Diversity in STEM School Year Calendar 2020-2021

2020 - 2021 School Year Calendar CELEBRATE DIVERSITY IN STEM! CELEBRATE DIVERSITY IN STEM WITH YOUR STUDENTS!

Welcome to First Book’s 3rd annual calendar to help you celebrate culture, diversity, and inclusion all year long! For the 2020-2021 school year, First Book and the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) are partnering together to introduce educators and students to pioneers in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

In the U.S., careers in STEM are becoming increasingly integral to our society. From artificial intelligence and space flight, to medical advances and ocean exploration, opportunities in STEM give students new and exciting ways to think about their talents, interests, and future careers.

In this calendar, you’ll see month-long observances, religious observances, and dates with cultural, historical, or inclusive significance in STEM fields.e W intentionally worked to celebrate people from marginalized communities, whose ingenuity, perseverance and talents are not always known, but whose impact has been meaningful and transformative. We encourage you and your students to learn more about the people and events that inspire you. Be sure to visit www.fbmarketplace.org/free-resources for more resources to help you celebrate culture, diversity, and inclusion all year long with your students!

Please note: For each date which features notable figures, you’ll see either a (b), which indicates this is their date of birth, or an (m), indicating this date marks an innovative milestone related to this individual and their achievements.

Aerospace Industries Association www.aia-aerospace.org @RocketContest @RocketContest @AIAspeaks Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday AUGUST 1 On August 14th, we celebrate National Navajo Code Talkers Day. During World War II, recruits from the Navajo Nation created the Navajo code language for the U.S. military. This was used to communicate secret messages and helped the U.S. win key battles. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

The Navajo Nation is located in the José M. Hernández (b), a Mexican American Southwestern United States and extends NASA astronaut and electrical engineer, flew into Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. to the International Space Navajo Nation land is home to more than Station in 2009 and spent over 14 days in space. 250,000 people.

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 E. Margaret Burbidge (b) TRY THIS! International Day Frances “Poppy” In 2014, Maryam was an astrophysicist, Northcutt (b) was NASA’s Mirzakhani (m), an Bon Festival of the World’s who made pathbreaking first female mission Iranian mathematician, (13th - 15th) First Book provides thousands of findings about the state National Navajo Indigenous People control engineer. In this won the Fields Medal of the cosmos. She was is a Japanese Buddhist is a day to protect and role, she ensured the – the most prestigious Code Talkers Day books and resources focused on the first woman to serve custom that honors the promote the rights of Apollo 13 astronauts award in mathematics as director of the Royal See sidebar spirits of one’s ancestors diverse cultures. Learn more about the world’s Indigenous returned safely from their – for her innovative Observatory and received for details. and has been celebrated people and share in their trip to the moon. On the contributions towards the National Medal of for over 500 years. Indigenous cultures and people in the mission for acceptance moon, “Crater Poppy” geometry. is named after her. Science in 1985. United States in the Native American and recognition. Characters and Cultures section of 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 1 the First Book Marketplace. Margaret Hamilton (b) Islamic New Year is a computer scientist (19th - 20th) and one of the scientists is celebrated on the first who coined the term, day of the Muharram, the “software engineering.” first month of the Islamic She received the calendar. Islam is the Presidential Medal of DID YOU KNOW? world’s second-largest Freedom for her work on religious group with over the Apollo 11 space flight. NASA stands for the National 1.8 billion followers.* Aeronautics and Space 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Administration. In its 62-year history, Katherine Johnson (b) Ola M. Rexroat (b) was was one of the first the only Indigenous 355 individual astronauts have flown African American women woman to serve as a to work as a NASA member of the Women’s on the space shuttle, including 306 scientist. Her story is Airforce Service Pilots men (86%) and 49 women (14%) 30 31 told in the book and film, during WWII. The airfield Hidden Figures. She is a operations building at from 16 different countries. recipient of many awards, Ellsworth Air Force Base including the Presidential in South Dakota was Medal of Freedom. named after her. 1 www.fbmarketplace.org/native-american-interest *Note: Islamic holidays follow the lunar calendar and therefore do not fall on the same dates each year. Students practicing this faith may be absent on these holidays.

