Unit Plan

Women's Suffrage Teacher's Guide

Students read about the suffrage movement, research and respond to discussion questions, and write essays.

  • Grades: 3–5, 6–8
This Unit Plan supports Women's Suffrage Activities

Overview

Scholastic's Women's Suffrage unit allows your students to learn about the quest by women around the world to win the right to vote. Students will read background information while building their vocabulary skills. Students will also explore and analyze maps and dates as well as have a chance to make a personal connection by reading a firsthand account of a woman who voted for the first time in 1920.

Objective

Students will:

  1. Discover the history behind women's suffrage
  2. Develop vocabulary related civics and citizenship
  3. Explore world and U.S. maps
  4. Draw conclusions about patterns in women suffrage dates
  5. Make personal connections to suffrage history

Lesson Plans for this Unit

Supporting Books

Women's Suffrage Books and Resources
  • Subjects:
    Reading, Research Skills, Writing, Cities and States, Geography and Map Skills, Women's Rights Movement, Women's Suffrage
  • Skills:
    Social Studies, Research Skills, Writing
  • Duration:
    13 Class Periods
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