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Free Hidden Figures Word Search (Printable PDF + Answer Key)
Hidden Figures, the book by Margot Lee Shetterly and the 2016 film, tells the story of Black women mathematicians whose work at NASA helped win the SPACE RACE. This free word search starts with its three heroes: Katherine JOHNSON, Dorothy VAUGHAN and Mary JACKSON, who worked as human COMPUTERS at the LANGLEY research center in Virginia.
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The 15 Words in This Puzzle
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The rest of the grid follows their work: each MATHEMATICIAN checking a TRAJECTORY, John GLENN’s ORBIT of the Earth in Project MERCURY, the later APOLLO missions, Vaughan teaching herself and her team the FORTRAN programming language, and Jackson becoming NASA’s first Black female ENGINEER. It fits Black History Month or Women’s History Month. The word list is medium and suits students from about 10 up. The printable PDF has the answer key on page two. More in the Black history word searches and the space word searches.
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