Learn about these amazing women and how they influenced our history (including women's history) in their own unique way.
Important dates:
- March 8 – International Women's Day
- Women's History Month begins on March 1 and ends on March 31
- October 11 – International Day of the Girl Child
International Women's Day is celebrated on the 8th of March every year around the world. It is a focal point in the movement for women's rights.
In the United States, President Barack Obama proclaimed March 2011 to be “Women's History Month”, calling Americans to mark IWD by reflecting on “the extraordinary accomplishments of women” in shaping the country's history.
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Her Story in History
This study has five pages and it's designed to help you teach elementary, middle, or high school students all about important women in US history.
Includes in PDF format:
- Cover Page
- Introduction page
- Directions
- Guiding Questions
- List of 50 women in history
Cover Page
Print this out and put it in your history binder. For extra credit, prepare a report on each of the women on the cover. They are Amelia Earhart and Sojourner Truth.
Introduction page
This page introduces parents and teachers to the packet and gives tips on how to use it.
Directions
Give this direction page to the student, as it includes a background of the assignment and specific instructions on how to complete it.
Guiding Questions
Guiding questions are questions provided to students, either in writing or spoken verbally, while they are working on a task. Asking guiding questions allows students to move to higher levels of thinking by providing more open-ended support that calls students' attention to key details without being prescriptive.
Asking questions that have many possible answers and require research and analysis.
Click here to download this printable.
List of 50 women in history
- Pocahontas
- Susan B Anthony
- Louisa May Alcott
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Margaret Mead
- Julia Child
- Nancy Reagan
- Maya Angelou
- Hillary R. Clinton
- Ann Bancroft
- Abigail Adams
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Jane Adams
- Helen Keller
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Rosa Parks
- Maria Tallchief
- Harper Lee
- Sally Ride
- Maya Lin
- Sacagawea
- Clara Barton
- Juliette Gordon Low
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Rachel Carson
- Barbara McClintock
- Barbara Bush
- Barbara Walters
- Oprah Winfrey
- Michelle Obama
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Annie Jump Cannon
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- Gertrude Elion
- Coretta Scott King
- Dian Fossey
- Sonia Sotomayor
- Serena Williams
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Emily Dickinson
- Nellie Bly
- Amelia Earhart
- Lucille Ball
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Patsy Takemoto Mink
- Gloria Steinem
- Condoleezza Rice
- Misty Copeland
To continue learning, check out the Harriet Movie Study.
Additional Reading:
- Hardcover Book
- Halligan, Katherine (Author)
- Used Book in Good Condition
- Waisman, Charlotte S. (Author)
- Koeppel, Kari (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Hardcover Book
- Shen, Ann (Author)
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