first computer programmer and ‘The First InnovateHer’, Ada Lovelace. The lesson focuses on vocabulary, listening comprehension, and speaking and includes a short look at “so … that” cause-and-effect structures.

There is also an optional extension activity about the genre of steampunk.

10. Women and girls in science 90-minute lesson plan

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In this lesson, students read an article about why fewer girls and women are interested in working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and what’s happening to encourage equality in these fields.

Students will have a chance to evaluate ways of doing this and read about alternative approaches.

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