For this calendar and more free resources, visit www.fbmarketplace.org/free-resources. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday SEPTEMBER 1 2 3 4 5 HISPANIC Registration opens for This month, we celebrate National the American Rocketry KINSHIP Challenge! Middle and Aerospace Week (September 14 - 18). HERITAGE high school students CARE can design, build and Since 2010, the third week of September MONTH launch model rockets and (September 15 - gain experience solving celebrates the aerospace and defense MONTH engineering problems. October 15) Learn more at industry in the U.S. The industry rocketcontest.org. includes companies that make airplanes, satellites, spaceships (yes, spaceships!), 6 Labor Day 7 8 9 10 11 12 Cornelius Coffey (b) was Dr. Christine Darden tanks, and more. Make time this month an African American (b) was the first African Dr. Mae Jemison (m) is aviator. In the 1930s, American woman to be an engineer, physician, to learn more about the interesting STEM he and his wife, Willa promoted to the Senior and former NASA Brown, founded the first Executive Service astronaut. She became fields related to aerospace. flight school for Black at NASA’s Langley the first Black woman to Americans in the U.S. He Research Center. She is travel into space in 1992 trained many Black pilots, one of the researchers aboard the Space including many of the featured in the book and Shuttle Endeavour. TRY THIS! Tuskegee airmen. film,Hidden Figures. Visit First Book’s Space section to 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 help students learn more about the Mexican Welcoming Week National Independence Day Rosh Hashanah (12th - 20th) exciting field of aerospace and the Aerospace Week honors priest Miguel (18th - 20th) universe beyond our planet.1 Ensure all students & (14th - 18th) Hidalgo, who in 1810 The Jewish New Year families, no matter their encouraged people begins at sundown on birth place, background September 18th. It marks See sidebar to revolt against the or demographic, feel the first of the Jewish for details. Spanish regime. Mexico’s valued in your classroom/ independence from Spain High Holidays.* program community. DID YOU KNOW? was secured in 1821. 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Christina Koch, an astronaut and Dorothy Vaughan (b) International was an African American National Voter native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, mathematician who Week of the Deaf Registration Day made many contributions In 1934, Leah Hing (b) (20th - 26th) This day encourages spent 328 consecutive days in space. to America’s space became the first Chinese Launched in 1958, this U.S. voter registration exploration. Her career American woman to earn week highlights the across all communities From March 14, 2019 to February 6, is profiled in the book, her pilot’s license. cultural contributions of and promotes awareness Hidden Figures, and the 2020 she lived in the International members of the deaf of upcoming local, state Vaughan Crater on the community and promotes and national elections. moon is named after her. Space Station (ISS). The ISS is about human rights. the length of a football field and travels 27 28 29 30 around Earth at a speed of 17,500 miles per hour (that’s 5 miles per ATTENDANCE second!). AWARENESS 1 www.fbmarketplace.org/space MONTH

*Note: Jewish holidays follow the lunar calendar and therefore do not fall on the same dates each year. Students practicing this faith may be absent on these holidays.

For this calendar and more free resources, visit www.fbmarketplace.org/free-resources. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday OCTOBER 1 2 3 Dr. Robert Henry HISPANIC In 1847, astronomer Lawrence Jr. (b) was a Hispanic Heritage Month celebrates LEARNING NATIONAL Maria Mitchell, (m) U.S. Airforce Officer and LGBT HERITAGE discovered the comet, in June 1967, he became the rich, diverse culture and DISABILITIES BULLYING 1847 VI. She won a the first African American HISTORY MONTH gold medal prize for her astronaut. He earned accomplishments of Hispanic and Latinx AWARENESS PREVENTION discovery, which was many awards in his brief MONTH (September 15 - presented by the King of career and one of the individuals. All year long, “introduce” MONTH MONTH Denmark in 1848. The Northrop Grumman’s NG- October 15) comet was renamed, 13 Cygnus spacecrafts is kids to contemporary artistic pioneers “Miss Mitchell’s Comet.” named in his honor. like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Puerto Rican creator of hit Broadway musicals 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Teach Central Born in 1895, Eugene World Mental Hamilton and In the Heights, and Jacques Bullard (b) America Week became the world’s first Health Day inspiring innovators like Diana Trujillo, In 1942, Beverly Loraine (5th - 11th) Black fighter pilot. Born is a day to recognize Greene (b) became the in the U.S. but unable the importance of our Today, more than a Colombian aerospace engineer first Black woman in to serve in the military mental health and learn 4 million Central the U.S. to be licensed because of his skin color, more about how we who leads the Mars Curiosity and Americans reside in as an architect. he became a famous can protect, preserve the U.S. This week pilot in France during and treat mental Perseverance rovers, car-sized robots celebrates the region. World War I. health illnesses. designed to explore the planet Mars! Indigenous 11 Peoples’ Day 12 13 14 15 16 17 National Ahmed Hassan Zewail World Food Day (b) was an Egyptian TRY THIS! Ada Lovelace Day celebrates the founding Coming Out Day chemist known celebrates women in of the Food and supports members of as the “Father of STEM by honoring Agriculture Organization the LGBTQ community Femtochemistry.” He Visit First Book’s Latinx Characters the 19th century of the United Nations in in sharing their sexuality won the Nobel Prize in mathematician, who 1945. It calls attention and Cultures section for a mix of with their friends, family Chemistry in 1999 and is known as the first to food insecurity, world and the world, promoting became the first Egyptian computer programmer. hunger and sustainable Spanish and Latinx resources that openness and equality. to win a Nobel Prize harvesting. reflect and celebrate Latinx culture in a scientific field. and heritage.1 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Mix It Up At Lunch Day United Nations Day is an international DID YOU KNOW? campaign that is devoted to raising encourages students to awareness of the goals move out of their comfort and achievements The process to become a pilot is zone and connect with of the U.N. quite straightforward. First, you must someone new over lunch. decide what type of aircraft you 25 26 27 28 29 30 Halloween 31 want to fly. You can choose from airplanes, helicopters, hot air balloons Eid Milad Un Nabi and more. Next, you’ll need to get (28th - 29th) is the Muslim holiday a physical to ensure you’re healthy. marking the birth of Muhammad. It is Then, you enroll in a flight school or celebrated from hire an instructor to teach you how to sundown to sundown.* fly. What’s next is practice, practice, practice! *Note: Islamic holidays follow the lunar calendar and therefore do not fall on the same dates each year. Students practicing this faith may be absent on these holidays.

