Black History Month Collection

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Little People, Big Dreams Mae Jemison by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara
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Little People, Big Dreams Mae Jemison by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara
$ 15.99
A young Katherine Johnson sits on a chair in front of a moon image decorated with different mathematical formulas. The paperback book is blue, with yellow text, and is 11.3" x 9.4".
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Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker, Illustrated by Dow Phumiruk
$ 18.99
Leland Melvin is pictured in front of an image of earth from space in his orange space suit with two dogs on his lap; one is licking him.
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Chasing Space by Leland Melvin (Young Readers Edition)
$ 7.99
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The planetary orbit is made from unfinished plywood: the planets around it are in muted colors of blue, yellow, and orange.
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ROKR Mechanical Orrery
$ 91.99
The product box is purple, pink, red, and yellow shades. Twelve cards with two matching sets have different illustrations about outer space. An astronaut is holding an American flag, the planet Uranus, Neptune's biggest moon, Jupiter's major moons, Mars, and a Space shuttle, to name a few.
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Space Exploration Memory and Matching Game
$ 16.99
Yellow and white shuttle rocket launcher.
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Build Your Own NASA Spaceship
$ 35.00
There is a black cotton t-shirt with Dope Black Scientist written across the front in white.
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Dope Black Scientist T-Shirt
$ 25.99
This full deck of cards ( with numbers and suits for actual gameplay) features 26 profiles of women and gender minorities in physics careers—including the Exploratorium's own senior physicist, Desiré Whitmore.
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Across the Spectrum: Women & Gender Minorities in Physics Careers Playing Cards
$ 12.00
A 16oz pint glass with an image of Alice Ball with chemistry symbols around the outside printed in black. A golden beer fills the clear glass to show contrast against the black printed sections
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Alice Ball Pint Glass
$ 18.95
A white box with graph paper lines with Math Fluxx and zero through eight filled in with different colors.
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Math Fluxx
$ 16.99
"The Girl With a Mind for Math" is a hardcover book with a green cover representing a chalkboard. A young Raye Montague is drawing math equations on the chalkboard.
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The Girl with a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague By Julia Finley Mosca
$ 17.99
It is a hardcover 9.9" x 8.1". It is an illustrated image of Bessie Coleman looking through a window in a spaceship out into space. The vast universe surrounds her. The title is in white. The author and illustrator, and sub-title are in yellow.
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Blast Off Into Space Like Mae Jemison by Caroline Moss, Illustrated by Sinem Erkas
$ 15.99
It is a paperback book that is 9" x 6". The cover is an illustrated picture of Katherine Johnson, Bessie Coleman, and Mae Jemison. their portraits are in the clouds, and a space shuttle is leaving from the corner.
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Black Women in Science by Kimberly Brown Pellum, PhD
$ 9.99
Plush finger puppet of Bessie Coleman in her 1920's aviation attire.
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Bessie Coleman Magnetic Finger Puppet
$ 7.95
A woman wearing a white shirt with the periodic table of elements of the front. She is standing in front of a colorful skateboard exhibit at the Exploratorium.
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Exploratorium Periodic Table T-Shirt Unisex
$ 24.00
It is a blue box with an image of the clip-on microscope attached to a digital device with sample cells sitting on the left side.
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Cells Under a Microscope
$ 34.95
A young girl in a lab coat looking at the green Botany Kit with six thriving plants growing in it.
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Botany Experimental Greenhouse
$ 39.95
A paperback book with a green and white cover featuring three prominent scientific men, James McCune Smith, Lewis Howard Latimer, and Rick Kittles.
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Black Men in Science By Bryan Patrick Avery
$ 9.99
A young girl sitting at a table uses the Zoomy handheld digital microscope to look closer at a lemon. The magnified image of the lemon is on the screen of the child's laptop computer.
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Zoomy Digital Microscope
$ 71.99
This is a paperback book with a yellow cover figured as yellow sunbeams; there are three black inventors profiles in white puffy clouds, George Washington Carver, Bessie Blount Griffin, and Lisa Gelobter.
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Black Inventors: 15 Inventions That Changed the World by Kathy Trusty
$ 9.99
An illustration of George Washington Carver holding a bushel of freshly picked peanuts standing out in his field.
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Little Naturalist: George Washington Carver Loved Plants by Katie Coombs
$ 9.99
Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry is a paperback book. It is 9.1 x 6.1  inches in dimension. The cover is white, with drawings of different space-related planets, satellites, asteroids, and black holes appear on the cover in purple, yellow, red, orange, and blue-green.   
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Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson with Gregory Mone
$ 11.95
"Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" is a hardcover book. The cover is a photograph of the Milky Way with a person holding a book in silhouette.
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
$ 18.95
"What Color is My World" has a red cover with radiating lines from t a glowing light bulb. I'm in the middle.
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What Color is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors by Kareem Abdul-Jabber, Raymond Obstfeld, Illustrated by Ben Boos and A.G. Ford
$ 17.99