
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.
Lesson Plan
The Road to Suffrage
In this lesson, students will use the Suffrage Timeline to explore the women, ideas, and action that led to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920 and discuss the Woman Suffrage Movement as a model for peaceful activism.
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Lesson Plan
Rosie the Riveter
This lesson features a series of student-centered grouping strategies and discussion forums that utilize secondary sources. Students will be exposed to various sources that provide both the historical narrative relating to women during World War II.
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Lesson Plan
Women, Propaganda, and War
This lesson employs political posters and cartoons from the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II. The purpose is to determine how the government’s message changed throughout the three separate conflicts and the effect this had on women.
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Lesson Plan
Creating a Historical Thesis Statement
Using the History of Nursing Timeline and supplemental web resources, students will collate significant ideas and facts and write a cohesive thesis statement to introduce the assigned historical topic.
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Lesson Plan
Getting with the Program
Students will learn about the women who programmed ENIAC (the world’s first electronic computer), how computers work, and women’s job opportunities during World War II.
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Lesson Plan
Inventive Women - Part 2
Students will examine The Declaration of Sentiments from the perspective of its call for women’s economic equality.
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Lesson Plan
Inventive Women - Part 1
Students will learn about female inventors and their contributions to American technology.
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Lesson Plan
Primary Source
Primary Source
Primary Source
Political Cartoon: National American Woman Suffrage Association
Political cartoon about the National American Woman Suffrage Association' Annual Convention
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Primary Source
Primary Source
Primary Source
Political Cartoon: Votes for Women
Political Cartoon of Four Women who Directed the National Suffrage Fight
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Primary Source
Political Cartoon: Uncle Sam embracing a Nurse
If You are Good Enough for War you are Good Enough to Vote
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Lesson Plan
Who Do I Admire?
Who are our real life heroes? Students will learn and write about inspirational women.
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Video
Standing Up for Change: African American Women and the Civil Rights Movement
In the 20th century, African American women were integral leaders in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Video
Women Pioneers of Computer Programming
In the 1940's, the US Army hired six women mathematicians to operate the first electronic, digital computer.
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Video
Katherine Johnson and the Mathematics of the Space Race
Katherine Johnson worked for NASA as a "human computer," during the 1950's and '60's. Her work as a mathematician sent astronauts into space.
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General
Where are the Women?
The Museum researched the inclusion of women's history in all 50 states and the District of Columbia's social studies curriculums.
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