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For this calendar and more free resources, visit www.fbmarketplace.org/free-resources. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday NOVEMBER 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 In 1981, Dr. Alexa Día de los Muertos/ Dr. Patricia Bath (b) Canady (b) became the This month, we celebrate STEM/STEAM Jeffery A. Hoffman (b) was a Black American first American woman Day of the Dead is NASA’s first Jewish ophthalmologist, inventor and first Black person to Day! This day is designed to inspire (31st - November 2nd) astronaut. He has made and humanitarian. She become a neurosurgeon. was an early pioneer of is a Mexican holiday that five flights as a Space She specialized in kids and adults to explore and pursue laser cataract surgery honors friends and family Shuttle astronaut and has pediatric neurosurgery and the first Black woman members who have died, logged more than 21.5 and served as chief of their interests in science, technology, doctor to receive a patent remembering them with million miles in space! neurosurgery at the for a medical purpose. engineering, art and math. With careers celebrations and prayers. Children’s Hospital in Michigan for 14 years. in STEM/STEAM expected to grow 70% faster than other occupations, this is 8 9 10 Veterans Day 11 12 13 14 Hedy Lamarr (b) was Hon. Coral Wong Pietsch Dr. Pablo Gabriel de an Austrian American a great month to read and learn about (b) is the first Asian León (b) is an Argentinian actress and inventor. In American woman to space suit designer World Kindness Day Diwali amazing pioneers in these fields. STEM/STEAM Day addition to having a star reach the rank of general and co-founder of the is a day to celebrate is the Hindu festival of on the Hollywood Walk in the U.S. Army. In the Latin American Space kindness and promote lights that celebrates See sidebar of Fame, she is also military justice branch, Association. He is now good deeds among the triumph of light over for details. known as the “Mother of she is the first female the director of the Human individuals and dark and knowledge WiFi” for her World War II Army Judge Advocates Spaceflight Laboratory organizations. over ignorance.* TRY THIS! invention that pre-dated General (JAG). at the University of Bluetooth technology. North Dakota. Check out First Book’s STEM Activities section to give students 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Col. Walter L. Watson, Lonnie Bunch (b) is the Maj. Marisol Chalas hands-on experiences through Jr. (USAF) (m) was the founding director of the Nicole Stott (b) is an (m) is the first Latina first and only African Smithsonian National engineer and retired National Guard Black coding robots, portable science labs, American to qualify as a Museum of African NASA astronaut. While Hawk helicopter pilot. crew member in the SR- American History and 1 aboard the International She became first in her building blocks and more! 71, a super-secret aircraft Culture and serves as Space Station in October class at Fort Rucker that routinely cruised at the 14th Secretary of 2009, she participated in Army Aviation School and altitudes in excess of the Smithsonian the first live tweets from earned many awards, 80,000 feet and speeds Institution. He is the outer space. including the American over MACH 3 (2,100 first African American by Choice award. DID YOU KNOW? MPH). to hold this role. 22 23 24 25 Thanksgiving Day 26 27 28 How many careers can you name that focus on STEM/STEAM? There are literally hundreds that require science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Consider the video game developer, accountant, astronaut, psychologist, financial analyst, 29 30 engineer, veterinarian, pilot, computer programmer, marine biologist and so AMERICAN INDIAN & many more. How many careers or ALASKA NATIVE HERITAGE jobs can your students name? MONTH 1 www.fbmarketplace.org/stem-activities

*Note: Hindu holidays follow the lunar calendar and therefore do not fall on the same dates each year. Students practicing this faith may be absent on these holidays.

For this calendar and more free resources, visit www.fbmarketplace.org/free-resources. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday DECEMBER 1 2 3 4 5 World AIDS Day In 1948, a few years after the end of is an international day In 1945, Charity Adams dedicated to raising Earley (b) became World War II, the UN General Assembly awareness of the commander of the adopted the Universal Declaration of prevention, care and first and only African treatment of HIV and American women unit Human Rights. This month, help students AIDS, and mourning of the Army during those who have died of World War II. understand the global scale of human the disease. rights – from freedom of speech to freedom of thought and equal protection 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Gladys Mae West (b) Grace Hopper (b) was Human Annie Jump Cannon Katherine Sui Fun under the law – that each human being, is a Black American a pioneer in computer (b) was an American Cheung (b) was a mathematician known science & a U.S. Navy Rights Day astronomer known for her Chinese immigrant who no matter where they live, should enjoy. for her contributions rear admiral. She helped work with stars. With her became the first licensed toward the mathematical create COBOL, one of See sidebar colleague, she is credited female Asian American modeling of the earth’s the most widely used for details. with refining the first aviator licensed to fly shape. Her work is computer languages. system of organizing and internationally. The included in the Global She was awarded 40 classifying stars based Smithsonian Museum TRY THIS! Positioning System honorary degrees from Hanukkah* on their temperatures recognizes her as the (GPS) that we use today. universities across the (10th - 18th) and light patterns. “First Asian American world during her life. Aviatrix.” Visit First Book’s Global Stories section for books featuring 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 characters, settings, and stories Ralph William Braun (b) is an inventor who was from around the world, including diagnosed with muscular dystrophy as a child. Vietnam, Cuba, France, Nigeria, At the age of 22, he 1 built his first motorized Mexico and many more. wheelchair. He was the founder and CEO of The Braun Corporation.

