Lesson Plan

Women’s Rights are Human Rights

A large room with wooden benches and a bronze statue of a woman — Use this series of four lesson plans to investigate the history of the women's rights movement and transportation and the movement of ideas!

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Grade Level:: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Subject:: Social Studies
Lesson Duration:: 30 Minutes

Essential Question

How has the right to vote increased throughout the history of the United States?
What transportation methods were available to use in 1848 for people to get to the Seneca Falls Convention?

Objective

By the end of this series of lessons, students will be able to understand the growth and change of the women's rights movement, including the movement for suffrage, and be able to express the ways in which transportation developments influenced the movement.