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Women's Suffrage profile Photos Interactives Lesson Plans
Did you know that women in Quebec didn't achieve full suffrage until 1940? This site for kids includes a history of suffrage, an interactive map where you can find out when women got the right to vote in countries around the world, and a first person account of women's suffrage from Effie Hobb. Source: Scholastic Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: Elementary/Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes

Votes for Women profile Photos Lesson Plans
You'll find primary source materials from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 housed at the Library of Congress along with suggested teaching strategies that focus on history, critical thinking and the arts and humanities at this site. Source: Library of Congress American Memory Collection Intended Audience: Teachers Reading Level: Varies Teacher Section: N/A Searchable: Yes

Women of Protest profile Photos
You'll find 448 images that document the National Woman’s Party’s push for ratification of the 19th Amendment as well as its later campaign for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. You'll also find essays and a timeline of events. Source: Library of Congress American Memory Collection Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Varies Teacher Section: N/A Searchable: Yes

The Fight for Women's Suffrage profile Photos Video
You'll find articles, images and video that focus on women's history and suffrage at this site. Source: History Channel Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: Yes

Women's Rights National Park profile Photos Video Interactives Lesson Plans
Learn more about the first Women's Rights Convention and the women's rights movement. Source: National Park Service Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes

Women's History Month profile Photos Video Interactives Lesson Plans
While not specifically about women's suffrage, this site has articles, historical front pages from the New York Times about key moments in women's history, lesson plans and more. Source: New York Times Learning Network Intended Audience: Teachers/Students Reading Level: Middle/High School Teacher Section: N/A Searchable: Yes

National Women's Hall of Fame profile Photos
Do you know who Fannie Lou Hamer, Brigadier General Wilma Vaught, or Dorothea Dix are?  Learn more these and other women who helps shape our history! Source: National Women's Hall of Fame Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: Yes

National Women's History Project profile Photos
Read biographies of influential women, learn about the women's rights movement, or test your Women’s History I.Q. Source: National Women's History Project Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No

PBSNot For Ourselves Alone profile Photos Video Interactives Lesson Plans
Learn more about the fight for women's suffrage at this companion site to the Ken Burns' documentary about Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. A special section for kids includes a history game and notes for the teacher,
Source: PBS Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No


Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership profile Photos
Check out the Suffrage History section of this site for information about Susan B. Anthony and the Women's suffrage movement, including brief biographies of key figures..
Source: University of Rochester Intended Audience: General Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No

19th Amendment profile Photos
You can view the actual 19th Amendment, get a transcript and download a hi-res PDF copy.
Source: National Archives Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes

Women's Suffrage Crossword Puzzle
Try your hand at this quiz by the crossword puzzle master, Will Shortz. Source: NY Times Learning Network

 

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19th Amendment
Collection of activities and other resources to help the classroom teacher celebrate the ratification of the 19th Amendment in the classroom. Source: Read Write Think

19th Amendment
Background information, vocabulary, and a lesson plan designed for the teacher. Source: Scholastic

Teaching With Documents:
Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment

You'll find primary source documents teaching activities, worksheets, and a script commissioned by the National Archives celebrating the 75th anniversary of the 19th amendment all designed to expose student to the struggle for women's suffrage. Source: National Archives

Women's Suffrage
Collection of teaching resources including national history standards, and links to primary source materials and video. Source: Maryland State Archives

Suffrage Strategies: Voices for Votes - Gr. 3-8
Students examine a variety of primary source documents related to the women's suffrage movement. They identify different methods people used to influence and change attitudes and beliefs about suffrage for women. Students then create original documents encouraging citizens to vote in current elections. Source: Library of Congress

Voting Rights for Women: Pro- and Anti-Suffrage
Working in groups student use primary source materials and engage in a point/counterpoint discussion based on a position as expressed in a particular document. Source: EdSitement

Who Were the Foremothers of Women's Equality?
Students encounter major figures in the woman's rights movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries in important documents and other primary and secondary materials. Source: EdSitement

Women's Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs
Students analyze archival cartoons, posters, magazine humor, newspaper articles and poems that reflect the deeply entrenched attitudes and beliefs the early crusaders for women's rights had to overcome. Source: EdSitement

Women's Suffrage: Why the West First?
Students compile information to examine hypotheses explaining why the first nine states to grant full voting rights for women were located in the West. Source: EdSitement

Women's Fight for the Vote: The Nineteenth Amendment
You'll find essential questions and reading materials including press coverage of passage of the 19th Amendment at this site that is intended for law students, but that could be used with high school students. Source: University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

Women: Stride Towards Freedom Gr-7-8
In this unit, students explore the rise of the women's movement in the late seventeen and eighteen hundreds. Source: Yale-New Haven Teacher's Institute