Not exact matches
If
there's one movie that defined my
middle school and high
school life, it was Mean
Girls.
When six
middle -
school girls from Bowling Green, Kentucky, got the wild idea to launch a camera into space, they knew
there would be big challenges ahead.
Based on existing research,
there are three key things
middle level educators can do to encourage more
girls to engage in STEM courses: adopt a growth mindset, provide female role models / mentors from STEM careers, and provide out - of -
school time (OST) programs that are gender specific.
It's been eye - opening to me, as a parent of a two daughters and a former high
school history / geography teacher, how much things change between the elementary grades and the
middle and high
school grades —
there were so many opportunities to come in and help out if my schedule allowed (which it often didn't) and to interact with the teachers when my
girls were in grade
school, but this was completely cutoff by the time they entered 7th grade.
In the
middle of a killing game where everyone is trying to figure out how they ended up in this
school and why,
there is still time for a scene where the boys decide to gather together and spy on the
girls in the bath.
But
there is a time of the day when I do nt know what to do or how to approach to my
middle son JP of 6 years a very stong - willing boy because I know he is kind of challenging me, and the worst thing is that my little
girl is starting to do the same and that time is mealtime, in Mexico we have «lunch» with the family at 2:00 pm when they come back from
school and that is his worst time for JP and even when I try to prevent the explosion cooking his favorite meal, start a conversation about the
school, how was their day and give him a little bit more of the attention I feel he is trying to get, he «sits» on the table and starts saying silly things or calling names to his brother LM 9 (with the one I've always had a hard time «making» him to eat and my attention «was» always on him because he eats just a few things and in a very little portion, he is very thin, etc.etc.