Classroom Activity: Hidden Figures

Download these free printable worksheets to help your students practice evidence-based analysis while reading Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures: Young Readers’ Edition or Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race written with Winifred Conkling and illustrated by Laura Freeman.

If you’re using the picture-book edition in your classroom, download this free character-map worksheet. Students will analyze one of the four female main characters in the story and describe how she represents a positive role model.

If you’re using the young readers’ edition in your classroom, have your students interpret the meaning behind the title Hidden Figures. 

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