Digital Classroom Resources
Explore classroom-ready resources created by the Museum and through the "For Educators, by Educators" initiative. There are lesson plans, biographies, posters, primary sources, and more. You can search by topic, theme, or resource type.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: An Agent of Social Change
Eleanor Roosevelt redefined the role of the First Lady as an agent of social change. Eleanor helped to create The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which remains one of her greatest legacies.
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Breaking Barriers: Women’s Basketball Documents
Breaking Barriers: Women’s Basketball Documents
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Sally Hemings
By dividing Sally Hemings' life into four major stages, students will encounter the difficult choices forced upon enslaved women by an evil institution.
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Breaking Through Gender Roles
Students will explore the women of NASA and identify and analyze their key contributions to the field of aeronautics.
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Archives: Here's the Rest of the Story
NWHM's Press Release on the Creation of the CyberMuseum
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Archives: Resolution Regarding the Restoration of the Portrait Monument
Resolution Regarding the Restoration of the Portrait Monument
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Martha Hughes Cannon
Lesson plan on Martha Hughes Cannon, the first female state senator in U.S. history.
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Utilizing Historic Sites for National History Day Research
Lesson plan that allows students to interview the staff at any historic site that focuses on women’s contributions to the past
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The Path to Women’s Suffrage
Students analyze maps and primary documents and share stories of the Westward Expansion relating to gaining women’s suffrage.
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The Equal Rights Amendment
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.
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