Celebrate National Women's History Month
March is National Women's History Month
It's more than 100 years since the suffragists
Marched on Washington, DC. Suffragists faced a long hard road to equality, even some
women opposed equal rights. Learn all about the women's movement for the right to vote at the National Archives.
Parent and Kid Activites for National Women's History Month:
Visit the Women's Right National
Historical Park
Located in Seneca Fall, New York. It commemorates
the first Woman's Right's Convention in 1848 where woman's rights
leaders: Elizabth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Martha White, Mary Ann
McClinttock and Jane Hunt met. Ms. Stanton's house became the
headquarters for the women's rights movement.
Visit an
Art Museum
See famous women Artist's work such as paintings
by Elizebeth
Virgee-LeBrun and Georgia O\'Keeffe, and Mary
Cassatt.
Visit the Eleanor Roosevelt National
Historic Site
Located in Hyde Park New York. This is the home of the
President and Mrs. Roosevelt, it is called Val-Kill. This home is window
into the private and public for Eleanor Roosevelt who was an important
spokes person for the poor and unfortunate who suffered through-out the
depression. She was also an out-spoken women right's advocate and
political leader.
Go to the The Kennedy Space Center in
Florida be sure to go to the Astronaut's hallof Fame and Museum to
learn all about the women in space exploration.
Watch the
PBS Special
It about the Abolitionist about women who were
vital in the anti-slavery movement.Grab the popcorn and
the family for watching movies about female heroines:Norma
Rae, Silkwood, Erin Brockovich.
Books
to Read:
If You Lived
When Women Won Their Rights - 4th grade reading level
Girls Who Rocked the World: Heroines from Joan of Arc to Mother Teresa
Dinner discussion questions to get the conversation
started:
">Why should boys/men care about woman's rights?
Do you think a woman will be
elected president?
Do we have woman hero's in our family?