Feb 24 2009
The Best Sites For Learning About Women’s History
March is Women’s History Month in the United States so I thought I’d prepare another “The Best…” list.
I usually have my U.S. History students make a poster about a well-known woman in history as well as a woman who they have known personally and who they admire.
As with all the sites on my lists, they need to be accessible to English Language Learners.
Here are my choices for The Best Sites For Learning About Women’s History, not in order of any preference. Unless I’ve noted otherwise, these sites are all primarily resources for accessible biographies of famous women:
* The Children’s Encyclopedia Of Women
* National Women’s Hall of Fame
* National Women’s History Project
* Scholastic’s Women Who Changed History
* The Encyclopedia Britannica has a section called 300 Women Who Changed The World.
* Spartacus International: USA History — Women’s Suffrage
* The History Channel’s Women’s History Month site, which also includes a lot of multimedia resources.
* The National Educational Association has many resources for Women’s History Month, including lesson plans.
* Time For Kids Women’s History Month
* MSNBC slideshow on U.S. Women Leaders
* The Smithsonian has an online exhibition called Women Of Our Time. It focuses on influential women of the twentieth century.
* The California Museum has a Remarkable Women Trail feature on its website. A display of a map of California shows images of remarkable women. Click on one of them, and you get an accessible biography, images, and videos. Visitors to the site can also submit information about other women they think should be included.
* Women’s Rights: A Pictorial History is from Awesome Stories, and is very accessible to English Language Learners. It looks like you can view this feature without subscribing, but it’s free to subscribe anyway.
Milpitas Chat shares a number of good online ESL lessons related to Women’s History.
International Women’s Day occurs every March 8th. Here is a series of photos from The Sacramento Bee showing how it is celebrated around the world.
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