Teaching Resources for Women’s History Month

Looking for resources and teaching ideas for Women’s History Month? Check out these blog posts, classroom materials, and resources from the Library. You’ll find ideas that can support teaching and learning in different subjects (Science/STEM, Social Studies, English Language Arts) and across grade levels.

Teaching with the Library Blog Posts

Several posts from this blog highlight different ways that women have shaped society. The posts featured here include strategies for using primary sources as well as notable and engaging items from the Library’s collections.

• Women’s History Teaching Ideas for the K-5 Teacher
• Women’s History Month: Occupations and Contributions
• Women’s Involvement in History of Computer Science
• Women Documenting History
• Women in STEM
• Political Symbolism and Suffrage Cartoons

Classroom Materials

Primary source sets and presentations are curated groupings of primary sources about a topic or theme and include supports for teaching. Primary source sets include teaching ideas and a background essay. The presentation offers analysis questions that teachers can use to help their students engage with sources featured in the set.

• Women Suffrage Primary Source Set
• Women in Science and Technology Primary Source Set
• Voters and Voting Rights presentation

Library-wide Resources

A previous exhibit as well as two digital collections are excellent resources for learning about aspects of the Women’s suffrage campaign. And Chronicling America offers two guides to help readers locate a sampling of historical newspaper articles related to Women’s History Month and Women’s Studies.

• Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote (exhibit) 
• National American Women’s Suffrage Collection
• Women’s Suffrage in Sheet Music
• Topics in Chronicling America (historical newspapers through 1963)
  • Guides by monthly observances: Women’s History Month
  • Guides by subject: Women’s Studies

If you use any of the resources, we’d love to hear about it. Share your ideas for using them in the comments!

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