20 21 22 23 24 25 26 DID YOU KNOW? Kwanzaa, What does a mathematician do? Christmas (26th - January 1st) is derived from the Math is everywhere, and is an annual Christian phrase “matunda ya celebration of the birth kwanza” which means mathematicians are people of all of Jesus Christ. “first fruits” in Swahili. It is a seven-day celebration ages who enjoy the challenge of African heritage, of solving problems with math. culture, and unity. Mathematicians can see the 27 28 29 30 31 beauty in patterns and shapes and they work in many industries. Nichelle Nichols (b) is a Black American actress Allen K. Ono (b) The fields of astronomy (the study who played Lieutenant was the first Asian and Uhura in Star Trek. She Japanese American of the stars), space exploration, became a recruiter for lieutenant general NASA, inspiring many in the U.S. Army. medicine, robotics, climate study, people of color to pursue animated films and more require an careers in science. understanding and use of math. *Hanukkah is the 8-day Jewish “festival of lights,” celebrating the liberation from the Greeks by sharing food, games, gifts, and lighting the menorah. Jewish holidays follow the lunar calendar and therefore do not fall on the same dates each year. Students practicing this faith may be absent on these holidays. 1 www.fbmarketplace.org/global-stories

For this calendar and more free resources, visit www.fbmarketplace.org/free-resources. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

JANUARY New Year’s Day 1 2 Olga E. Custodio (b) Happy New Year! This month, we is a former U.S. Army officer who became celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s the first Latina military pilot. After retiring from birthday as a day of service. Observed on the military, she also the third Monday of January, this day is a became the first Latina commercial airline time to reflect on how each of us can be captain in the U.S. leaders in our schools and communities. 3 World Braille Day4 5 6 7 8 9 Adriana Ocampo (b) This celebrates the is a planetary geologist. birthday of Louis Braille, Frederick Drew Gregory Her work studying craters TRY THIS! inventor of the (b) is a pilot, engineer on the earth has led to Braille system. It also and former NASA her being named one of raises awareness astronaut. In the late Visit the Leadership section of the the 50 most important about the importance 1980s, he became the women in science by of Braille as a means of first African American First Book Marketplace for great Discover magazine. communication for blind man to command a An asteroid was even and partially-sighted space shuttle mission. books about leaders throughout named after her! history. Inspire your students to people. realize their own abilities with stories 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 In 1941, Della H. Raney of social justice, perseverance, and (b), a nurse, became the 1 first African American action from around the world. accepted into the Army Nurse Corps during World War II. She later became the first Black female nurse promoted to captain and major DID YOU KNOW? in the U.S. Army. What is a planetary geologist? Do 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 you ever wonder what the moon is Major Kurt Chew-Een In 1938, Willa Brown World Religion Day Lee (b) is the first U.S. (b) was the first African made of? What about the planet encourages interfaith MLK Jr. Day Marine Corps officer American woman to earn understanding and of Service of Asian descent. He her pilot’s license in the Mars? A planetary geologist studies asks people worldwide received many honors U.S. She co-founded the how moons, planets, asteroids and to recognize that all See sidebar and awards for his Cornelius Coffey School religions have common for details. fighting spirit and bravery of Aeronautics, a flight other things in space were formed. spiritual goals. in the Korean War training academy for and in Vietnam. Black pilots. They analyze pictures and sometimes samples from recent space shuttle 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 flights to learn about the history, Judith Resnik (b) was a NASA astronaut who climate and landscape of celestial died during the launch of the Challenger Space bodies. Shuttle in 1986. She was 31 the second American and first Jewish woman 1 www.fbmarketplace.org/leadership in space. She spent about 145 hours in orbit during her career.

For this calendar and more free resources, visit www.fbmarketplace.org/free-resources. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 Jessica Cox (b) is a Christina Hammock Koch Celebrate Black History Month and Filipino American who (m) is a NASA astronaut BLACK has the distinction of who in February 2020 set National Inventors’ Day in February. Take being the first person to a record for the longest HISTORY pilot a plane with only single spaceflight by a time to learn about amazing inventors her feet. She earned woman, with a total of MONTH her license in 2008 and 328 days in space. and help students see that creativity has became the first armless She was part of the pilot. She also earned a first all-woman space many backgrounds. Dr. Patricia Bath Guinness World Record. walk in 2019. pioneered laser cataract surgery on the 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 eye; Dr. Charles Drew invented a way Rebecca Lee Crumpler to store blood plasma; and Stephanie (b) was the first African Peggy Whitson (b) is Lunar New Year American woman to a former NASA chief is celebrated across become a doctor of astronaut. She has spent National Kwolek invented Kevlar, a heat resistant many East Asian medicine in 1864. She a total of 665 days in Inventors’ Day and Southeast published a medical space – more than any synthetic fiber that is five times stronger Asian countries and advice book for women other astronaut – and at See sidebar communities. According than steel. What discoveries will you and and children in 1883 that age 57 was the oldest for details. to tradition, 2021 is the is one of the first medical female astronaut in year of the Ox. your students find this month? publications by an space, ever. African American. TRY THIS! 14 President’s Day 15 16 17 18 19 20 Nirvana Day Explore the Biographies & Memoirs is the Buddhist holiday that celebrates the day section of the First Book Marketplace Buddha achieved nirvana – the final goal to learn more about individuals of Buddhism – upon the death of his and their incredible contributions to physical body. society.1 These books offer insight into the life, times, struggles and 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 triumphs of many who have greatly contributed to our society. Stayce Harris (m) became the first African American female lieutenant general of the U.S. Air Force DID YOU KNOW? in 2016. What does an engineer do? 28 Engineers use science, technology, and math to solve problems. They build skyscrapers, design planes and spaceships and even develop how new medicines can heal our bodies. Some of the most popular areas of engineering are chemical, mechanical, electrical, civil, computer, and biomedical engineering.

