Katherine Johnson has a brilliant mathematical mind that helped NASA’s space missions. With the Counting on Katherine activities, students will apply similar math and science concepts that Katherine used in her time at NASA. The math activities included engage students in estimation and measurement. The science activities engage students in force, motion, and velocity. This cross-curricular activity bundle also invites students to work with synthesizing, vocabulary, character analysis, and theme.
As a result of the included activities, students will be able to: 
Activities can be used to differentiate instruction for students, to provide them with a choice, or to focus on a particular skill.
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If you have seen the film Hidden Figures, you are familiar with Katherine Johnson’s work at NASA during the space race. This biography fills in what the movie didn’t cover about her extraordinary mind and life. Her mathematical genius started as a child, and she’s always been curious about calculations and the universe. Katherine was a gifted student in her childhood, and she even calculated the course of the moon landing.
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