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Parent and Family Issues
Teacherscount.org - An Org That Promotes the Profession
Teachers, Future Teachers, and Teacher Supporters Should Check It Out
TeachersCount is a non-profit organization whose goals are to improve the teaching experience of pre-school, elementary-school, and secondary-school teachers and to raise the status of the teaching profession in the United States.
TeachersCount
http://www.teacherscount.org
Through its Web site, TeachersCount provides a variety of services and resources aimed at current teachers, future teachers, and teacher "boosters."
Teachers will find free and discounted resources. Including books, Web sites, essays, and special topics of the month; education news; conference information; teaching awards and competitions; favorite links; and teaching materials at a discount.
Potential teachers will find articles and resources on the advantages of becoming a teacher, the process of entering the profession, and links to scholarship information.
Teacher boosters will find ways to express their support of the profession. TeachersCount has collaborated with Hallmark to present free teaching-themed e-cards, as well as a new list of innovative ideas called "Ten Ways to Thank a Teacher."
This section of the site also promotes the good work of teachers through the Honoring Teachers program. Here you'll find articles written by people of all backgrounds describing their most inspiring teacher.
TeachersCount is also partnering with Time Inc. in a national marketing campaign to promote distinctive portraits of celebrities with teachers who influenced their lives. The portraits are now appearing in the Time Inc. publications (Time, People, Fortune, InStyle, to name a few) with the catchphrase
"Behind every famous person is a fabulous teacher."
If you are a teacher, or want to become one, or simply wish to help to promote the teaching profession, you'll enjoy visiting the TeachersCount Web site.
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Technology Resources
Included in these technology resources are Articles & Web Sites, Handbooks & Guides, and Research & Reports.
Articles & Web Sites
Apple Learning Interchange
Apple has developed an online educational environment to facilitate the interchange of ideas among teachers, education leaders, visionaries, and innovators. The Learning Interchange provides the vehicle for reflective discussion of contemporary education practices through a network of organizations dedicated to improvement. A museum of online exhibits created by educators for educators showcases authentic teaching practices, leadership practices, virtual field trips, and educational events, all with media-based resources.
http://ali.apple.com/
Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology
CARET bridges education technology research to practice by offering research-based answers to critical questions. Browse Questions & Answers to learn what studies show about topics such as student learning, curriculum and instruction, and professional development. Click on Search to find and read CARET reviews of articles and their implications. Create your Profile to receive notice of new reviews and topics.
http://caret.iste.org/
Dr. Seuss Explains Computers
The author is unknown of this four-verse poem dedicated to those of us who do not live and breathe computers!
commonplacebook.com/humor/computers/seuss.shtm
HOAXBUSTERS: U.S. Dept. of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CAIC)
In addition to describing hoaxes and chain letters found on the Internet, this site discusses how to recognize hoaxes, what to do about them, and some of the history of hoaxes on the Internet.
hoaxbusters.ciac.org/
Learn the Net
Visit this site for information about a broad array of computer-related questions. Learn about modems, computer ports or monitor settings; discover how e-mail is sent and stored, how listservs and newsgroups work, or how to maintain e-mail privacy; and, increase your Internet IQ by learning about "browsers," "URL's," bookmarking your favorite sites, and how online chats really work.
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/index.html
pdaED.com: The Handheld Headquarters for Students and Education Professionals
Complete with top-notch news, columns, tutorials, product reviews, a community forum and product offerings.
www.pdaed.com/columns/archive.xml
Play It Cyber Safe
While the Internet can be a unique educational and recreational resource for children, it's important that kids learn how to use this powerful tool safely and responsibly. The goal of this Web site is to empower children, parents, and teachers to prevent cyber crime -- such as software piracy, intellectual property theft, and hacking -- through knowledge of the law, their rights, and how to avoid misuse of the Internet. The site includes curriculum tools for teachers and online games and tutorials for students.
http://www.playitcybersafe.com/
Share the Technology
If you're looking for free computer equipment, you might want to try Share the Technology. The site provides a way for donors and potential recipients to search online message boards and databases to find computers and equipment available for free in their region. Donors can also post their goods here.
