FREE Resource – 50 motivational quotes PDF posters from real scientists for your classroom

Representation matters.

My plan is to create a gallery wall by grab cheap black frames from the dollar store and print out the pictures in color. You could also choose to print them out in B/W on colored paper to fit your current classroom theme or as a POP of color. Another option is that you you could add one poster a day to your Warm Up slide to highlight different scientists or display one poster a week as the Scientist of the week. Let me know what other ideas you come up with in the comments below!

Scientists I used for the posters and their accomplishments:

• Neil deGrasse Tyson – astrophysicist who is the Director of Hayden Planetarium and host of StarTalk
• Marie Curie – only person to win a Nobel prize in two different sciences (Physics and Chemistry) and known for her work on radioactivity
• Albert Einstein – Nobel Prize winning physicist who developed the theory of relativity, E=mc²
• Sir Isaac Newton – mathematician and scientist known for inventing Calculus and discovering gravity
• Dame Jane Goodall – primatologist who studied wild chimpanzees in Tanzania for 60 years
• Galileo Galilei – astronomer and father of modern physics
• Claude Lévi-Strauss – anthropologist who helped develop the theory of structuralism
• Kurt Vonnegut – author known for writing Slaughterhouse-Five; studied mechanical engineering
• Rosalind Franklin – chemist who used X-ray diffraction to take the first photograph of DNA
• Mae Jemison – engineer, physician and former NASA astronaut; first female African American in space
• Stephanie Kwolek – chemist who invented Kevlar
• Marie Daly – chemist who discovered the relationship between cholesterol and clogged arteries
• Nichelle Nicholos – former NASA Ambassador and Star Trek actress
• Marissa Mayer – technologist and former CEO of Yahoo
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee – computer scientist best known for inventing the World Wide Web (www.)
• Stephen Hawking – theoretical physicist best known for his work on black holes
• Annie Easley – computer scientist, mathematician and rocket scientist who worked for NASA
• Charles Darwin – naturalist who created the Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection
• Thomas Edison – inventor of the light bulb, the phonograph, & the motion picture camera
• Alexander Graham Bell – inventor of the telephone
• George Washington Carver – agricultural scientist and inventor known for developing crop rotation methods to prevent soil depletion
• Katherine Johnson – NASA mathematician who calculated the orbital mechanics of the first crewed spaceflights
• Sabrina González Pasterski – one of the leading theoretical physicists and has been called the “Next Albert Einstein”
• Gladys West – mathematician who helped develop the models used to create GPS
• Linus Pauling – father of molecular biology who discovered the cause of sickle cell anemia and created synthetic plasma
• Dr. Alexa Canady – first female African American neurosurgeon in the United States
• Walter Lincoln Hawkins – chemist and engineer who pioneered polymer chemistry (plastic sheath for telephone cables)
• Witri Wahyu Lestari – scientist designing novel catalysts for obtaining green diesel (renewable fuel sources)
• Charissa Marcaida Ferrerra – studying the relationship between biology, chemistry, and geology of the marine ecosystem
• Mario J. Molina – Nobel Prize Chemist who discovered the environmental threat that CFCs were contributing to ozone depletion
• Ellen Ochoa – engineer and former NASA astronaut; first Hispanic woman to go to space
• Steve Jobs – business magnate and pioneer of the personal computer era
• Sally Ride – physicist and the first American woman and youngest person in space
• Carl Sagan – astronomer, astrophysicist and Pulitzer Prize winning author
• Antonia Novello – first woman and person of Hispanic descent to serve as the Surgeon General of the United States
• Gertrude B. Elion – Nobel Prize winner in physiology who helped develop drugs to treat leukemia and prevent kidney transplant rejection
• Louis Pasteur – chemist and microbiologist who discovered pasteurization and created some of the first vaccines
• Henry Ford – business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company and developer of the assembly line
• Amelia Earhart – the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
• Elon Musk – business magnate and engineer behind SpaceX and Tesla
• Deepika Kurup – inventor, scientist and clean water advocate who created a solar powered water filtration system at 14 years old
• Mark Zuckerberg – business magnate and internet entrepreneur known for co-founding Facebook
• Alan Turing – mathematician and cryptographist who helped break the codes from Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine
• Temple Grandin – animal scientist and activist who designs equipment for more human treatment of livestock
• Bessie Virginia Griffin – pioneer physical therapist and inventor who did much for the amputee soldiers of WWII
• Sigmund Freud – neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis
• Lori Greiner – inventor, entrepreneur and well known investor from Shark Tank
• Richard Feynman – theoretical physicist known for his work on quantum electrodynamics
• Frank Wilczek – Nobel Prize theoretical physicist
• Sir Alexander Fleming – physician and Nobel prize microbiologist known for discovering Penicillin