Honoring Women

Awesome Women
Social Studies/History During National Women's History Month, send your students to the library and the computer to research famous women. At the same time, have them gather information from newspapers and news magazines to produce a scrapbook of famous women who are in the news right now. Also send them into the community to find out about local women who are doctors, lawyers, CEOs etc. Invite some of those women to your classroom for a panel discussion about how they have gotten to their positions. Who influenced them most? What mark do they hope to leave on their professions and communities? What advice do they have to offer to your students?

Women Who Changed History
Includes lesson plans, online activities, teaching strategies, and student activities for Women's History Month.

Harriet Tubman Day
History During your celebration of Women's History Month, read about Harriet Tubman, who has a day of celebration in the state of New York on March 10. Go to www2.lhric.org to see some wonderful work done by a second grade class. It includes a timeline, a vocabulary quilt, crossword puzzles and a quiz. Get some ideas for making your own class an educational website.

National Women's History Project
Having begun in 1980, this non-profit organization acts as a clearinghouse for general women's history information. This site is filled with ideas, book lists, and lesson plans for teachers.

Female Power
Social Studies/History During Women's History Month take your students on a virtual tour of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum at airandspace.si.edu and see the achievements made by women in the industry. Also, go to www.ameliaearhart.com for a great biography of the woman who pioneered in air flight.

Women of Accomplishment: An Internet Scavenger Hunt
This month, expand your students' knowledge about the many ways in which women sustain the American spirit by posing a question a day about women's history! Included: Links to sites detailing the accomplishments of 23 remarkable American women.