Collaboration with Religion Department

Lina is a great partner. She's eager to try new things and she appreciates having a partner when it comes to implementing technology into her curriculum. Together we came up with a mini research project for her Feminism and Christianity class. Lina was interested in having her students study the way women saints brought change to the Church of their day. She was also interested in having the students look at women leaders today. We thought it would be interesting to compare both historical context and messages of women leaders (saints) of the past and of today.

We did a general research lesson and we created a matrix for students to complete with their research. After groups compared their research, they came up with thesis statements comparing the women leaders from two times. In addition to the thesis statements, the students made PowerPoint presentations incorporating their research. The students spent one day in the library and I visited their classroom another class period to answer research questions and another period to see the final presentations.