Science

TEN GREAT AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN OF SCIENCE
With Hands-On Science Activities

Dr. Clifford Watson

Here's your source for African American role models in science - written for students who are at an age when male role models really make a difference!

An Authentic Voice text - by an author from within the culture!

Ten Great African American Men of Science makes inclusion in science easy and fun with its experiments and hands-on activities. This book is a valuable tool for teaching science - as well as pride, self-confidence, and self-esteem - to African American students.

For each of the 10 role models, the lesson includes:

• a biography
• reading comprehension check
• writing activities
• science activities
• a hands-on experiment

The book has lessons on Benjamin Banneker, George Washington Carver, Charles Drew, Meredith Gourdine, Ernest Just, Garrett A. Morgan, Alvin Poussaint, Norbert Rilleux, Daniel Hale Williams, and Louis Tompkins Wright.

Students can use the experiments in Ten Great African American Men of Science to learn about biology, electrical circuits, behavior and stereotypes, medicine, and a wide range of other topics.

Go to our other useful titles on role models, African Americans in U.S. History, and multicultural people in science:

• African and African American Women in Science
• Multicultural Women of Science
• Latino Women of Science
• In Our Own Image: African American History
• African American History: A Journey of Liberation
• The Peoples Multicultural Almanac

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Additional Key Words: biology, earth science, inclusion, inventors, inventions, physical science, role models, self-esteem, technology, medicine, life science

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