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Wangari Maathai
In this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Wangari Maathai and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym...
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Rachel Carson
In this famous person activity, students read a passage about Rachel Carson and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym...
Curated OER
Stand Up and Sing
Students locate historical references in songs. They create music/lyrics to illustrate an historical topic.
Other
Library Bulletin: Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement
A comprehensive list of books and documents available in the University of Rochester Rare Books and Special Collections exhibit of 1995. Brief summaries of the books, documents and their authors are available at this site.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Women in the Civil Rights Movement
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Opposition to the Women's Rights Movement
A learning module that begins with "Opposition to the Women's Rights Movement" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 7: Women's Rights Movement
Read and study the sources about the women's rights movement. As you read the four sources, think about the influences on and goals of the women's rights movement during the 1800s.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Women's Sphere and the Emergence of the Women's Rights Movement
This article focuses on American women in the 19th century and the movement from a domestic ideology to the emergence of feminism.
US House of Representatives
History, Art, and Archives: The Women's Rights Movement, 1848 1920
Many groups and women leaders worked tirelessly to advance women's rights in society, specifically the right to vote. This tireless effort paid off with the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920. Examine the early strides in the women's...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: The American Civil Rights Movement: An Overview
Given primary and secondary resources, students will be able to trace the historical development of the civil rights movement in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, and describe the roles of political organizations that promoted civil...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: The Women's Rights Movement
Internet based activity for high school students about the women's rights movement. Connected with a textbook series but could be used by anyone. Nice, self-contained activity.
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Women's Rights
A comprehensive learning module on women's rights that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and primary source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include the women's suffrage...
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Report of the Women's Rights Convention
Complete proceedings of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention advocating women's rights.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Timeline: Civil Rights Movement
Explore this timeline of women in the Civil Rights movement.
Other
Feminist.com: Taking a New Look at the Woman Suffrage Movement
An article on the historical aspects of the women's suffrage movement, with a feminist viewpoint.
Library of Congress
Loc: Votes for Women: Suffrage Pictures 1850 1920
This extensive and varied resource shares images of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. Conduct a keyword search to explore the collection.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: African American Women and the Civil Rights Movement
This exhibit spotlights the voice of African American Women leaders in the movement and highlights their significant roles and contributions.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Gloria Steinem
Biographical profile of Gloria Steinem, journalist, feminist, and passionate leader and spokeswoman of the women's rights movement in the late 20th century.
University of Virginia
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: The Woman's Rights Movement
Read about the 19th century women's reform movement as well as primary resources including the Seneca Falls Declaration & Resolutions, an editorial by Frederick Douglass, and excerpts form "History of Woman Suffrage."
US Department of State
America.gov: Seneca Falls Convention Began Women's Rights Movement
Learn about the convention that not only paved the way for women's rights but also lead to women's suffrage. This article describes the political climate that motivated Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and other proponents of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Library of Congress: Media Gallery | Women's Suffrage
This collection of primary source documents from the Library of Congress supports teaching about women's suffrage in the United States. These primary sources include images, song sheets, articles, statistical documents, maps, political...
Scholastic
Scholastic: A Brief History of Women's Rights Movements
Find a history of the several movements that advocated for women's rights in voting, politics, and at work.
Other
Student Historical Journal 1984 1985: Women's Rights Before the Civil War [Pdf]
Read an overview of the pre-Civil War women's rights movement in a student essay in an historical journal from Loyola University. Find out about specific activists prominent during this time period and learn about their attempts to...
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National Park Service: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This NPS website contains a biography on Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the driving force behind the 1848 Convention and a leader in the women's rights movement.