http://www.sharetechnology.org/
The Snorkel: A Support Forum for K-12 Technology Leaders
Tips, tool downloads, listserv, and timely articles.
www.thesnorkel.org/
ThinkQuest
ThinkQuest is offered to teachers and students interested in participating in a program to build educational Web sites. The teachers and students form teams around the project of their choosing and the result is an educational Web site. The team, in the course of participating in this program, will explore and add to growing sources of educational information on the Internet for kids by kids. ThinkQuest teaches technology, research, and collaboration skills. You and your team are free to create and discover the limits of your imagination and the world of Web publishing.
http://www.thinkquest.org/
ThinkQuest for Tomorrow's Teachers
ThinkQuest for Tomorrow's Teachers (T3) is a teacher-preparation program that is funded in part by a "Catalyst" grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) initiative. T3 is bringing the ThinkQuest learning model to teacher-education faculty and future teachers across America. The Web builders are working with a consortium of colleges and universities to help prepare a new generation of classroom teachers to meet the needs of 21st century learners.
http://www.preservice.org/
ThinkQuest for Tomorrow's Teachers PT3 Initiative
U.S. Department of Education's Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) initiative.
http://www.pt3.org/
Transforming Learning With Technology: Strategies for the Urban High School
Integration of technology into the school curriculum has been challenging for most teachers, schools, and districts. This Web site reports on a study, funded by the Joyce Foundation, of technology use in six Chicago and Detroit schools.
http://schooltechnologystrategies.sri.com/challenges/ challenges4.html
Virtual Teachers Lounge
Based on "wiki" technology that allows any registered user to post and edit lesson plans, handouts, and other resources online, this site is designed to allow educators to work collaboratively to refine and perfect their teaching materials. Creator Rob Lucas' vision is to eventually have users "develop an extensive library of creative, finely tuned, engaging, lessons." Intrigued?
http://teacherslounge.editme.com/
WhatIs.com
This site provides tools to explore and learn about information technology, especially about the Internet and computers. It contains over 3000 individual encyclopedic definitions, quizzes, and "ask an expert" forums. The topics contain about 12,000 hyperlinked cross-references between definition-topics and to other sites for further information.
http://whatis.techtarget.com/
HANDBOOKS & GUIDES
An Educator's Guide to Evaluating The Use of Technology in Schools and Classrooms
Your school has just received a grant to purchase new computers and to train teachers to integrate technology into their teaching - activities that will enable the school to achieve some of the goals outlined in both the district and school technology plans. However, people have questions. The agency funding the grant wants to know if it is getting its "money's worth"; the superintendent wants to know if teachers are using technology in their instruction and whether the technology is affecting student work and motivation; and, there are many more. Someone has to try to answer all of these questions. For better or worse, this someone is you! This guide is designed to help you through the evaluation process and to make it as painless as possible.
(December 1998)
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/EdTechGuide/
Technology @ Your Fingertips: A Guide to Implementing Technology Solutions for Education Agencies and Institutions
This handbook describes a process for getting the best possible technology solution for your organization. It also describes the steps necessary to identify technology needs, acquire the technology, and implement a technology solution that provides a foundation for an organization's future technology well being. (January 2001)
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=98293
Weaving a Secure Web Around Education: A Guide to Technology Standards and Security
Weaving a Secure Web Around Education: A Guide to Technology Standards and Security is a publication of the National Center For Education Statistics' National Forum on Education Statistics. This publication provides recommendations for development, maintenance, and standardization for effective Web sites.
(April 2003)
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2003381
RESEARCH & REPORTS
Internet Access in U.S. Public Schools and Classrooms: 1994-2001
This report presents data on Internet access in U.S. public schools from 1994 to 2001 by school characteristics. It provides trend analysis on the progress of public schools and classrooms in connecting to the Internet and on the ratio of students to instructional computers with Internet access. For the year 2001, this report also presents data on the types of Internet connections used; student access to the Internet outside of regular school hours; laptop computer loans; and operating systems, memory capacity and disk space found most frequently on instructional computers. It also contains information on special hardware and software for students with disabilities, school-sponsored e-mail addresses, school Web sites, and technologies and procedures to prevent student access to inappropriate material on the Internet.
