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Lesson Plan
National First Ladies' Library

Gibson Girls and Flappers: What is this "New Woman"?

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students divide into five groups with each exploring one section of the website, "The New Woman". After they complete their research, they discuss the nature and characteristics of the "new woman" and compare these to characteristics of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

ERA: Its Effect on U.S. Society

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students student the goals of the ERA movement as it attempted to advance women's rights. They examine its goals, gains, and shortcomings.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Women: Stride Toward Freedom

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students read facts about women'ts suffrage and research topics related to women's rights. Optional films for viewing and books to read.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Counterculture, Women's Movement, and the Environmental Movement

For Students 8th - 12th
In this contemporary U. S. history worksheet, students read articles about the counterculture, Women's Movement, and the Environmental Movement. Students then respond to 19 short answer questions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Early Suffragists

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young scholars research early suffragists in an effort to find the most influential leader of the movement. They give presentations and the class chooses a winner. They write letters to the postmaster suggesting they be placed on a stamp.
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Lesson Plan
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 lesson, learners gain understanding of women and history through various primary...
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Lesson Plan
University of California

History Project: Ideas and Strategies of the Woman Suffrage Movement

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This middle school lesson focuses on the women's suffrage movement. Provided is detailed background information followed by excerpts from eleven early twentieth-century primary source documents, along with questions to help middle...
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Website
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Beginnings of the Movement: Abolition and Early Women's Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
How was the anti-slavery movement tightly connected with women's right to vote? Explore the efforts of women abolitionists, who realized that "the injustice they wanted to remedy for blacks also applied to women." Primary texts at this...
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Website
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: The Legal Staus of Women in Texas, 1909

For Students 9th - 10th
Suffragist Mrs. W.B. Wynne published "The Legal Status of Woman in Texas" as part of her fight for women's rights. Check out images of the original document, a portrait of Wynne, and a brief commentary.
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: The New Woman

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set illustrates the New Woman movement's ideals, the women who embraced it, and a society made uncomfortable by this seismic shift in the roles of men and women.