3.8 Group session – action planning

The aim of this section is to develop a plan for trying out ideas with your pupils. The learning outcomes for pupils are that at the end of the activities they will be able to:

• Understand the concept of STEM capital
• Reflect on how STEM capital relates to gender equality
• Gain familiarity with scientific reasoning, science experiments and STEM based materials

There is one set activity and further suggested outline activities that cover these three learning outcomes and you can download them:

Classroom Activities on STEM capital [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]

Working as a group (or in subgroups each with a note taker) work together to design one or more classroom interventions. In section 3.6 you all selected an activity to look at in more detail in the group. Compare notes on your choices and the questions that you noted for the group.

Discuss. This is an opportunity to share the diverse knowledge and experience that will exist in your group.

Choose one of the options and work together to produce a lesson plan. In producing the plan you should have two priorities in mind:

• What are your intended learning outcomes and how do these contribute to the development of STEM capital?
• How does the lesson plan recognise possibilities of gender bias and how will you structure your role in the activity to avoid this.

You can now go to Section 4: Next steps and developing a whole school approach