[email protected]CyberScience- Infusing Gender and Disability into Sci-HighEd Funding provided Women's Educational Equity Act, U.S. Department of Education PR Award # S083B000003 Disabled Women's Alliance/ San Francisco Women's Centers, Inc. PO Box 6008, Albany, CA 94706 USA 510-528-2206 [email protected]Http://www.disabilityhistory.org/edge
14
Embed
[email protected] CyberScience- Infusing Gender and Disability into Sci-HighEd Funding provided Women's Educational Equity Act, U.S. Department of Education.
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
CyberScience- Infusing Gender and Disability into Sci-HighEd
Funding provided Women's Educational Equity Act, U.S. Department of Education PR Award # S083B000003
Disabled Women's Alliance/ San Francisco Women's Centers, Inc.PO Box 6008, Albany, CA 94706 USA 510-528-2206 [email protected]://www.disabilityhistory.org/edge
Self-paced, self-directed lessons
Two lessons will be in the sciences & two in the humanities. The science lessons are Physics and Biology but are hyperlinked to relevant humanities information.
To achieve project goals the internet is the venue for learning.
Participatory methodology was used to develop the lesson plans and student and adult focus group participants will assess and advise about refinements.
Physics lesson will look at force, energy, gravity and torque. Using wheelchairs and men and women wheelchair users, students can design a chair and test its advantages and disadvantages. Students will also meet two wheelchair designers- one man and one woman, and be introduced to two athletes who became disabled and now use wheelchairs.
Lumbar, Thoracic and Cervical spinal cord injuries impact people differently. Two men and two women with spinal cord injuries are profiled, including two wheelchair designers and two former athletes.
Gender and disability factors are discussed in each section.