(September 2002)
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2002018
ISTE/CEO Forum Online Assessment Tool: StaR Chart
Identifies and defines four school profiles ranging from the "Early Tech" school with little or no technology to the "Target Tech" school that provides a model for the integration and innovative use of education technology. The STaR Chart is not intended to be a measure of any particular school's technology and readiness, but rather to serve a benchmark against which every school can assess and track its own progress.
http://www.iste.org/inhouse/starchart/index.cfm ?Section=STaRChart&CFID=6353783&CFTOKEN=60934490
ISTE: Journal of Research on Technology in Education
The quarterly JRTE publishes articles that report on original research, system or project descriptions and evaluations, syntheses of the literature, assessments of the state of the art, and theoretical or conceptual positions that relate to educational computing. International in scope and thorough in its coverage, the theoretical and conceptual articles in JRTE define the state of the art and future horizons of educational computing.
http://www.iste.org/jrte/
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Virtual Museums - Fresh Materials and Perspectives
Students enjoy these unique learning tools.
American Memory Project | Library of Congress
This rich collection of primary source material from the Library of Congress incorporates documents, audio, video, maps, and photographs into forty online exhibitions. Here you'll find information on everything from the Civil War to vaudeville to folk music to the Great Depression. This is a great resource for secondary level social studies and literature classes.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/
American Museum of Natural History
Take a coral reef adventure, explore the history of chocolate, or view rare and unique photos of the moon. OLogy, a special site for young learners, offers a chance to learn about whatever students are interested in. Whether they're fascinated by spiders (arachnology), erupting with joy for volcanoes (volcanology), or being wowed by planets and stars (astronomy), they'll find everything they need on this Web site.
http://www.amnh.org
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The British Museum
Search the online database for information on over 5,000 objects, or take a Guided Tour of specific collections. A special area for children provides age-appropriate resources for young learners. Each month the museum sponsors a competition in which students enter for a chance to see their work displayed on the museum Web site. Teachers and students may also send questions to museum curators (allow 2 weeks for responses). Teachers may find the "curriculum search" especially useful; it can be used to locate Online Tours covering a variety of subjects and topics. The Tours offer self-contained, thorough explorations of each subject area, with accompanying worksheets and online activities for a range of abilities, including provision for special needs students. Tours also include examples of children's work, animations, web links and reading lists.
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/
Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
This Web site features more than 10,000 files with a terrific online library of more than 2000 19th century pictures, maps and descriptions of railroad construction and travel. It tells the story of the Pacific Railroad in human terms with lots of exhibits and first person accounts. It also has a simulation game for elementary students called The Great Railroad Race.
http://cprr.org/Museum/index.html
China the Beautiful
This virtual museum offers rich media on subjects such as the Beijing Opera, calligraphy, dragons, emperors, New Year, and Zen Buddhism. Online tools include discussion boards, dictionaries, flash cards, tips for learning Chinese, and maps.
http://www.chinapage.org/china.html
The Exploratorium
The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception located in San Francisco, California. Online since 1993, the Exploratorium was one of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide Web. Included in the site are more than 12,000 Web pages and many sound and video files, exploring hundreds of different topics. The site contains instructions for over 500 simple experiments, all of which may be viewed on any type of Web browser, with even the slowest connection, and easily printed out. A variety of online exhibits are also available, all of which are patterned after real exhibits on the museum floor. Occasionally, the online version provides a richer experience than its physical counterparts.
http://www.exploratorium.edu
The Field Museum
Named after its principal benefactor (Marshal Field) and dedicated to preserving and showcasing objects that illustrate natural history, the Field Museum Web site is home to dozens of online exhibits that provide students with rich sources of information on everything from Tyrannosaurus rex to butterflies, and African artworks to prominent female scientists.