1 www.fbmarketplace.org/biography For this calendar and more free resources, visit www.fbmarketplace.org/free-resources. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday MARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6

This month, we celebrate Women’s Garret Morgan (b) was WOMEN’S an African American History. Take time to study, celebrate, inventor, entrepreneur HISTORY and community leader. and honor women who have played He is most famous for MONTH inventing the traffic signal pivotal roles in the history, culture, and and the first modern society of the U.S. Whether in the area gas mask. of racial and social justice, innovation in 7 International 8 9 10 11 12 13 STEM, or politics and business, women Women’s Day are instrumental in the evolution of our celebrates the social, nation. Puerto Rican Ana Roqué de economic, and cultural accomplishments of Duprey wrote The Botany of the Antilles, women and girls around the world. This is a global archiving flora in the Caribbean around opportunity to honor and support women fighting 1900. Dive into the stories of other for equal education, women in STEM this month! rights, and opportunities. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Susan La Flesche Picotte Kalpana Chawla (b) was Mario José Molina- TRY THIS! (b) was born on the an American astronaut, Pasquel Henríquez (b) Omaha Reservation in engineer, and the first is a Mexican chemist. Nebraska in 1865. She woman of Indian origin He played a pivotal role Visit First Book’s Empowering Stories is acknowledged as the to go into space. She in the discovery of the first Indigenous woman to died in the 2003 Space Antarctic ozone hole about Women and Girls section for receive a medical degree. Shuttle Columbia disaster and was a co-recipient In her career she served and is regarded as a of the 1995 Nobel Prize great titles including biographies, over 1,300 patients. national hero in India. in Chemistry. mysteries, coming of age stories and more that center women and girls.1 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Barrington Irving (m) is a Jamaican-born American Passover pilot who held the record for the youngest person (27th - April 4th) to pilot a plane around is a sacred Jewish DID YOU KNOW? the world solo. He did holiday that celebrates so in 2007 at the age of Jewish liberation from 23. He holds a Guinness slavery in ancient Egypt.* The study of medicine is incredibly World Record for his broad. We say someone is a “doctor,” achievement. but did you know there are hundreds 28 29 30 31 of specialties within medicine? International Day Some of the most common are of Transgender MUSIC IN dermatologists who treat the hair, skin, Visibility celebrates transgender OUR SCHOOLS and nails; family physicians who give people and raises awareness of the MONTH routine check-ups; and neurosurgeons contributions they make to society and the who perform brain surgery. Interested discrimination they face. in medicine? What specialty would *Note: Jewish holidays follow the lunar calendar and therefore do not fall on the same dates each year. Students practicing this faith may be absent on these holidays. you study?

