Online Activities for Womens History Month
- Women of Accomplishment: An Internet Scavenger Hunt from Education World has a new womens history question every day.
- The Social Studies School Service has designed several lessons, student exercises, and reviews of special materials that present exciting ways to bring womens history into your classroom.
- WomenInWorldHistory.com is full of information, resources, and classroom activities about womens experiences in world history.
Womens History Sources
- The Women in Kentucky: Our Legacy, Our Future web site is one component of a four-part project that includes a television program.
- The National Womens History Project is a good resource site. A poster and classroom activity kit are available for a fee.
- Susan B. Anthony from the University of Rochester (Anthonys hometown) has lots of information on this important suffragist.
- Womens Suffrage, also at the University of Rochester, has a brief summary of suffragists lives and work as well as the historic meeting in Seneca Falls.
- 4,000 Years of Women in Science! has biographies, an interactive quiz, a crossword puzzle, and links.
- American Womens History: A Research Guide helps with finding photos and primary sources.
- Historical and current women in science and politics from the Franklin Institute Online
- Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
- Womens ExhibitionCelebrating Womens Achievements: 21 Pioneers from the National Library of Canada highlights the achievements of 21 women from Canadas past through a display of books, photos, reading lists, and other materials.
- Biographies of Women Mathematicians
- National Womens History Museum in Washington, DC
Lesson Plans and Activities
- Women of the Century is a webquest from Education World.
- Women of Accomplishment , also from Education World, is an Internet hunt.
Multimedia Sites: Womens History
- What Did You Do in the War, Grandma? is an oral history project from Rhode Island. The site includes the texts of high school students interviews with more than two dozen Rhode Island women discussing their lives before and during World War II; a World War II timeline; a streaming audio presentation of one of the original interviews, synchronized with a sequence of web pages; and a bibliography and reference pages.
- A celebration of womens history, achievements, and future is maintained by the Susan B. Anthony University Center, University of Rochester.
- Mary Lyon (1797-1849) was a teacher from Massachusetts, an American pioneer, and the remarkable woman who founded the worldwide model of higher education for women: Mount Holyoke College.
- Women in Science from The Franklin Institute Online honors pioneering women in science and technology.
Women Authors
- Voices from the Gaps focuses on the lives and works of women writers of color.
- A Celebration of Women Writers has texts, recordings, and links to information about women writers.
- The Brown University Women Writers Project is an electronic text database of womens writing in English from roughly 1330 to 1830.
- The Victorian Women Writers Project features electronic editions of works by British women writers of the late 19th century.
Arts/Television Resources
- Women In Kentucky: Our Legacy, Our Future inspires interest in Kentucky history, focusing particularly on the achievements of women, and promotes the values of citizenship and public service by documenting the progress of women in positions of community leadership and elected office.
- Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, a PBS series, includes kids activities.
- One Woman, One Vote has information about the 1995 PBS program of the same name, as well as a history and timeline of the suffrage movement and discussion questions for the classroom. Videotapes can be ordered.
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