About This Unit

SUBJECT
Research Skills, Reading, Writing, Women's Suffrage, Women's Rights Movement

GRADE
1-8

DURATION
13 Class Periods

COLLECTION
Women's History Collection

Women's Suffrage

Scholastic's Women's Suffrage unit allows your students to learn about the quest by women around the world to win the right to vote. Students will read background information while building their vocabulary skills. Students will also explore and analyze maps and dates as well as have a chance to make a personal connection by reading a firsthand account of a woman who voted for the first time in 1920.

OBJECTIVE

Students will:

  1. Discover the history behind women's suffrage
  2. Develop vocabulary related civics and citizenship
  3. Explore world and U.S. maps
  4. Draw conclusions about patterns in women suffrage dates
  5. Make personal connections to suffrage history

LESSONS FOR THIS UNIT
Lesson 1: Women's Suffrage for Grades 1-2
Lesson 2: Women's Suffrage for Grades 3-5
Lesson 3: Women's Suffrage for Grades 6-8

REPRODUCIBLES
Voting Dates Fact Sheet (PDF)

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