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1. Students complete a pre-assignment including an internet search for physicists, reading 2 biographies of historical & modern physicists, and completing a reflection.
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2. CRITICAL COMPONENT: Guidelines for Classroom Discussion are introduced or referenced.
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3. Students participate in an interactive presentation, during which the teacher shares data on women in physics around the world and the class discusses the role of unconscious bias, society & culture.
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4. CRITICAL COMPONENT: Students voluntarily contribute their own experiences with gender bias and synthesize conclusions in a discussion with the entire class.
5. Students come up with strategies to support diversity in physics and are asked to enact the best strategies proposed.
6. Students complete a reflection on their views after the class discussion.
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