http://www.fmnh.org
The Museum of Tolerance
This is a high tech, hands-on experiential museum that focuses on two central themes through unique interactive exhibits: the dynamics of racism and prejudice in America and the history of the Holocaust. The Museum, the educational arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, was founded to challenge visitors to confront bigotry and racism, and to understand the Holocaust in both historic and contemporary contexts.
http://www.museumoftolerance.com/
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Presenting the Visual Timeline
An interactive, animated compendium of rock and popular music history. Discover unexpected connections between artists. Track the growth of a musical movement. Zoom in on the day the Beatles invaded America, or out to a bird's-eye view of the blues' sweeping influence. (Requires Shockwave player.)
http://www.rockhall.com/timeline/
The Smithsonian Institution
This online companion to the world's largest museum complex provides access to thousands of free resources on American history and culture, natural history, air and space travel, fine arts, and more. Each Smithsonian museum (National Portrait Gallery, Natural History, etc.) has its own Web site, as do each of the Smithsonian's publications (including magazines, books, images and records). Special sections of the Web site are devoted to teachers and students, where curriculum resources can be searched by subject area, grade level, and resource type (e.g., lesson plans, Web sites, field trips), and where students will find fun games and activities, as well as kid-friendly information and articles.
http://www.si.edu
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
This multimedia companion to the physical museum holds personal histories of holocaust victims, survivor testimonies, artifacts, music, photographs, historical films and documents, maps, and animated maps. The museum has many resources for teachers, including tips on instructional strategies; teaching materials and resources; and, information on professional development, online workshops, and planning for visits.
http://www.ushmm.org
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Voting Rights Resources
 These resources were gathered to commemorate the anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, which became law on July 25-26, 1965. The Act abolished "tests" of literacy, knowledge, and character designed to prevent African-Americans from exercising their right to vote. It also authorized the appointment of federal voting examiners and banned discriminatory poll taxes.
The Act was renewed by Congress in 1975, 1984, 1991, and most recently on July 20, when the United States Senate passed the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006. The 98-0 vote in the Senate and subsequent 390-33 vote in the House represented the largest margin of support in the history of the Act.
Lesson Plans, Activities, Current Events, & Quizzes
C-Span
This site provides classroom quizzes, lessons, activities, and statistics to help teach high school students about national elections in a nonpartisan manner.
www.c-span.org/classroom/govt/campaigns.asp
CivilRights.org
This site provides current reporting on the Voting Rights Act, including information on the 2007 Reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act and a general FAQ on the Voting Rights Act.
http://www.civilrights.org/issues/voting
The History Channel
This study guide for teachers of junior high and high school students provides discussion questions and activities for the History Channel’s documentary "Crossing the Bridge," which focuses on the 15th Amendment, disenfranchisement, literacy tests, segregation, and suffrage. Materials based on the national history standards.
www.historychannel.com/classroom/admin/ study_guide/archives/thc_guide.0531.html
Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library
Teachers of junior high and high school students will find unique classroom materials and activities in the LBJ Library. For example, the audio gallery includes a three-minute audiotape of a January 1965 conversation on voting rights held between President Lyndon B. Johnson and Dr. Martin Luther King.
www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/lbjforkids/selma-mont.shtm
Public Broadcasting Service
PBS's NOW for Educators features lesson plans, teaching guides, and other classroom tools on voting as well as background pieces on the topic.
Renew the VRA
Read stories of how the VRA has transformed the nation, find out which states are affected by the reauthorization, and why you should care about the VRA.
http://www.renewthevra.org/
Stanford University
This site provides the written thoughts of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from his autobiography. It includes a time line of events in February and March 1965 and his speech in Montgomery, at the height of the historic Selma to Montgomery March.
www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/ autobiography/chp_26.htm
United States National Archives
This site provides links to pre-K-12 teaching guides and lesson plans on elections. Lessons include teaching the importance of voting, how the United States president is elected, and the United States Constitution Bill of Rights.
www.archives.gov/federal_register/electoral_college/teach.html.
