Women's History Month 2024
Curated resources from your OS social studies team
2024 Theme: Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Events & Opportunities
Women's History Month Educator Workshop at the DIA
- Saturday, March 2, 2024
- 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
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Women's History Month Events at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation
- March 1-31, 2024
- 9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
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Self-Guided Tours from the Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council
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Articles and Videos for Teacher Learning
Classroom Resources
Featured Inquiry Lesson from MC3
K-5 Resources
PBS Learning Media: Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
In this clip and related activities, Yadina and her friends travel back in time to meet Helen Keller who helps them understand there are many different ways to learn. Use these resources to highlight Helen’s many accomplishments and inspire your students to keep trying, even when things are difficult.
Helen Keller Video
Helen Keller Reader
Exploring the Qualities of a Hero
6-8 Resources
- Who is Malala Yousafzai? from the ADL
- Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill: The Power of Symbols from the ADL (Note: uses the word “slave” instead of the preferred term “enslaved)
- Student Dress Codes: What’s Fair? from the ADL (also in 9-12)
- Women’s History Month for the Classroom from the NEA
- Background on Woman Suffrage from Stanford History Education Group
- Explore the History of Voting Rights in America from iCivics Dive into voting rights! Our latest customizable Google Slide Deck that provides an overview of voting in the U.S. from the 19th amendment and beyond— exploring the evolution of voting and how disenfranchised groups gained the right to vote.
- Students and the Struggle for School Integration from iCivics
- DocsTeach’s enormous Women’s Rights collection
- PBS Learning Media's Teaching Women's Suffrage collection
- Slide Deck created by Michigan Supreme Court Learning Center, features Justice Mary S. Coleman, the first woman to serve on the state's highest court. It focuses on her early life using primary sources (historical images and oral history). Reflection questions encourage students to see how her life can inspire behaviors that help them to achieve.
- Center for Civic Education Women's History Month Podcasts and Videos
- Unladylike2020 from PBS LearningMedia
9-12 Resources
- Shirley Chisolm: Unbought, Unbossed and Unforgotten from the ADL
- Women’s Suffrage, Racism and Intersectionalisty from the ADL
- Student Dress Codes: What’s Fair? from the ADL (also in 6-8)
- The Gender Wage Gap from the ADL
- Six Essays on Women’s History from Facing History & Ourselves
- Women’s History Month for the Classroom from the NEA
- Background on Woman Suffrage from Stanford History Education Group
- PBS Learning Media's Teaching Women's Suffrage collection
- Students and the Struggle for School Integration from iCivics
- DocsTeach’s enormous Women’s Rights collection
- Slide Deck created by Michigan Supreme Court Learning Center, features Justice Mary S. Coleman, the first woman to serve on the state's highest court. It focuses on her early life using primary sources (historical images and oral history). Reflection questions encourage students to see how her life can inspire behaviors that help them to achieve.
- Center for Civic Education Women's History Month Podcasts and Videos
- Unladylike2020 from PBS LearningMedia
Lesson Plans from the National Women's History Museum
Ida B. Wells: Suffragist and Anti-Lynching Activist
Dolores Huerta and the Delano Grape Strike
Red Power Prevails: The Activism, Spirit, and Resistance of Native American Women
Students utilize primary and secondary accounts to examine and explain the significance of women-led activism in the fight for Native liberation and sovereignty as they explore the question: How has the activism of Native American women contributed to fights for the liberation of Native people and communities?
More Resource Collections
Click above to check out the National Park Service's Commemorations and Celebrations!
Women & the American Story (WAMS) is a free curriculum website from the New-York Historical Society. WAMS connects educators with classroom resources that illuminate diverse women’s contributions to the American past.
Rediscover the complex life and legacy of the author, advocate and human rights pioneer. Helen Keller (1880-1968), who was deaf and blind since childhood, used her celebrity and wit to advocate for social justice, particularly for women, workers, people with disabilities, and people living in poverty.
All the videos and support materials in this collection incorporate accessibility features including ASL interpretation, descriptive transcripts, extended audio description, closed captioning, alternative text descriptions for primary source images, and accessible text-based handouts.
Visit this resource to learn more about the tools utilized to help make the film Becoming Helen Keller accessible for people who are blind or have limited vision, are deaf or partially deaf, or a combination of both.
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