1 www.fbmarketplace.org/empowering-stories-about- women-and-girls For this calendar and more free resources, visit www.fbmarketplace.org/free-resources. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday APRIL 1 2 3 Aprille Ericsson-Jackson (b) is the first Black On April 22, we celebrate Earth Day. woman to receive a NATIONAL Ph.D. in mechanical Launched in 1970, Earth Day is a time engineering from Howard POETRY University. She’s also for all of humanity to acknowledge the the first Black woman importance of our planet and take action MONTH to receive a Ph.D. in engineering at the to address pollution, climate change and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. more. The first Earth Day was inspired by 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 the now iconic photo, Earthrise, taken by Holocaust Dr. Serena M. Aunon (b) astronaut William Anders during a lunar Franklin Ramón Chang National was a flight engineer Easter Díaz (b) is a Costa Rican Remembrance Day at the International American engineer Library Week Space Station. She orbit in 1968. This Earth Day, take time is a Christian holiday (Yom HaShoah) and NASA astronaut. contributed to hundreds that celebrates the (4th - 10th) with your students to honor our collective He has flown seven honors the millions of of experiments in biology resurrection of Jesus celebrates the space flights and is the Jewish people who died and biotechnology, and Christ from the dead.* contributions of our home – planet Earth. first Latinx American in the Holocaust and the the investigations led to nation’s libraries and acts of heroic Jewish to fly into space. librarians. new cancer treatment resistance. methods. TRY THIS! 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Norma Merrick Sklarek Jerrie Mock (m) became Visit First Book’s Ecology and the Ramadan Today is the birthday (b) was the first African In 1947 Marie Maynard the first woman to fly (April 12 - May 11) Songkran of Francis B. Wai (b), a American to become Daly (b) became the first solo around the world, Environment section for great books is a month-long Islamic (13th - 15th) captain in the U.S. Army a licensed architect in Black woman to earn a completing her flight in holiday that celebrates marks the and the only Chinese New York (1954) and Ph.D. in chemistry in the 1964 in Columbus, Ohio. about the environment and inspiring the first revelation of the Thai New Year and American to receive a California (1962). She is U.S. She was a pioneer Her plane, the “Spirit of stories of kids and adults who Quran in which strict is celebrated by Medal of Honor for his famous for designing the in studying the effects Columbus,” is on display fasting is observed from a three-day valor in 1944 during war U.S. Embassy in Tokyo of cholesterol and at the Smithsonian work to ensure our planet is a sunrise to sunset.* water festival. with Japan. and Terminal 1 of the sugar on the heart. National Air and Space Los Angeles Airport. Museum in Chantilly, VA. healthy one.1 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Nancy Grace Roman Albert Einstein (m) was a In 2000, (m) is an American theoretical physicist who Shawna Rochelle Earth Day astronomer known as DID YOU KNOW? developed the theory of Kimbrell (b), a “The Mother of Hubble” relativity and the famous lieutenant colonel in the See sidebar for her significant role mass-energy equivalency United States Air Force, in planning the Hubble 2 for details. What is an astrophysicist? formula, E=MC . He became the first African Space Telescope. The received the Nobel Prize American female fighter telescope was launched An astrophysicist tries to understand in Physics in 1921. pilot in the history of in 1990 and continues to the universe, and everything in it – that service. orbit the earth today. from planets, to stars, galaxies and 25 26 27 28 29 30 other objects – by applying the laws Michelle Howard (b), of physics. From exploring how the made history in 1999 by becoming the first African universe began and how it evolved, American woman to command a U.S. Navy to searching for life on other planets, ship, the USS Rushmore. She later became the first astrophysicists seek to understand female four-star admiral how we fit into the universe. in the Navy.

1 www.fbmarketplace.org/ecology-and-the-environment *Note: These Christian and Muslim holidays do not fall on the same dates each year. Students practicing these faiths may be absent on these holidays.

For this calendar and more free resources, visit www.fbmarketplace.org/free-resources. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday MAY 1 JEWISH May includes the month-long celebrations ASIAN AMERICAN & AMERICAN of Asian American & Pacific Islander PACIFIC ISLANDER Heritage and Jewish American Heritage. HERITAGE HERITAGE MONTH It also includes the continuing observance MONTH of Ramadan, a month of fasting observed by Muslims to commemorate the first revelation of the Quran to the prophet 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Muhammad. Our heritage and spiritual Teacher Moses McKissack III (b) National Children’s and his brother, Calvin, beliefs have a profound influence on the Appreciation Day Mental Health founded the first Black- honors and celebrates owned architectural way we live, see and interact with the the lasting contributions Awareness Day firm in 1905. The firm teachers make in the links positive mental helped construct the world. This month, explore these cultures lives of students health to a child’s Smithsonian Museum and society. healthy development. of African American with great books from First Book. History and Culture. TRY THIS! 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Ellen Ochoa (b) is a Natalie Batalia (b) is a American retired NASA astronaut Eid al-Fitr National research astronomer Rocketry Challenge Share stories of diverse cultural who, in 1993, became (12th - 13th) who was co-investigator National Finals the first Latinx woman to School Nurse Day is one of the most and scientist on the Visit rocketcontest.org heritage through First Book’s go into space aboard the celebrates the more significant Muslim Kepler Mission, the first to see which middle 1 Space Shuttle Discovery than 45,000 school holidays, marking space mission capable of and high school teams Stories for All Project™. With and was the first Latinx nurses in the U.S. the end of Ramadan.* finding earth-size planets made it to the final director of the Johnson thousands of inclusive, representative around other stars. round of the competition. Space Center. titles, you’ll find engaging stories that offer windows into different cultures 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 In 1957 U.S. Army and mirrors to reflect your own Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Joseph Michael “Joe” astronomer Frank Johnson (m) is an Acabá (b) is an American Kameny (b) was experience. African American educator, hydrogeologist, dismissed from his marine biologist, policy and NASA astronaut. position because of expert and conservation In May 2004 he became his sexual orientation. strategist. She works to the first person of He appealed the firing, address climate change Puerto Rican heritage and his case was one of and ocean conservation to be named as a the first known civil rights DID YOU KNOW? policy in coastal cities. NASA astronaut. claims based on sexual orientation. It takes about three days to travel 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 from the Earth to the Moon on a spaceship. The Moon is about 240,000 miles from Earth. If you were to travel by car, going 60 mph, 30 Memorial Day 31 it would take you just under six months to make the trip!

1 www.fbmarketplace.org/see-all-stories-for-all-project *Note: Islamic holidays follow the lunar calendar and therefore do not fall on the same dates each year. Students practicing this faith may be absent on these holidays.

