Career Maps

All Levels

Narrative

Provides an opportunity for in-depth discussion about career choices and what it takes to get from life as a student to a professional position.

	Objectives Develop personal and educational empowerment skills for young women. Develop sensitivities for students of both genders to career options decision-making for girls and women Increase awareness of possible careers and career paths in the STEM professions. Develop STEM career understanding and options from the vantage points of several young women followed in the film. Materials Needed The Gender Chip (film) List of Women Scientists Paper, pencils, ruler or yardstick, for constructing timelines Internet access for list of colleges and university programs List of high school requirements List of entrance requirements for local and national colleges & universities

Guided Experience

Variation on Career Choices exercise, where students make maps (visual representations of the pathway) to achieve success in science, math, technology careers. Useful discussion can be made about the choices of careers and the patterns and visual representations. Suggest that after viewing the film, The Gender Chip Project discussion questions probe for examination of the career paths of each of the young college women. These maps might also include the high school course sequence in mathematics for entry into college at a level of competing for application to science careers. Career maps are displayed on the classroom wall.