Women in STEM

Science | Technology | Engineering | Math

It's never too early to learn science.

(Grades K-2)

Science4Us covers Inquiry, Physical Science, Life Science and Earth & Space Science with 1000’s of online and offline activities that can be completed in as little as ten minutes, and teach students using videos, interaction, poems, songs, and digital notebooks.

Make fractions finally make sense.

Frax is adaptive and game-based, it uses the latest research-based instructional methods to create a better way to learn fractions. The fun challenges, personalized instruction, and motivating rewards help students build their skills and understanding of fractions.

(Grades 3-5)

Adaptive and individualized, Reflex is the most effective system for mastering basic math facts in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Full of games that students love, Reflex takes students at every level and helps them quickly gain math fact fluency and confidence.

When they use Reflex, kids love math.

(Grades 2-6)

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As the inventor of the laserphaco probe used to treat cataracts, Patricia is credited with restoring sight to people who were blind for decades. Students can learn more about eyes and vision here.

Patricia Bath

Photo credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Bath

Raychelle is an Associate Professor of analytical chemistry at American University in Washington, D.C. She developed an interest in forensic science at the age of 12, and her current research centers on developing ways to detect chemicals found in explosives and illicit drugs. Learn more about our forensic science Gizmos here.

Raychelle Burks

Photo credit: https://interactive.wttw.com/playlist/2021/04/13/diversity-in-stem

Nadine is the first Canadian female general surgeon of First Nations descent and is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of British Columbia. Nadine works to highlight and improve the needs of northern, rural, and indigenous Canadians. Students can learn how to use scalpels, forceps, and other surgical instruments here.

Nadine Caron

Photo credit: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/nadine-caron

A biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize with her husband for their work on discovering the '”Cori cycle,” their work helped us to understand diabetes. Students can help their own patient suffering from diabetes here. 

Gerty Cori

Photo credit: https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_69.html

She is known as the first female engineer and an expert in equivalent circuits and graphical analysis. Students can build their own circuits here.

Edith Clarke

Photo credit: https://interestingengineering.com/edith-clarke-the-first-female-electrical-engineer-and-professor-of-electrical-engineering

Jennifer and Emmanuelle were the first women to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, sharing the prize in 2020 for their development of a tool that helps researchers change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extremely high precision, which can help eliminate diseases, create hardier plants, and wipe out pathogens. Students can learn about genetic changes in meiosis here. 

Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier

Photo credit: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02765-9

Kizzmekia Corbett is an American viral immunologist and an assistant professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard. Prior to joining Harvard, she was a senior research fellow at the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.  Appointed to the VRC in 2014, Kizzmekia played an integral role in the development of the COVID-19 vaccine. Learn more about how viruses can spread here.

Kizzmekia Corbett

Photo credit: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/profile/kizzmekia-s-corbett/

A space scientist and mathematician, Katherine is a leading figure in American space history and has made enormous contributions to America’s aeronautics and space programs by her incorporation of computing tools. Learn more about her specialty, geometry, here.

Katherine Johnson

Photo credit: https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/who-was-katherine-johnson-k4

She is considered a pioneer in corn genetics. She discovered transposons but wasn't believed until 20 years later. She received the Nobel Prize 30 years after her discovery! Students can genetically engineer their own corn here.

Barbara McClintock 

Photo credit: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Barbara-McClintock

In 1993, Ellen became the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. She also served as the first Hispanic director and second female director of the Johnson Space Center. Learn more about space here. 

Ellen Ochoa

Photo credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Ochoa#/media/File:Ellen_Ochoa.jpg

She changed how we study embryos and cytogenetics today. Nettie discovered that sex is determined by 'X' and 'Y' chromosomes. Students can make their own discoveries in human chromosomes here.

Nettie Stevens

Photo credit: https://broadsyoushouldknow.com/nettie-stevens/

As a key scientist in the discovery of the Higgs Boson, Sau Lan Wu has made a significant impact in the world of particle physics. She continues to research what makes up the universe and your students can too here.

Sau Lan Wu

Photo credit: https://quanthep-seminar.org/speaker/sau-lan-wu/

Considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Jane spent 60 years studying the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees. She first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania in 1960, where she witnessed human-like behaviors among chimpanzees. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and was named a UN Messenger of Peace in 2002. Students can study animal behavior here.

Jane Goodall

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Tiera attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and graduated in June 2017 with a GPA of 5.0, which is perfect+extra credit. While in college, Tiera was an intern at Boeing and is now one of the designers and structural analysts building the Space Launch System for NASA, which is set to send people to Mars. Students can program their own space rover here.

Tiera Guinn Fletcher

Photo credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiera_Guinn_Fletcher#/media/File:Tiera_Fletcher_Guinn.jpg