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Chronicling and Mapping the Women's Suffrage Movement Lesson PlanChronicling and Mapping the Women's Suffrage Movement Lesson Plan
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6th - 12th
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Chronicling and Mapping the Women's Suffrage Movement

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While women's suffrage is often believed to be the result of a single constitutional amendment, the effort of women to secure the vote spanned decades and continents. Using primary sources in online archives, class members explore the movement with structured worksheets. Videos and prompts help them understand the significance of the women's movement.

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Concepts

famous women, women's history, women's rights, women's suffrage, women's movements, suffrage, the suffrage movement, constitutional amendments, primary source analysis, primary source images, primary sources

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Create a WebQuest for primary sources to explore women's suffrage
  • Have pupils create a story board about women's suffrage in the United States 

Classroom Considerations

  • Learners need Internet access to complete the included activities
  • Some links do not work, but it does not compromise the lesson

Pros

  • Primary sources are easy to adapt for other activities
  • Resources develop primary source analysis skills

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Common Core

RH.6-8.1 RH.6-8.2 RH.6-8.3 RH.6-8.7 RH.6-8.9 RH.6-8.10 RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.3 RH.9-10.7 RH.9-10.9 RH.9-10.10 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.3 RH.11-12.7 RH.11-12.9 RH.11-12.10

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