Teacher Guide

Hidden Figures Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Shetterly helped adapt an illustrated young reader's version of her 2016 Hidden Figures book entitled Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race (2018).

For further books portraying girls interested in STEM fields, see: The Case of the Missing Moonstone by Jordan Stratford; Chasing Secrets by Gennifer Choldenko; The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly; The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley; Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell; and The Red Blazer Girls by Michael D. Beil

For biographical books about women in the STEM field, consider: Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women by Catherine Thimmesh; Headstrong: 52...

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