History

Students will learn about Elmer Imes's experimental work on spectroscopy and how it was a turning point in modern applied physics.

Students will learn about how the physicist Elmer Imes' became involved in the civil rights case of Juliette Derricotte and about racial segregation in the 1930s.

Students will learn about different African cultures and the ways that they have understood what we know as the Orion constellation.

Students will learn about different African cultures and the ways that they have understood what we know as the Orion constellation.

Students will learn about the life and career of female astronomers through their own words.

Students will learn about myths and constellations and how different African cultures have understood the stars.

Students will learn about myths and constellations, and how different cultures have used them to understand the natural world.

Students will learn how women at Harvard Observatory coped with the discrimination they faced and partially overcame it to gain recognition for their efforts.

In this lesson plan, students will learn about the history of meteorology and about African American weather forecasters of the Tuskegee Weather Detachment that served in the Air Corps during World War II.

This lesson plan introduces students to the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP).