 Women's History Month
Every year March is designated Women’s History Month by Presidential proclamation. The month is set aside to honor women’s contributions in history. Women’s History Month started as Women’s History Week and began as a local celebration in Santa Rosa, California in 1978. The organizers selected the week of March 8 to correspond with International Women’s Day. Other communities across the country then initiated their own Women’s History Week celebrations the following year. In February 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued the first Presidential Proclamation declaring the Week of March 8th 1980 as National Women’s History Week.
To learn more, visit https://www.womenshistory.org/womens-history/womens-history-month. Here are some digital resources where you can find lesson plans, videos, primary sources, posters, and more that you can preview, research, and explore.
Additional Resources
PBS Documentary- Unladylike 2020
Illuminating the stories of extraordinary American heroines from the early years of feminism, Unladylike2020 is a multimedia series consisting of a one-hour special for broadcast (Unladylike2020: The Changemakers) and 26 digital short films featuring courageous, little-known and diverse female trailblazers from the turn of the 20th century.
The women featured in this documentary achieved many firsts, including earning an international pilot’s license, becoming a bank president, founding a hospital, fighting for the desegregation of public spaces, exploring the Arctic, opening a film studio, and singing opera at Carnegie Hall.
Unladylike2020’s digital content is a way to engage middle and high school classrooms in U.S. history and women’s history. Lesson plans are published on PBS LearningMedia, public television’s educational platform.
Learn More: https://unladylike2020.com/lesson-plans/
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PBS/APTV Digital Series on Women: They Dared!
Alabama Public Television presents They Dared! a digital series highlighting women trailblazers from Alabama. The series celebrates their strength, determination, contributions, and impact on American history and culture. Below are a few of the women who were featured:
Adella Hunt Logan was an African American activist, educator and suffragist. She saw universal suffrage as the path to universal education and social equity, organizing and writing on behalf of the right to vote for all.
Pattie Ruffner Jacobs became most notable for her efforts to gain women's right to vote. She researched extensively to become a tactical legislative lobbyist, steadily becoming one of the suffrage movements most compelling and versatile speakers.
Amelia Boynton Robinson- Did you know Martin Luther King Jr. was invited to Selma by Amelia Boynton Robinson, who had been organizing locally for justice decades before his arrival in the 1960s?
Virginia Foster Durr- Throughout her life she dedicated herself to the fight for social justice. From works with Eleanor Roosevelt to helping bail out Rosa Parks after her infamous arrest when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus.
Dr. Gwendolyn Patton was active in desegregation, voting rights, anti-war and anti-draft movement as well as a teacher and theorist in the black freedom struggle.
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Next Generation Personal Finance (NGPF)
All month long, Next Generation Personal Finance (NGPF) has been celebrating Women’s History Month and has some resources and events that you can utilize in your classroom to join in on the celebration:
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Upcoming Virtual PDs
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Themed QoDs (Question of the Day)- Did you know we send daily Questions of the Day as part of our blog? The questions are great bits of trivia and knowledge for your students and are always timely and relevant. This month, we’ve centered our questions around boss women, like Rihanna.
Check out more QoDs here!
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FinCapFridays are a great way to bring current events into the classroom. Check out these women-centric FCFs to celebrate WHM!
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Podcasts are a great asynchronous resource for teaching. Check out the podcasts below that highlight women in finance!
Not sure how to incorporate podcasts into your classroom? Check out our Podcasts in the Classroom series for podcast + activities! For Women's History Month, we have:
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Carolina Navigators
Carolina Navigators aims to make quality resources easily available to K-14 educators to integrate global education into all areas of the curriculum, and to help prepare all North Carolina K-14 students to become informed and effective members of our global community. They support K-14 students in digging deeper into global issues, cultures, and languages, and push them to go on beyond the single story.
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C3 Inquiries
C3 Teachers publishes inquiries through their work on the New York State Social Studies K-12 Resource Toolkit project.
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Go Open NC
Explore the library of open education resources and join a network of North Carolina educators who are dedicated to using high quality, openly-licensed educational resources.
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Edsitement
Edsitement is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Trust for the Humanities. EDSITEment offers free resources for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality K-12 humanities education materials in the subject areas of history and social studies, literature and language arts, foreign languages, arts, and culture
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EVERFI: Celebrating Women’s History Month
Women’s History Month is a time to honor extraordinary women and their achievements, struggles, and triumphs throughout history. Celebrate and recognize the contributions women have made by incorporating these lesson ideas.
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NCSS Resources for Women's History Month
These articles from the National Council for the Social Studies' magazine, Social Education, Middle Level Learning, and Social Studies and the Young Learner, features resources for use in your classroom for Women's History Month and year-round.
Access them here.
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