GRADE LEVEL: Elementary School
COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening In 1983, a social scientist named David Chambers published a research study on children’s drawings. The study summarized data from the late 1960s and 1970s in which teachers asked 5,000 children to “draw a scientist.” One theme appeared strongly: the scientist drawings were almost all men. Recently, researchers looked at 78 “draw-a-scientist” studies (from 1985 to…