DIY Lessons - JOY HAKIM

LESSON 1 - History’s Cut Up: The Story of Andreas Vesalius, who dissected human bodies, which annoyed his teacher, but reshaped the study of anatomy.

LESSON 2 - A Hundred Years Before Rosa Parks: A look at the story of Elizabeth Jennings Graham and what happened after she sat down on a New York City streetcar in 1854.

LESSON 3
Proving the World Round: How the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan changed what people knew about the shape of our planet.

LESSON 4
Catch a Ride! Catch a Bug! A look at pathogens and how they move around the planet.

LESSON 5
A Book That Costs Less Than a Cow: A look at Johannes Gutenberg and the history of printing presses - and a challenge to make a book of your own.

LESSON 6
History by Dickens: How one of the world's great novelists wrote about the story of his own country.

LESSON 7
Archimedes’ Claw: Counting numbers and building war machines with Archimedes, the legendary Sicilian mathematician.

LESSON 8
A Number Called Zero? Going back through time to see how we learned to count.

LESSON 9
An Irishman Among Iroquois: The story of William Johnson, who traveled to America and learned to live in two very different worlds.

LESSON 10
Lucy In The Sky, Found Underfoot: How fossils found in the 1970's changed the way we think about human development.

LESSON 11

Her Name was Judge: One of George Washington's slaves wanted to be free. Here is her story.

Lesson 12
Discovering Viruses: Even though he couldn't see them, one scientist gave them a name.

LESSON 13
A Frenchwoman Ahead of Her Time: The story of Émilie du Châtelet's wild life and the equation she discovered.

Lesson 14
On Keeping A Journal: Which Could Make You Famous, as it Did For Two 17th Century Diarists

Lesson 15
Imagine You Are a Rich Virginia Slaveowner: Will You Free Your Slaves?

Lesson 16
Drones at Everest: How one student went from building with blocks to scaling mountains with drones.

National Portrait Gallery UK

Lesson 17
Beatrix Potter Likes Lichens: She was known for writing and illustrating "Peter Rabbit," but Beatrix Potter also had a passion for studying a symbiotic organism called lichen.