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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.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Be a Women's Rights Influencer
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth 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.
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.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Revolutionary Roots: the First Women’s Rights Convention held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, NY
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
How does a social movement grow? Join a ranger to meet the five organizers of the 1848 Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention and learn more about the Wesleyan Chapel in which it was held. Discover how Faith, Fortune and Fate combined to ignite a movement.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Virtual Scavenger Hunt- High School Level
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Participants will navigate different online sources, using the links provided, to answer the questions about the key details of the 1848 Women’s Rights Convention and important aspects of the larger Women’s Movement.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Virtual Scavenger Hunt- Middle School Level
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Participants will navigate different online sources, using the links provided, to answer the questions about the key details of the 1848 Women’s Rights Convention and important aspects of the larger Women’s Movement.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Rights and Privileges- High School Level
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This program will share the story of the Seneca Falls 1848 Convention for Woman's Rights. The program consists of several assignments designed to help students recognize the difference between a right and a privilege and apply their knowledge to those who organized and attended the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Rights and Privileges- Middle School Level
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This program will share the story of the Seneca Falls 1848 Convention for Woman's Rights. The program consists of several assignments designed to help students recognize the difference between a right and a privilege and apply their knowledge to those who organized and attended the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Create Your Own Exhibit- Middle School Level
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Participants will use objects they find in their homes to curate their own Women’s Movement museum exhibit. The museum exhibit will demonstrate the participants understanding of an important event in the Woman’s Movement or a key theme, as well as link their exhibit to other events in the movement.
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."
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Create Your Own Exhibit- Upper Elementary Level
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Participants will use objects they find in their homes to curate their own Women’s Movement museum exhibit. The museum exhibit will demonstrate the participants understanding of an important event in the Woman’s Movement or a key theme, as well as link their exhibit to other events in the movement.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Radical Hospitality at the M'Clintock Home
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Thomas and Mary Ann M'Clintock made this their home for 20 years. They ran a local business, led the local Quaker Monthly Meeting, and were involved in almost every reform activity in Western New York. On July 16, 1848, Mary Ann M'Clintock hosted a session for the First Women's Rights Convention where planners drafted a document they called the Declaration of Sentiments proclaiming that "all men and women are created equal."
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.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Pathways to Equality: Traveling History Classroom
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This Traveling History Classroom contains a hands-on study of the antislavery movement and Quakers, and how they influenced the First Women's Rights Convention. It includes a study guide that used documents, images, diary and letter excerpts, and reproduction items and clothing to explore how Quakers and antislavery reformers brought about the Seneca Falls Convention.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
The Works of Faith: The Hunt Family Legacy
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
When Richard Hunt first came to Waterloo, NY in 1821, he found a boom town. He and his second wife, Jane, were closely associated with local Quaker families, and intimately engaged in local business ventures. Through their faith and their industry they effected change in the community, and beyond. Explore their works--from the Underground Railroad to their woolen mill, to the tea party that set off a rebellion.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Sentiments and Resolutions
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
For this lesson, students will divided up into group examine the Declaration of Independence and Declaration of Sentiments to understand the similarities and differences of the different Declarations.
First State National Historical Park
Rights, Rules and Privileges
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This program explores the differences between rights, rules and privileges and the need for government and laws. Students have to determine if something is a right, a rule or a privilege. This program takes place at the New Castle Court House Museum.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A learning activity for 4th through 8th grade comparing two versions of Sojourner Truth's Ain't I A Woman speech. Students will identify the main argument of the speech and analyze the different versions to determine which source may be more accurate. Extend the lesson by reciting the speech with expressions and gestures.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In wartime, women traditionally served either on the home front or as nurses and laundresses. During the U.S.-Mexican War, most women played these traditional roles while others aided the military in non-traditional ways. Read primary documents about female soldiers, war correspondents, and spies.
Federal Hall National Memorial
Federal Hall and the Bill of Rights
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will learn about the Bill of Rights, its significance to Federal Hall, and create their own Bill of Rights.