Black History Month -- School-age
Black History Month
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver (1865?-1943) - Scientist, Botanist, educator, and inventor.
“I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me." - George Washington Carver
Mini Books
George Washington Carver Little Book Brief biography of George Washington Carver and put together a lift-tab book.
Video
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks (1913-2005) on December 21, 1956 refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her defiance sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free." - Rosa Parks
Katherine G. Johnson
Katherine G. Johnson (1918- ) - Physicist and mathematician.
“I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed … anything that could be counted, I did." - Katherine G. Johnson
Worksheet
Small biography of Katherine G. Johnson. Find the answer to the questions by solving the math problems.
Sites to See
NASA - Katherine G. Johnson NASA History
NASA -Katherine Johnson Biography.
NASA - Katherine Johnson: A Lifetime of STEM
Biography - Katherine G. Johnson
History - Human Computers: The Women of NASA
Recommended Books
Nasa Mathematician Katherine Johnson (STEM Trailblazer Bios)
by Heather E. Schwartz
Video
Recommended Book
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read
by Rita Lorraine Hubbard
Mary Walker achieved an incredible feat, she learned to read at 116 years old. Mary was born a slave in Union Springs, Alabama in 1848. She became free at the age of 15 following the passing of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
Mary worked hard and long hours. During her whole life Mary longed to learn to read, but never had the time or the opportunity.
At the age of 114 Mary had outlived not only two husbands but all of her three children. One day she notice a reading class being offered in her building, she joined the class and "“put everything she had into learning to read.” Mary would learn to read and was fond of saying"You're never to old to learn." A truly inspirational story with tapestry like illustrates about the main events of Mary’s life.
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