Online Learning Activities

Women Who Changed History

Celebrate Women’s History Month by studying five women who made a difference, from Sally Ride to Rosa Parks.

  • Grades: 3–5, 6–8

In “Women Who Changed History,” students participate in reading and writing activities while learning about these five brave, innovative and determined women who made history in the U.S.

  • Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African-American female astronaut
  • Amelia Earhart, the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic
  • Rosa Parks, the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement”
  • Sally Ride, the first American woman to enter space
  • Melba Pattillo, one of the first African-American students to integrate into a formerly all-white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. 

Extension activities include writing a newspaper article or persuasive essay about these key leaders in the women's movement.

  • Subjects:
    Civil War Period and Reconstruction, American Civil War, Civil Rights, Slavery, Underground Railroad, Abolition, Content Area Reading, Independent Reading, Reading Comprehension, Reading Response, Research Skills, Writing, Writing Process, Writing Prompts, Space Travel, Civics and Government, Scientists and Human Endeavor, Civil Rights Movement, Jobs, Careers, Work, African American, Historic Figures, Human Rights, Social Studies through Literature, Women's History and Experience, Women's Rights Movement, Women's Suffrage, Individuals, Groups, Institutions, Tolerance and Acceptance, Black History Month, Women's History Month, Communication and the Internet, Computers, Teaching with Technology
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