NASA/ Hidden Figures English Lessons

Four lessons to this bundle:
Students will be going on an adventure to NASA headquarters to learn about the ‘coloured computers’ who changed lives!

1. Reading & Comprehension based on the four inspirational African American women: Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Christine Darden and Mary Jackson , who worked at NASA during the Space Race.

2. Vocabulary & sentence Writing:
   Students will use animations on PPT to design and manufacture their own spacecraft but also search for the parts. The parts provide the students with vocabulary words and they will have an opportunity to write sentences on their worksheet.

3. Grammar & Oracy lesson:
   Students will complete a recall quiz based on lesson 1 and 2. They will then be designing a Katherine Johnson robot by completing a spelling test. Once the robot is designed they will complete a hot seat activity with her, enhancing their speaking and grammar skills.

4. Independent writing lesson:
   Students will now write a biography based on katherine Johnson and display it at NASA headquarters

All lessons have worksheets