Can you recommend activities for teaching about the women’s suffrage movement in elementary school?

Nancy Gallavan

Teaching and learning about the women’s suffrage movement is a favorite experience for me. My grandmother voted in the first election open to women. Then I voted in the first election open to 18-year-olds.

I recommend:

• Creating time lines to show the progression of voting throughout U.S. history and geography.
• Developing other graphic organizers to illustrate requirements for voting, finding primary sources through the Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/index.html [1]
• Interviewing people with knowledge and experience
• Featuring children’s literature about women’s voting rights:
  Here are some resources that will help
  • Women's Rights [2] (Amazon.com)
  • Voting Rights Act [3](Amazon.com)
  • Vote!, by Eileen Christelo [4]
  • Women's Suffrage Lesson [5] Scholastic Books