For this calendar and more free resources, visit www.fbmarketplace.org/free-resources. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday JUNE 1 2 3 4 5 Dr. Charles Drew (b) was an African American World June is Pride Month, when we celebrate Mark Polansky (b) is a surgeon who pioneered Environment Day LGBTQ Korean American and ways to store blood Is an important lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and Jewish NASA astronaut plasma. He organized U.N. observance. It PRIDE who flew on three queer (LGBTQ) individuals. It began the first large-scale blood encourages people to space shuttle missions bank in the U.S. and take care of the earth and MONTH between 2001 - 2009. as a way to commemorate the 1969 continued to manage raise awareness about its two of the largest blood need for protection. Stonewall Uprising in New York, where banks during WWII. thousands stood up against systemic 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 abuse towards LGBTQ people. Today, Robert Robinson Taylor it has evolved into a month of honoring Lori Arviso Alvord (m) is Anne McClain (b) is a (b) was the first African the first Diné (Navajo) lieutenant colonel in the American to graduate the LGBTQ community through woman to be certified in U.S. Army, an engineer from MIT and the first surgery in 1994. Known and a NASA astronaut. African American parades, workshops and celebrations. for combining western She’s the second known accredited academically medicine with traditional LGBT astronaut in trained architect when he Pride Month is a time of self and social healing, she was also a NASA’s history graduated in 1892. He 2013 nominee for U.S. and has spent over designed many buildings acceptance and activism for equality. Surgeon General. 200 days in space. at Tuskegee Institute and other HBCUs. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

TRY THIS! Bessie Coleman (m), Taylor Gun-Jin Wang (b) On this day in 1983, born in 1892, was an is a Chinese American Sally Ride (m) became Juneteenth Empathy, kindness and compassion Puerto Rican Day early American aviator. scientist and the first the youngest person and commemorates the day She earned her pilot’s that enslaved African honors all people of person of Chinese first American woman to license on this day Americans in Texas were are key to building strong friendships Puerto Rican birth or descent to go into space travel into space. In her in 1921 and was the told of their freedom heritage and is marked in 1985. He logged over career, she made two and getting to know people with life first woman of African in 1865 – two years by parades in many 2.9 million miles on the shuttle flights and is also American and Indigenous after the Emancipation major U.S. cities. space shuttle and holds known for being the first experiences different from your own. descent to do so. 20 U.S. patents. LGBTQ woman in space. Proclamation was signed. Visit the Respect & Empathy section for great titles and diverse stories 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Yehudit Abrams (m) is Ellison Onizuka (b) was Rita Rapp (b) was a to help students develop these key an American astronaut space food pioneer who 1 World Refugee Day a scientist and inventor character traits. of MonitHer, the first and engineer from led the Apollo Food There are more than 26 at-home hand held Hawaii. He was the first System. She worked million refugees in the monitor that detects early Asian American and to ensure that the food world, and this day brings breast cancer. The 2018 first person of Japanese astronauts ate in space awareness to their plight invention won a $360,000 ancestry to go into space. was delicious even at and the effort to protect prize from the WeWork He died aboard 230,000 miles in the air. their human rights. Creator Awards. the Space Shuttle She was famous for her DID YOU KNOW? Challenger in 1989. sugar cookies. What is the speed of light? The 27 28 29 30 speed of light is 186,282 miles per Sidney Gutierrez (b) second. In theory, nothing can travel is a Latinx engineer, faster than light. If you could travel pilot and retired NASA astronaut. During his at the speed of light, you could go career, he took two flights into space and logged around the Earth 7.5 times in one over 480 hours in space. second. The sun is so far away from the Earth that its light takes 8.3 minutes to reach our planet!

