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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Breaking Barriers: Women’s Basketball Documents

Lesson Plan

Landmark Supreme Court Cases

Landmark Supreme Court Cases Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan

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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Letter from Clara Barton

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Letter from Susan B. Anthony

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Letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe with Photo

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Archives: NWHM's First Newsletter

NWHM's First Newsletter

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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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