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Women's History Month Lesson Plans

March is Women's History Month! We're celebrating with new lesson plans featuring audiobooks about extraordinary women of science, aviation, sports, and more.
 

Grades: 3-5

Subject: Reading and Language Arts

Title: Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes
Theme: Overcoming Obstacles
Duration: 45 minute class session

Grades: 6-8

Subject: Reading and Language Arts

Title: Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium by Carla Killough McClafferty
Theme: Women’s History
Duration: One class session
Title: The Double Life of Pocahontas by Jean Fritz
Theme: Women’s History
Duration: Two class sessions
Title: The World at Her Fingertips: The Story of Helen Keller by Joan Dash
Theme: Women’s History
Duration: One class session
Title: Character Analysis in Mickey & Me by Dan Gutman
Theme: Fact and Fiction with Females in Baseball
Duration: 45 minute class session

Subject: Science

Title: Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium by Carla Killough McClafferty
Theme: Women’s History
Duration: One class session

Subject: Social Studies

Title: 16 Extraordinary American Women by Emma Hahn
Theme: Appreciating Famous American Women
Duration: 2 class periods
Title: The Breadwinner: An Afghan Child in a War Torn Land by Deborah Ellis
Theme: Afghan Women and Girls
Duration: One class session
Title: Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World by Cynthia Chin-Lee
Theme: Timeline of History
Duration: Three class sessions
Title: Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
Theme: Chinese Culture
Duration: Two class sessions

Grades: 9-12

Subject: Social Studies

Title: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
Theme: Women’s History
Duration: Two class sessions