1 www.fbmarketplace.org/respect-and-empathy For this calendar and more free resources, visit www.fbmarketplace.org/free-resources. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday JULY 1 2 3 Dr. Fred Begay (b) was a Navajo and Ute nuclear On July 26, we celebrate National physicist. He was born Disability Independence Day, which in Towaoc, Colorado, on the Ute Mountain Indian commemorates the 1990 signing of the Reservation in 1932. His work focused on using Americans with Disabilities Act. This act lasers, electrons, and ion beams for alternative provides individuals who have physical energy sources. and intellectual disabilities with protection Independence Day 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 from employment discrimination, equal Dr. Daniel Hale Williams opportunity to access buildings and public Dalai Lama’s Birthday (b) was a pioneering African American heart Dalai Lamas are spiritual surgeon who became transportation, and more. This month, leaders and important the first physician to monks in Tibetan help students learn the importance of successfully perform Buddhism. The current open-heart surgery in Dalai Lama (b) received inclusion and valuing the contributions of 1893. He opened the first the Nobel Peace Prize interracial hospital in the in 1989. all people of all abilities. U.S. in 1891. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Col. Louis Gonzaga Maj. Michelle Curran Dr. Fred F. Ohr (b) was Sylvia Acevedo (b) TRY THIS! Naadam Mendez, Jr. (b) was (m) is the only female a Korean American World served for 4 years as a U.S. Army officer (11th - 15th), Thunderbird pilot in War II fighter pilot who CEO of the Girl Scouts who parachuted Boost compassion, empathy and a 3-day festival marking the U.S. Airforce’s destroyed six aircrafts of America. Previously a behind enemy lines Mongolia’s independence Demonstration Team. in the air and 17 on rocket scientist at NASA, more with stories from our in Normandy, France, from China, blends The squadron boasts the ground. He is the she has introduced during WWII. He helped 1 traditional arts and sports some of the world’s recipient of many military Girl Scout badges Special Needs & Abilities section. the Allied Forces win the with competitions in most elite fliers. There awards. After the war, for coding, robotics, war. The town’s square archery, horse racing have only been 5 female he became a engineering and was renamed, “La Place and wrestling. Thunderbirds in history. dental surgeon. cybersecurity. du Colonel Mendez.” 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 DID YOU KNOW? Eid al-Adha Agnes Driscoll (b) The Day of Arafat was a cryptanalyst Jessica Cox has the distinction (19th - 20th), during WWI and WWII. (18th - 19th), the Muslim day of Her ability to decode of being the first person to pilot a the Muslim holiday sacrifice and one of messages sent between of repentance and the most significant the Japanese gave U.S. plane with only her feet. A Filipino forgiveness, is Muslim holidays, military commanders marked by fasting.* is usually marked insight that would help American, she earned her license in with a large meal.* win the war. 2008 and became the first armless pilot. Her perseverance led to a 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Guinness World Record. She is also Stephanie Kwolek The Naval ship (b) was an American Charles Bolden Jr. (b) the first armless black belt in the USS Chung-Hoon was chemist. In 1965, she National Disability is a former NASA named after Gordon invented Kevlar, a heat astronaut who became American Taekwondo Association. Chung-Hoon (b), an Independence Day resistant and strong, the first African American admiral in the U.S. Navy synthetic fiber that is five to lead NASA on a who became the first See sidebar times stronger than steel. 1 permanent basis in 2009. www.fbmarketplace.org/special-needs-and-abilities Asian American flag for details. She was inducted into officer during WWII. the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1995.

*Note: Islamic holidays follow the lunar calendar and therefore do not fall on the same dates each year. Students practicing this faith may be absent on these holidays.

For this calendar and more free resources, visit www.fbmarketplace.org/free-resources. MAKE YOUR OWN GALAXY! SCIENCE EXPERIMENT #1 A galaxy is a huge collection of gas, dust and billions of stars and their own solar systems all held together by gravity. The Earth’s galaxy is called the Milky Way. Scientists estimate that there are more than 100 billion galaxies in the universe. In this activity, students will make and name their own galaxy.

MATERIALS NEEDED: • Black construction paper (11x17 if possible) • Colored construction paper • Markers, crayons and/or colored pencils • Glitter (optional) • Glue stick • Scissors

DO THIS: 1. Using the colored paper, ask students to design the stars, planets, comets, and moons that they’d like to have in their galaxy. 2. Have students cut out their designs and arrange them on the black construction paper. 3. Ask students to glue the designs down with a glue stick. 4. Invite students to add glitter to their design to represent the millions of stars being born each day. 5. Finally, ask students to give their galaxy a name. 6. Display the galaxies where friends and families can admire them!

Adapted from NASA For this calendar and more free resources, visit www.fbmarketplace.org/free-resources. ENERGY ON THE MOVE SCIENCE EXPERIMENT #2 Heat makes molecules move fast, and in this activity, students will observe what happens when food coloring moves through hot and cold water.

MATERIALS NEEDED: DO THIS: • Hot tap water 1. Pour ice water (without the ice) in one of the plastic cups – about ¾ full. • Ice water 2. Fill the other plastic cup with the hot tap water – about ¾ full. • 2 clear plastic cups 3. Put one drop of yellow and one drop of blue food coloring on the surface of the hot and cold water. • Food coloring (yellow & blue) 4. Ask students what they notice about the way the food coloring is moving in the cold water vs. hot water.

WHAT TO EXPECT: The food coloring in the hot water will move faster, and will mix to become more green than the food coloring in the cold water.

WHAT’S HAPPENING? Heat is a form of energy, and the heat from the hot water makes the water molecules move faster than the molecules in the cold water. The fast moving molecules in the hot water bump into the food coloring molecules more often and with more force and move them faster than the molecules in the cold water.

Adapted from the American Chemical Society For this calendar and more free resources, visit www.fbmarketplace.org/free-resources. EGG DROP CHALLENGE SCIENCE EXPERIMENT #3 Students will learn about inertia and hopefully stay dry in this fun activity.

MATERIALS NEEDED: • 1 plastic cup of water (about ½ full) with a mouth wide enough to fit the egg • 1 10’ piece of cardboard or a small tray with a smooth bottom • 1 cardboard tube (a paper towel or toilet paper tubes) • 1 egg (uncooked adds more drama!)

DO THIS: 1. Place the plastic cup on a table or stand. 2. Place the cardboard or small tray on top of the plastic cup of water. 3. Place the tube vertically on top of the cardboard or small tray. 4. Place the egg horizontally on top of the tube. 5. When ready, strike the tray hard enough with your palm to send the tray flying forward, but not so hard that you hit the glass of water. If all goes well, the tray and the tube will go flying, but the egg will drop into the water.

HOW DOES IT WORK? Inertia describes how much energy is needed to move or stop an item from moving. Since the tray and the cardboard tube are lightweight, not much energy is required to move them. The egg is heavier and will drop into the water.

See a video of this activity here.

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