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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students will consider Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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Other

The Virtual Historian: Persons's Case

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars will examine letters and legal documents associated with the Persons Case. Through the process they will make inferences about human rights and discrimination against women dating prior to 1929 when the word "persons" in...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: Suffrage Strategies: Voices for Votes Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students will learn all about the history of suffrage for women and what influences were used to change people's attitudes. They will then use their understanding to create a modern-day election document of ephemera, for example, a...
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US National Archives

Nara: Teaching With Documents: Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Primary documents related to women's suffrage in the 1800s are presented here accompanied by teaching ideas. There is a script called 'Failure is Impossible' that was commissioned by the National Archives, as well as petitions, proposed...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Nineteenth Century Women: Struggle and Triumph Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Journals, letters, and narratives reveal a part of America's history not revealed in textbooks, the story of women, namely the women of the 1800s. With this activity, students gain understanding of women and history through various...
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: Wake Up, America: Women's Suffrage [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that examines the political and educational limitations women faced in early America. Students will describe early developments in the progression...
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: 19th Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women voting rights.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Breaking Through Gender Roles

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will explore the women of NASA and identify and analyze their key contributions to the field of aeronautics.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Eleanor Roosevelt: An Agent of Social Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Eleanor Roosevelt redefined the role of an agent of social change as the First Lady of the United States and later as a representative to the United Nations. She helped to create The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which remains...
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Susan B. Anthony

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
In this lesson, students will learn about Susan B. Anthony and her fight for what she believed in. Students will identify Susan B. Anthony's actions that make her an agent for change.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Lesson Plan: Martha Hughes Cannon

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Lesson plan on Martha Hughes Cannon, the first female state senator in U.S. history.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Women's Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Women's Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: The Equal Rights Amendment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), proposed in 1923, has never been ratified. Activists seeking gender equality have sought its ratification since its first proposal but that dream fell short after the anti-ERA movement fought against its...
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US National Archives

Nara: Teaching With Documents: Petition of Amelia Bloomer Regarding Suffrage

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Amelia Bloomer was a prominent advocate of women's rights in the 19th century. She invented bloomers to replace the skirt hoop, in an effort to free women from much of their cumbersome apparel. She later used her newspaper, The Lily, to...
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Other

Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum: The Women's Suffrage Movement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two-part lesson plan teaches students about the impact of the Progressive Movement on women's suffrage. Students will learn about rights, reform, Woodrow Wilson, and the 19th Amendment. Links to related learning material for students and...
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US National Archives

National Archives: The Suffrage and the Civil Rights Reform Movements

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Two reform movements that changed American history - Women's Suffrage and the Civil Rights Movement. View two iconic pictures from these movements and compare and contrast them along with answering critical thinking questions.
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Ohio State University

Osu History Teaching Institute: Women's Suffrage, 1890 1920

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson uses primary sources to provide a discussion of women's suffrage.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Civil Rights Movement in America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Comprehensive resource focusing on the men and women who fought for civil rights. Extensive links to discussion questions, related information, timeline, and activities.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Inventive Women Part 1

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will learn about female inventors and their contributions to American technology.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Inst.: Women's Political Rights in Connecticut 1830 1980

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teachers and students alike can check out this site to learn about the women's suffrage movement in Connecticut. The brief history is followed by lesson plan suggestions.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Discontent and Transformation

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the discontent of housewives in the 1950's and the Southern Bell lawsuit for discrimination of women in the workplace. It includes a PDF lesson plan and two video clips.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Introduction to Activism

For Students 9th - 10th
This instructional activity takes a closer look at one of key activists in the women's, workers' and immigrants' rights movement in the 20th century.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Landmark Supreme Court Cases

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will analyze one of four Supreme Court cases that relate to the constitutional rights of women decided between 1908-2005. Students will become mini-experts on one Supreme Court cases and they will be exposed to the content,...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Afghanistan Unveiled (Lessons on Women's Roles in Afghanistan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Go directly to two lesson plans developed for a PBS documentary about the lives of women in Afghanistan filmed by Afghan journalism trainees. Use the lessons to have learners examine women's roles under the Taliban, new opportunities for...

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