As I hope you know, March is Women’s History Month.

I was all set to compile the most incredible link list of women’s history primary sources (Berenice Abbott’s NYC photographs! Zora Neale Hurston’s papers!), when I realized that what we really need in today’s world is information on how to teach women’s history.

And so, from a Colonial Women lesson plan to an Alice Paul vocabulary list game to exploring Anne Frank’s diary, here’s a list of resources for teaching women’s history.

1. The Open Educational Resources Project shares numerous international women’s history lessons plans, including Women in the Ancient World, Women in the Song Dynasty of China, 960-1279 CE, and A World Tour of Women’s Suffrage.

Women and Families in Classical Society, the OER Project.

2. The Alice Paul Center for Gender Justice in Mount Laurel, New Jersey features K-12 resources, including an Alice Paul coloring page, lesson plans, and in-person and virtual field trips.

3. America’s National Park Service provides “free education tools and materials for teachers, interpreters, students, and lifelong learners”. Their Teaching with Historic Places website shares lesson plans for women-focused historical sites such as former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s Val-Kill, Queen Liliuokalani’s Iolani Palace, and multiple women’s suffrage/19th amendment historical sites.

4. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum provides online tools for learning and teaching, including a lesson plan for Exploring Anne Frank’s Diary.

5. Curriculum content on The New York Historical’s Women and the American Story website goes way beyond just the story of New York, and covers American women’s history from the Earliest Encounters (1492 – 1734) through the end of the Twentieth Century 1977 – 2001.

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, Arrival of the Brides. Library and Archives Canada, via nyhistory.org.

6. For grades 4-6, the National Museum of the American Indian offers teaching resources and instructional poster of A Life in Beads: The Stories a Plains Dress Can Tell.

7. The National Women’s History Museum‘s Digital Classroom Resources includes 100 Kindergarten through College lesson plans including, Women, Propoganda, and War, Wilma Mankiller: Cherokee Leader, and Inventive Women, Part 1 and Part 2.

8. Whether you’re helping out an early learner, teaching elementary/middle/high school or are an adult learner or researcher yourself, the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum has quality online content. How about a Dolores del Río, African American Women Medical Professionals, or Dead Letter Office Conversation Kit?

Bessie Coleman, around 1924. National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

9. The National Council for History Education offers various webinars on American women’s history, focusing on the Revolutionary Era, World War I, and the Twentieth Century. “Participants will learn new strategies for introducing thess turning points in American history to their students.”

10. Facing History & Ourselves “uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to racism, antisemitism, and other forms of bigotry and hate.” Women’s history lessons include The Treatment of Edwardian Women, The Audacity of a Vote: Susan B. Anthony’s Arrest, and The Anti-lynching Activism of Ida B. Wells.

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