STEM, Innovations, and Inventions
Black History Month with Books for Black Kids
Black History Month with Books for Black Kids: STEM, Innovations, and Inventions
Today’s edition of “BHM with BFBK” will focus on the scientific and technological innovations spearheaded by Black visionaries. It will also include a few fiction books to inspire the next generation to think creatively, as well as a few guidebooks for educators to foster Black students in STEM fields.
For more books, check out the categories for “STEM,” “Innovations and Inventions,” “Engineering and Mechanics,” “Computers and Digital Media,” “Mathematics and Numbers,” and more in the Books for Black Kids Directory.
📚101 Black Inventors and Their Inventions by Joy James
Also check out A Further 101 Black Inventors and Their Inventions, and Another 101 Black Inventors and Their Inventions
📚Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker
📚The Scientific Life of Azaleah Lane by Nikki Shannon Smith
📚Black Inventors: 15 Inventions that Changed the World by Kathy Trusty
📚Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty
📚A-Z Inventors Who Look Like Me by Hazel Visaka Jay
📚Lewis Howard Latimer (My Early Library: My Itty-Bitty Bio) by Katie Marsico
📚Changing the Equation: 50+ US Black Women in STEM by Tonya Bolden
📚Tiera Fletcher (My Early Library: My Itty-Bitty Bio) by Sara Spiller
📚Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
📚Saving the Day: Garrett Morgan’s Life-Changing Invention of the Traffic Signal by: Karyn Parsons
