Recommended STEM Media

Parents - Please review any media to ensure content is age-appropriate for your child.

Movies

Hidden Figures (2016)

Rating: PG; Grades: 4+

October Sky (1999)

Rating: PG; Grades: 6+

Apollo 13 (1995)

Rating: PG; Grades: 6+

Dream Big: Engineering Our World (2017)

Grades: 2+

Woman in Motion (2019)

Grades: 3+

Journey to Space (2015)

Grades: 3+


YouTube Videos


Books

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky

Grades: 5+ 

Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer by Diane Stanley

Grades: 1+

Little People, BIG DREAMS: Marie Curie by Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Grades: 2+

Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women by Catherine Thimmesh

Grades: 5+

October Sky by Homer Hickam 

Grades: 6+ 

Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels by Linda Skeers

Grades: 3+

Herstory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook Up The World by Katherine Halligan

Grades: 3+

She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History by Chelsea Clinton

Grades: 1+

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt

Grades: 6+


Other Resources