The aim of this game is to check the prejudice students or teachers may hold about working in STEAM; the way students/or teachers see/feel or even experience problems in STEAM fields due to their gender and most important have a discussion about these issues.

TYPE OF THE ACTIVITY

Game and Discussion;

DURATION:

For a group of 10 people – not more than 50 min;

TEACHING AID:

A box, pencils or pens, and small pieces of paper to write on;

A Presentation with questions for discussion (added additionally) –> The Presentation (pdf).

TEACHING PRACTICE (STEP BY STEP):

FIRST PART: 

1. Prepare small papers and divide them to students;
2. Give instructions to students to write down the problems that any person: a man or a woman working in the STEAM field could meet. One paper – one problem. Let them write as many papers as they want; 
3. All the papers should go to the box; 

SECOND PART: 

1. Give instructions to the students to draw out a piece of paper from the box; 
2. Encourage students to elaborate on the solutions to the problems they drew; 

THIRD PART:

1. Held a discussion. Questions for the discussion are added in an additional file. One of the most important questions: which gender do you think would face this problem more and why?

MATERIAL:

Download/print this plan for the activity (pdf).

The presentation (pdf).

SOURCE:

The frame of the activity is taken from the project publication “Challenged Erasmus+ Youth Project. Metodika su jaunimu dirbantiems asmenims. Išūkių valdymas nuo problemos iki iššūkio “, 2022.