Materials to Promote Voter Registration & Voting
American Civil Liberties Union
This site includes information on Voter Empowerment Cards, which are designed to inform voters of their rights and responsibilities on Election Day, to avoid problems when casting a ballot.
www.aclu.org/VotingRights
The League of Women Voters
This Web site promotes voter education, voting reform (including the Help America Vote Act), and voter registration tools.
www.lwv.org/join/elections
My Polling Place
When you type in your home address at this Web site, it will quickly tell you if you are registered to vote and which polling place you should go to vote. This service is available before national elections.
www.mypollingplace.com
People for the American Way
On its Civic Participation Web page, this site provides information on electoral resources and reform, promoting the vote, and exercising the right to vote, as well as links to contact federal, state, or local officials.
www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=114
Rock the Vote
This site calls for political power for young people. Readers select their state and then read the voting requirements in their state, view official Web pages of the secretary of state, and read answers to basic questions on voting in their state.
www.rockthevote.org
Background Information: Reports on Voting Rights and Modern Reform Measures
American Civil Liberties Union
The Web page features various reports on litigation by the Voting Rights Project; on voting rights abuses in Florida, Minnesota, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Virginia; and on reform measures.
www.aclu.org/VotingRights
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center
Over 57 ballot measures spanning 34 states during the November 2004 election are summarized in a publication entitled "Ballot Initiative & Referendum: 2004 Election Preview."
www.ballot.org
Filmmakers Richard Perez, Juan Sekler, Robert Greenwald, Earl Katz, and Amy Sommer
A one-hour video documents election irregularities in Florida during the 2000 presidential election. Examples include attempts to purge voter registration rolls of many Black voters and accuse some, such as a widely known local minister, an attorney, and others with no criminal records, of being felons.
www.unprecedented.org
Letter from NEA to the Secretary of State/Chief Election Officer
A letter from NEA to every Secretary of State calling for a verifiable paper trail for electronic voting machines.
www.nea.org/lac/votingrights/0706ltr.html
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
This site features A Voting Rights Information Resource Kit, including critiques of policies for voter identification and proof of citizenship and voting aids for English Language Learning communities.
www.maldef.org
National Asian/Pacific American Legal Consortium
This nonprofit organization monitors voting rights in communities with high concentrations of Asian and Pacific Islanders and reports on reforms such as bilingual voting assistance required for language minorities to stem voting rights abuses.
www.napalc.org/?id=49
People for the American WayOn its Civic Participation Web page, this site provides information on electoral resources and reform, promoting the vote, and exercising the right to vote, as well as links to contact federal, state, or local officials.
www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=114
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
This coalition of over 200 national civil rights and labor groups -- including NEA -- offers special reports on historic and current changes to the Voting Rights Act. A special report includes recommendations such as new security measures to ensure that all votes cast are counted.
www.civilrights.org/issues/voting
The Sentencing Project
Advocating for criminal justice, the Project offers online briefing sheets, policy reports, research, litigation reports, and legislative materials -- including measures on voting rights.
www.sentencingproject.org/pubs_05.cfm#l
Background Information: Voting Rights Act
Government Printing Office
This page from the U.S. Code features an index to the elective franchise.
www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title42/chapter20_.html
United States Department of Justice
The Web site of the Justice Department, whose responsibility it is to enforce the Voting Rights Act, features summaries of federal voting rights statutes and the Department's pending litigation on voting rights.
www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting
United States Census Bureau
The Bureau, with its responsibility to identify states and locales covered under Voting Rights Act provisions for pre-clearance, federal examiners and observers, and bilingual assistance, has a Web page that features voting and registration data and links to listings of covered states and locales.
www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/voting.html
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Women's History Month - Web Resources
Educational Materials to Celebrate Women's History and Contributions
Since 1910, March 8 has been observed as International Women's Day by people around the world. Thus, March was chosen for National Women's History Month in the United States.
In celebrating Women's History, the goal is not to rewrite history, but rather to add very different perspectives about what is historically significant. Before the 1980s, history focused primarily on political, military, and economic leaders and events. That approach has virtually excluded women, both leaders and ordinary citizens, from history books.
Here are some resources to help you integrate the celebration of Women's History Month into your curriculum. You'll find annotated resources for Web sites and recommended lesson plans and activity ideas.
