Selected Stories Organized by Grade Level

Olivia Bouler Olivia created 500 paintings of her feathered friends to raise funds for Audubon's bird rescue.

Chief Oren Lyons is an internationally venerated advocate for preserving biodiversity.

Mohamed Sidibay speaks out to give a name and a face behind the stories of child soldiers.

John Muir advocated preservation, feeling that natural areas promote mental health.

Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, was the mother of the environmental movement.

Her story was hidden for decades: Katherine Johnson plotted multiple flight courses for NASA, including the Apollo 11 spacecraft, the first spaceship to reach the moon.

Madame Curie received the Nobel Prize for her discovery of Radium.

Alan Turing was a brilliant scientist and mathematician who laid the theoretical groundwork for the first computer.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist, cosmologist and science communicator.