🚀 February STEM Adventures
Black History Month Activity Pack
Celebrate Black History Month with a ready-to-use STEM activity pack inspired by the remarkable life and achievements of Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician whose calculations helped make historic space missions possible. Designed for families and educators, this engaging resource blends history, mathematics, and space science to inspire children to dream big, solve problems, and discover how one person's determination can change the world.
🌟 Celebrating Katherine Johnson's Legacy
Katherine Johnson loved numbers and believed that no dream was too big. Her mathematical brilliance helped NASA safely send astronauts into space and return them home. This month's activities encourage children to think like mathematicians, scientists, and engineers while learning about the importance of perseverance, curiosity, and teamwork.
🚀 Inside the Pack
👩🏾🚀 Katherine Johnson biography and timeline activities
➗ Math, measurement, and problem-solving challenges
🌕 Space mission investigations inspired by NASA
📖 STEM journal pages and reflection activities
🌟 Black Innovators in STEM spotlight pages
📝 Printable worksheets, recording sheets, and ready-to-use family and classroom activities
❤️ Why You'll Love It
Children will discover how Katherine Johnson used mathematics to help make space exploration possible while strengthening logical reasoning, measurement, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. They'll also learn about other Black innovators in STEM and be encouraged to imagine their own future as scientists, engineers, mathematicians, or explorers.
⭐ At a Glance
Connects history, mathematics, and space exploration through engaging STEM activities
Celebrates Katherine Johnson and the achievements of Black innovators in STEM
Encourages perseverance, confidence, curiosity, and critical thinking
Strengthens math, measurement, and problem-solving skills
Perfect for home, classrooms, libraries, homeschool, Black History Month programs, and after-school learning
👨👩👧👦 Perfect For
Families • Homeschool Communities • Classrooms • Libraries • Black History Month Programs • STEM Camps • After-School Programs • Reading Clubs
📚 Featured Books
This activity pack pairs perfectly with:
🚀 Blast Off with Dadiso: Science, Secrets, and Surprises on the Moon
🔬 The Science Scoop: Busting Myths About Science
✈️ Colin and the Quest for Quiet Speed: From Takeoff to Supersonic
🌍 Nouria Learns Why NASA Studies the Earth
🌟 Featured Book Spotlight
Blast Off with Dadiso: Science, Secrets, and Surprises on the Moon introduces young readers to NASA's Moon missions and the teamwork behind space exploration. As children learn about astronauts and rockets, this packet helps them discover the mathematicians, scientists, and engineers—like Katherine Johnson—whose work made those missions possible.