Recommended Web Sites
National Women’s History Project
On this Web site you'll find official information, a downloadable poster, and other resources about National History Month celebration. See the 2006 nominees for women in history -- women creating community and sustaining dreams in countless ways and in myriad venues. See "The Learning Place" section for useful resources for teachers, students, and parents alike.
http://www.nwhp.org/index.html
Thomson-Gale Free Resources
This site offers a brief history of Women's History Month, biographies of significant women throughout time, a quiz based on women and their achievements, a time line of significant events in women's history, a downloadable calendar, and some activities to celebrate women's history.
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/index.htm
"Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 | Library of Congress
The Library of Congress has extensive and varied resources related to the campaign for woman suffrage in the United States. This selection of 38 pictures includes portraits of many individuals who have been frequently requested from the holdings of the Prints and Photographs Division and the Manuscript Division. Also featured are photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, and an anti-suffrage display, as well as cartoons commenting on the movement.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
Women's History Resources | Library of Congress
This area of the Web site was developed in conjunction with the chapter on the Prints and Photographs Division in American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States. It is a starting point for pursuing research in various topic areas that broadly reflect aspects of American women's lives.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/237_path.html
U.S. Women’s History Workshop
The Women's History Workshop is a collaborative effort of Massachusetts teachers -- middle school through college -- which seeks to make available primary sources in pedagogically imaginative formats for teachers who wish to use such materials in their own classrooms.
http://www.assumption.edu/whw/
Women Pioneers in American Memory | Library of Congress
This "Feature Presentation" explores the stories of women who have forged ahead to make a better life for themselves, their families, and their societies. This presentation begins with examining women's experiences of the California Gold Rush and goes on to explore issues such as suffrage, the struggle for equality and women at work. From the Learning Page section of the American Memory Web site.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/ features/women/women.html
Women and the Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000
This Web site contains mini-monographs that interpret documents. Each mini-monograph poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the question. The "Teachers Corner" contains comprehensive lesson plans and ideas and Document-Based Question units.
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/
March 8, International Women’s Day and Women's History Month | NEA
Issues in Education area offers information on the gains, the challenges, and history of Women’s Day and Women's History Month.
http://www.nea.org/international/intlwomen.html#challenges
Profiles
Women of NASA
This resource was developed to encourage more young women to pursue careers in math, science, and technology. The Women of NASA interactive project showcases outstanding women who are enjoying successful careers and demonstrates how these women balance personal and professional responsibilities. The main components of the project are the interactive events, which include live chats, forums, and Webcasts and offer participants the opportunity to dialogue with the featured mentor.
http://questdb.arc.nasa.gov/content_search_women.htm
Women’s Intellectual Contributions to the Study of the Mind and Society
This Web site is designed to place women into the history of psychology, sociology, anthropology, and social work. There are dozens of resources available about the lives of these women, their intellectual contributions, and the unique impact and special problems that being female had on their careers.
http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/women.html
Topical Resources
National Women’s History Museum
This site's educational resources include a self-guided tour of the museum, biographies of famous women, lesson plans, quizzes and quotes, and women's history events by state.
http://www.nmwh.org/
Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement 1848-1998
Sponsored by the National Women’s History Project, this Web site was conceived in order to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Women's Rights Movement, which began in 1848. Most useful on the site are the full history of the women's rights movement and a detailed time line of the 150 years of the movement.
http://www.legacy98.org/
The History Channel: Women’s History Month
HistoryChannel.com includes profiles of numerous famous women, a Hall of Fame, a History of Women’s Suffrage in America, a time line, Women's Firsts, and other resources.
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/womenhist/
The National Women's Hall of Fame
This Web site from the Seneca Falls, New York, National Women's Hall of Fame houses biographies of famous American women.
http://www.greatwomen.org/
Recommended Books, Women’s Studies | PBS TeacherSource
Each month, PBS recommends a select number of books for teachers and students of all grade levels. Here you'll find an archived list of all books recommended over the past several years relevant to Women's History Month. Each recommendation is annotated and includes title, author, and publication date.
