DO NOW **SILENT** 5 minutes 1. On your notes - write down the definitions of the following: ACCOUNTABILITY GRIT 2. What is the best advice/quote you have ever been given. 3. If you had to choose a science- related job in the future, what would you choose? End

Announcements Passing back papers = RT Clean desks after school = 3 RT’s Shout out board Encouragement Quotes

OBJECTIVE SWBAT feel empowered and competent to pursue a STEM related career if they so choose.

STEM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS

Turn to your partner (2 min) If you had to choose a STEM career – what would you choose and why? End

A higher per GDP means a more efficient economy - fewer people making more goods, services, investments, etc. Higher efficiency is always better. *EFFICIENT - working in a well-organized and competent way.

Outsourcing - to buy labor or parts from a source outside a company, OR nation in this context Brain Drain - the movement of highly skilled people, especially scientists and technical workers, to a country offering better opportunities

Think, Pair, Share… Do any of these statistics concern you? What do these statistics mean to you? Why is this happening? Moment of obligation for anyone?

TOP REASONS TO CONSIDER STEM Cross-Marketability of Skills HIGH PAY JOB AVAILABILITY Even if your studies become outdated, your abilities and method of learning more will not. LESS COMPETITION SMALLER CLASSES = MORE RESOURCES EVERYDAY CRITICAL THINKING

Your Turn Turn to the person sitting next to you and discuss why you do OR do not want to consider a job in a STEM field.

Growing Roses in Concrete How bad do you want it?

Growing Roses in Concrete You try to plant somethin’ in the concrete, If it GROWS, and the rose petal got all kind of scratches and marks, you not gon' say, "look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from concrete" You gon' be like, "A rose grew from the concrete?!" Same thing with me, you know? I grew out of all of this Instead of sayin, "Wow, he did this, he did this," just be like, "Wow! He grew out of that!? He came out of that!?" That's what they should say, y'knowhatImean? All the trouble to survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle they gave me I'm just tryin to make somethin..

When no one even cared The rose it grew from concrete Keepin all these dreams Provin nature's laws wrong It learned how to walk without having feet It came from concrete You see you wouldn't ask why the rose that grew from the concrete had damaged petals. On the contrary, we would all celebrate its tenacity. We would all love it's will to reach the sun. Well, we are the rose - this is the concrete - and these are my damaged petals. Don't ask me why, ask me how! -Tupac Shakur

Final Five - XT2

FINAL FIVE Are you considering a job in a STEM field? If yes – which job and why? If no – pick a STEM job that MIGHT be interesting to you and tell me why you might want to do this. What did Tupac mean by “growing roses in concrete”?