Study ideas for Women's History Month, the public celebration of women's history in March
Women's History
Posted by: Lori #89946
I focus on women's history across the grade levels at my school. We read books and do a huge bullentin board timeline and add the women to it. For first graders you might try
Wilma Rudolph -- I have a great lesson plan on her, might be a bit much for first, but I bet you could adapt it. -- Wilma Unlimited is a great book.
Annie Oakley
Maria Mitchell -- good picture book Maria's Comet by Deborah Hopkinson
Harriet Tubman -- lots of picture book bios
Emily Dickenson -- picture book Emily by Michael Bedard ?sp
Zora Neale Hurston -- there is a picture book story by William Miller
Also, if you go to the archive link above and type in Women's History you will find some posts from previous years. A few are mine. I don't have time to go into great detail now, and I have to help m...
Because March is Women's History Month, I do a big unit with my students on important women in history. They research women from different time periods and prepare multi-media presentations showing their findings. I also have them complete a project about a famous woman from their history. They have to identify a woman from their family, church, school, etc. who has played a major role in their life and create a poster displaying information about the woman and why she is important to them.
Women's history
Posted by: Lori 2 #29385
With my daughter's girl scout troop, each girl chose a woman and portrayed her. In a school situation with both boys and girls, I have toyed with the idea of having a "talk show or news show" with one of the boys as an anchor and other boys interviewing each of the women at the "scene." I have used this format before with characters from literature, famous men in the wars (women, too, there just aren't many of them), inventors and scientists, African-Americans for Black History month, etc.
Some of the women that I have a monologue for are:
Wilma Rudolph -- can also get info from the book Wilma Unlimited
Barbara McClintock -- geneticist -- discovered that genes hop
We use the picture book Dinner at Aunt Connie's by Faith Ringgold. In the story, the little girl's aunt is a painter, and each year, she has an exhibition.The paintings in the gallery the day she visits are all famous women in black history. Some are well known like Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks, and others are less well-known.My kids used the internet to research these women (and the author, Faith Ringgold). Then, they made their own portraits of these women and we are displaying them on a bulletin board outside our classroom. Have fun!
Women's History
Posted by: Ann #54842
Last year I cut up a calendar and a date book of famous women and put the pictures and blurbs about the women on card paper and arranged it on my bulletin board. It was quite the conversation piece in my classroom for the few weeks it was up. The kids took time to stop and check out the women - I tried to put up a wide array from women in sports to artists to politicians and I made sure to include as many races as were available in the calendars. I would love to hear about ideas for students to add to or do their own bulletin board.
Girl theme
Posted by: Lori #77745
HI,
As the mom of two girls who are into just about everything -- I often call them the Wonder Women! YOu could do some sort of take on the Super Hero theme but use real life women examples and posters around the room. Then take pictures of your girls and place them on posters with accomplishments, hopes, dreams, etc written on them for your own Wonder Women Wall or bullentin board.
Sports -- Wilma Rudolph (Great Book tie in -- Wilma Unlimited by Kathleen Krull -- would work great with the Olympics taking place in Athens -- I have lesson plans for this book)
Here's another one with a book tie-in. The young woman's name was Jackie something -- I can't remember right now but the picture book is Mighty Jackie the Strike-out Queen by Marissa Moss (I think) -- She played minor league ...
I'm doing a bulletin board entitled "Marching Through Women's History" in honor of National Women's History Month. My students are creating a huge time line and are researching women throughout history. We have collected pictures from various magazines and Internet sources and the kids are writing a short bio for each featured woman. They are also creating question cards to display along the outside of the bulletin board asking various questions about the featured women, how to read the time line, etc. Good way to review purposes for writing, literary genres, time lines, famous women and make a great display! And yes, it does incorporate math, with the time line. Maybe this will help!
Women's History
Posted by: Lori 2 #29387
Hi Mary,
The monologues I have are copyrighted so I can't post them. They came from books put out by the American Association of University Women. The books are called Profiles of Women Past and Present Volumes 1 and 2. I didn't think about the copyright when I posted before -- too late for my brain to function. I will post some of the information on each woman. Perhaps then you can divide your class into interview partners to do a bit of research on the woman they are interested in. The interviewer needs to do research, too. If you can't find any further information on the person, let me know and I will try to send you some. These are the women covered in the books I mentioned.
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) America's First Woman Physician