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/recommended/ social_studies/bk_womensstudies.shtm
Research Tools, Women's History | Scholastic
An excellent resources for students, this site contains student-friendly essays on the history of Women's History Month, the women's suffrage movement, and women in the U.S. today, and profiles of civil rights activists, artists, athletes, political women, journalists, scientists, and others.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/articlearchives/womhst/
Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony | PBS
An online companion to the PBS documentary, this site includes a collection of resources that may be used in the classroom. Experience the work of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony -- at home or in the classroom. Track key events in the suffrage movement, delve into historic documents and essays, and take a look at where women are today.
http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/
Women in Alaska’s History | ThinkQuest
This site, developed by students for the ThinkQuest competition, helps students learn about a diverse group of women who helped shape the Alaska we know today. On the site, you'll find information about these women and their roles in early Alaskan history, the gold rush, the Iditarod, and other aspects of Alaskan history and culture. A search engine and time line allows you to search for a specific woman or time period in Alaskan history. An activities section includes teaching ideas and fun projects to supplement this site.
http://library.thinkquest.org/11313/
What Did You Do In The War, Grandma?
This site is an excellent example of a community oral history project. The site is produced by students at South Kingstown High School in Rhode Island and contains 26 oral histories of women's memories of World War II, an introduction explaining how English teachers might approach oral histories, a WWII time line, a bibliography, and two scholarly prefaces. http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html
True-Hearted Vixens | PBS: P.O.V.
True-Hearted Vixens is the story of two players who make the cut for the Women's Professional Football League's (WPFL's) first exhibition tour. Jane Bolin is a political consultant turned linebacker, and Kertia 'Moochie' Lofton is a single mother and a professional women's basketball hopeful. The film also documents the challenges the WPFL faces in developing an audience for a sport that is traditionally regarded as male terrain. Explore the world of girls' and women's sports, and brush up on your history of U.S. women in team sports.
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2001/trueheartedvixens/
Eleanor Roosevelt | PBS: The American Experience
For more than thirty years, she was the most powerful woman in America. Niece of one president and wife of another, Eleanor Roosevelt was at the center of much of this century's history -- a charismatic woman of charm and of contradictions. Aristocratic in voice and manner, she was also "tough as nails," says historian Geoffrey Ward. "In fact, she was one of the best politicians of the twentieth century." As this PBS film and Web site explore her life and works, you'll have an opportunity to discover her influence on the changing role of women in the United States.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/filmmore/index.html
Fly Girls | PBS: The American Experience
During WWII, more than a thousand women signed up to fly with the U.S. military. Wives, mothers, actresses, and debutantes who joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) test-piloted aircraft, ferried planes and logged 60 million miles in the air. Thirty-eight women died in service. But the opportunity to play a critical role in the war effort was abruptly canceled by politics and resentment, and it would be 30 years before women would again break the sex barrier in the skies. As women's place in the US military continues to evolve -- including conducting bombing missions for the first time during the recent Desert Fox campaign -- the story of these female pioneers is more relevant than ever.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flygirls/index.html
Iran on the Verge | PBS: Adventure Divas
Iranian women in particular feel the rumblings as the country's political and cultural landscape shifts. Their lives are racked with contradictions. They must hide their bodies, yet their voices are starting to be heard. http://www.pbs.org/adventuredivas/iran/groundwork/
Lesson Plans
Resources: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony | PBS
Subjects: Social Studies, History, Civics, Government, Language Arts
Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Incorporating women's history into your curriculum is easy with these lesson ideas. Write editorials about women's rights around the world today; interview senior citizens about how women's roles have changed in the 20th century; investigate women's legal rights over 200 years of American history through primary documents; and explore the connections and conflicts between the suffrage and abolition movements in 19th century America.
http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/resources/index.html
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Miss America | PBS: The American Experience
Subjects: History, Economics, Geography, Civics
Grades: 6-8, 9-12
"Miss America" offers insights into American history topics including the Jazz Age, the Depression, World War II, the Baby Boom, feminist and civil rights activism of the 1960s, the women's liberation movement, and more.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/missamerica/tguide/index.html
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