Recommended STEM Media
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+
Books
October Sky
Homer Hickam
(Originally published as Rocket Boys)
Grades: 6+
Little People, BIG DREAMS: Marie Curie
Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Grades: 2+
Herstory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook Up The World
Katherine Halligan
Grades: 3+
She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History
Chelsea Clinton
Grades: 1+
Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels
Linda Skeers
Grades: 3+
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women
Catherine Thimmesh
Grades: 5+
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
Nathalia Holt
Grades: 6+