Curated OER
Stand Up and Sing
Students locate historical references in songs. They create music/lyrics to illustrate an historical topic.
Curated OER
Rachel Carson
In this famous person activity, students read a passage about Rachel Carson and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym...
Curated OER
Round Dance
Third graders will participate in a dance activity for physical fitness. The learn a social dance that has an origin with the Canadian Aboriginal People. The use of tribal music will make the lesson more culturally relevant.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 7: Women's Rights Movement
Read and study the sources about the women's rights movement. As you read the four sources, think about the influences on and goals of the women's rights movement during the 1800s.
Other
Library Bulletin: Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement
A comprehensive list of books and documents available in the University of Rochester Rare Books and Special Collections exhibit of 1995. Brief summaries of the books, documents and their authors are available at this site.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: The American Civil Rights Movement: An Overview
Given primary and secondary resources, students will be able to trace the historical development of the civil rights movement in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, and describe the roles of political organizations that promoted civil...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Opposition to the Women's Rights Movement
A learning module that begins with "Opposition to the Women's Rights Movement" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Women's Rights
A comprehensive learning module on women's rights that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and primary source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include the women's suffrage...
US Department of State
America.gov: Seneca Falls Convention Began Women's Rights Movement
Learn about the convention that not only paved the way for women's rights but also lead to women's suffrage. This article describes the political climate that motivated Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and other proponents of...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Women's Sphere and the Emergence of the Women's Rights Movement
This article focuses on American women in the 19th century and the movement from a domestic ideology to the emergence of feminism.
US House of Representatives
History, Art, and Archives: The Women's Rights Movement, 1848 1920
Many groups and women leaders worked tirelessly to advance women's rights in society, specifically the right to vote. This tireless effort paid off with the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920. Examine the early strides in the women's...
Scholastic
Scholastic: A Brief History of Women's Rights Movements
Find a history of the several movements that advocated for women's rights in voting, politics, and at work.
Other
Student Historical Journal 1984 1985: Women's Rights Before the Civil War [Pdf]
Read an overview of the pre-Civil War women's rights movement in a student essay in an historical journal from Loyola University. Find out about specific activists prominent during this time period and learn about their attempts to...
Virginia Tech
Dhr: How Did Abolitionism Lead to the Struggle for Women's Rights?
Online learning experience consists of a self-contained module focussing on abolitionism and the struggle for women's rights. The module includes an introduction outlining the module objectives and historical questions, background...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Women in the Civil Rights Movement
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Other
Aclu: Women's Rights
This resource contains a summary of the role of the ACLU in gaining women's rights in a variety of areas. Informative timeline is available.
Library of Congress
Loc: Votes for Women: Suffrage Pictures 1850 1920
This extensive and varied resource shares images of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. Conduct a keyword search to explore the collection.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Seneca Falls Convention
Students will examine primary sources about the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 to understand why a women's rights movement was necessary to gain greater rights for women.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Gloria Steinem
Biographical profile of Gloria Steinem, journalist, feminist, and passionate leader and spokeswoman of the women's rights movement in the late 20th century.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: The Women's Rights Movement
Internet based activity for high school students about the women's rights movement. Connected with a textbook series but could be used by anyone. Nice, self-contained activity.
University of Virginia
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: The Woman's Rights Movement
Read about the 19th century women's reform movement as well as primary resources including the Seneca Falls Declaration & Resolutions, an editorial by Frederick Douglass, and excerpts form "History of Woman Suffrage."
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1848: Women's Rights and the Seneca Falls Convent
The first women's rights movement advocated equal rights for white women by leveraging abolitionist and Second Great Awakening sentiment.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Timeline: Civil Rights Movement
Explore this timeline of women in the Civil Rights movement.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Report of the Women's Rights Convention
Complete proceedings of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention advocating women's rights.
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