Digital Classroom Resources

By dividing Sally Hemings' life into four major stages, students will encounter the difficult choices forced upon enslaved women by an evil institution.

Students will explore the women of NASA and identify and analyze their key contributions to the field of aeronautics.

Lesson plan on Martha Hughes Cannon, the first female state senator in U.S. history.

Lesson plan that allows students to interview the staff at any historic site that focuses on women’s contributions to the past

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), proposed in 1923, has never been ratified. Activists seeking gender equality have sought its ratification since its first proposal but have encountered resistance along the way.

Students analyze maps and primary documents and share stories of the Westward Expansion relating to gaining women’s suffrage.