October is Black History Month
Many countries, including the UK, observe this month and schools often take this as an opportunity to celebrate and notice their black communities and their history while others use it as a chance to study historic figures and people of note locally, nationally, and globally.
There are many organisations throughout the UK and beyond that provide lots of incredible resources and offer education packs and themes such as ‘Reclaiming Narratives’ and ‘Celebrating our changemakers’ and we’ve popped some links to these at the foot of the blog.
If you followed us last year, you might remember that we partnered with the amazing people at Queer Education Consultancy and created a set of 4 poster to use in your classrooms, assemblies, science clubs or to share with families. A version of these is on the Queer Ed website and we’ve re-released our poster set here as well! Plus, our members have an even fuller My Science Club version in their own special members area!
So why not take one of these incredible black intersectional scientists and share their story whilst connecting to their work in your science club..?
- First up is Delbert, an evolutionary biologist…
- Then we have Craig who works to improve fog forecasting in Northern India….
- Meet Kat, a Kenyan America theoretical chemist who is a student in California….
- Finally, we have Naomi, who is a solar system ambassador for the James Webb Space Telescope! Why not combine Naomi’s profile with World Space Week too and our careers packs!
We’d love to hear from you about the things you and your clubbers get up to so don’t forget to tag us in your posts this month if you use any of our profiles, we’d love to hear from you
Bryony and Paul
Founders and creators of My Science Club
Links:
Black History Month UK website
Independent Black History Month UK website
Free Black & LGBTQ+ Scientist poster set from Queer Education Consultancy
