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Women's Rights National Historical Park
Opening the Gates to Change: the Erie Canal and Woman’s Suffrage
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this lesson from the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor, students will analyze the impacts of the Erie Canal on development of 19th century social reform movements, particularly women’s rights. Students will examine historic examples of groups who struggled for equality and will compare past movements to contemporary issues. Students will consider their own capacities as change-makers.
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
HERstories of Cuyahoga Valley: the Suffrage Movement and Harriet Keeler
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Many women in Northeast Ohio were active members of not only their communities but in the activist movements of the late 1800s and early 1900s. In this lesson, students will discover the life of Harriet Keeler.
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park
Life after "Freedom" Post-Visit Activity
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Tubman’s deep faith sustained her as nurse and a spy for the Union army. Tubman eventually settled with her extended family in Auburn, New York, was active in the women’s suffrage movement and founded a home for the elderly and disadvantaged.
Gateway Arch National Park
Segregation Laws in the 1800s: Williams v. Bellefontaine
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In 1867, Neptune and Caroline Williams sued the Bellefontaine Railway Company over its discriminatory policies regarding African Americans. In a dispute with the streetcar operator, Mrs. Williams was hurt. The Williamses sued at the St. Louis Courthouse and won their case, but with a twist. Will students reach the same verdict?
Gateway Arch National Park
Trial for the Right to Vote: Virginia Minor v. Happersett
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In a room on the second floor of the St. Louis Courthouse in 1873, Virginia Louisa Minor sued a city registrar for denying her the right the register to vote. What was her argument? In this mock trial, students will reenact the 1873 trial, listen to both sides, and reach their own verdict in the case.
The White House and President's Park
Lafayette Park: First Amendment Rights on the President’s Doorstep
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn how a group of determined women selected Lafayette Park, across from the White House, to demonstrate for their right to vote, providing a First Amendment model for many others.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
The Center of The Rebellion: The Elizabeth Cady Stanton House
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her growing family lived in Seneca Falls from 1847 to 1862. During that time Stanton helped organize the 1848 First Woman’s Rights Convention and launched the reform movement for women’s rights to which she dedicated the rest of her life. She called her home on Washington Street in Seneca Falls, "The Center of the Rebellion."
Homestead National Historical Park
Women Who Paved the Way, Exploring Women Homesteaders and Suffragists (Adult)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Adult Education
The Homestead Act of 1862 was gender-blind, allowing women to claim 160 acres of land just like men could. As women homesteaders were helping to settle the West, suffragists fought to secure the right to vote for women across the United States.
Gateway Arch National Park
Tort Liability: Franke v. City of St. Louis
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Frederick Franke was injured in St. Louis when part of a building fell on his head as he was walking. Tragically, he died as a result of his injuries. His mother, Julia Franke, sued the owner of the building and the City of St. Louis for damages. This case was heard in 1888 in the St. Louis Courthouse (the Old Courthouse). Students will reenact the case and hear from all sides.
Homestead National Historical Park
Women Who Paved the Way, Exploring Women Homesteaders and Suffragists (9th - 12th)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The Homestead Act of 1862 was gender-blind, allowing women to claim 160 acres of land just like men could. As women homesteaders were helping to settle the West, suffragists fought to secure the right to vote for women across the United States.
Gateway Arch National Park
Freedom Suit: Dred Scott v. Irene Emerson
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
1846, an enslaved couple named Dred and Harriet Scott sued for their freedom at the St. Louis Courthouse, a historic courthouse managed by the National Park Service at Gateway Arch National Park and referred to as the "Old Courthouse." In this mock trial, students learn about the second trial the Scotts undertook at the courthouse in 1850. During this case, the court declared Dred Scott to be a free man. How will students interpret the case?
First State National Historical Park
Field Trips to Old Swedes Historic Site
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Travel back in time with your students as you discover what life was like in the early 18th century! Our partners at Old Swedes Historic Site will work with you to design a field trip that will best match the curriculum your students are learning today.
Natchez Trace Parkway
Read with a Ranger Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
This program illustrates how a woman and a former enslaved person worked towards changing society. It ties women and enslaved people’s roles in the formation and continuation of the Natchez Trace.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Be a Women's Rights Influencer- Middle School Level
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will research women’s rights and reform advocates from the nineteenth century. Students will choose one activist and act as their social media manager. Students will create a social media plan for the platform of their choice and highlight their reformer’s story.
Grand Canyon National Park
Fighting for Voting Rights at Grand Canyon and Across Arizona
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The fight for voting rights sprawls across the nation. Have student explore Grand Canyon and Arizona's role in the still evolving story.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will identify locations on a street map using accompanying text. They will search a database to find historical photos of the corresponding locations. Using what they have discovered, they will analyze the connection between location and methods of working for change. Taking it further, the students will identify an issue they would like to advocate for and describe a corresponding location to work for that change.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Before the end of legal slavery in the United States, free African Americans migrated to Canada to find greater security and liberty. After the Civil War, some returned to the U.S. to aid emancipated people and rebuild the South. Mary Ann Shadd Cary was a business woman, abolitionist, and suffragist.
Clara Barton National Historic Site
Clara Barton's House: Home of the American Red Cross
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Follow Barton's remarkable career as a leader of charitable causes, from caring for the wounded on Civil War battlefields to founding the American Red Cross. The lesson could be used in teaching units on 19th- and early-20th-century American history, especially as related to social change during the period. It also could be used to teach about the history of women in the United States.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Women’s Rights are Human Rights
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
In this series of four lesson plans from the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor, students will be able to explore the development and growth of the American women's rights movement. This includes lessons about the Seneca Falls Convention, the Erie Canal, and the later women's rights movement. Developed by educator Lynn Girven of the Rochester City School District.
Homestead National Historical Park
Women Who Paved the Way, Exploring Women Homesteaders and Suffragists (6th - 8th)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Homestead Act of 1862 was gender-blind, allowing women to claim 160 acres of land just like men could. As women homesteaders were helping to settle the West, suffragists fought to secure the right to vote for women across the United States.