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She Can STEM : 50 Trailblazing Women in Science from Ancient History to Today - Includes Hands-On Activities Exploring Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heinecke, Liz Lee.
- Series:
- The Kitchen Pantry Scientist Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women scientists--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Women scientists.
- Women in science--Juvenile literature.
- Women in science.
- Women in technology--Juvenile literature.
- Women in technology.
- Women engineers--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Women engineers.
- Women mathematicians--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Women mathematicians.
- Technology--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Technology.
- Science--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Science.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (163 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Quarto Publishing Group USA, 2024.
- Summary:
- She Can STEM highlights the curiosity, creativity, and perseverance of 50 leading historical and modern physicists, chemists, biologists, and ecologists, pairing each biography with a hands-on project.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- Tapputi-Belatikallim: Fragrance Distillation
- Maria Sibylla Merian: Biological Illustration/Metamorphosis
- Laura Bassi: Air/Electricity
- Eunice Newton Foote: Greenhouse Gases
- Fanny Hesse: Agar Growth Median
- Agnes Pockels: Surface Tension
- Marie Curie: Elemental Extraction
- Susan La Flesche Picotte: Public Health/Houseflies
- Mary Agnes Chase: Agrostology/Grasses
- Ynés Mexía: Plant Collection/Identification
- Lise Meitner: Nuclear Fission
- Alice Ball: Organic Separation
- Gerty Cori: The Cori Cycle
- Katharine Burr Blodgett: Thin Films
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: Star Material
- Dora Priaulx Henry: Barnacles
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer: Nuclear Shell Model
- Mary Golda Ross: Aerospace Engineering
- Rachel Carson: Environmental Contaminants
- Chien-Shiung Wu: Symmetry
- Anna Jane Harrison: Organic Compounds/Ultraviolet Light
- Ruby Payne-Scott: Sunspots
- Rosalind Franklin: DNA Structure
- Margaret S. Collins: Zoology/Termites
- Esther Lederberg: Lambda Phage/Replica Plating
- Edith Flanigen: Molecular Sieves
- Tu Youyou: Medicinal Plant Compounds
- June Almeida: Coronaviruses/Agglutination
- Sylvia Earle: Ocean Research
- Ada Yonath: Ribosome Structure
- Wangari Maathai: Green Belt Movement
- Patricia Bath: Medical Devices/Cataract Surgery
- Christine Darden: Aircraft Wing Design
- Margaret Cairns Etter: Crystallography
- Valerie L. Thomas: Illusion Transmitter
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell: Pulsars
- Linda Buck: Olfactory Chemistry
- Robin Wall Kimmerer: Plant Ecology/Traditional Knowledge
- Dana Bergstrom: Antarctic Research
- Aparajita Datta: Seed Dispersal
- Lisa Schulte Moore: Prairie Strips
- Nadya Mason: Conductivity/Carbon
- Danielle Lee: Pattern Recognition/Science Communication
- Raychelle Burks: Colorimetric Sensors.
- Lesley De Souza: Conservation Biology
- Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: Marine Conservation/Public Policy
- Jodie Darquea Arteaga: Bycatch Reduction
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: Cosmology
- Rae Wynn-Grant: Carnivore Ecology/Animal Behavior
- Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil: Galaxies
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- About the Illustrator
- Index
- Dedication
- Copyright.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780760386071
- 0760386072
- OCLC:
- 1420049190
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