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Women's History - The History Channel

Grades
6 to 12
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The popular cable channel's women's history site provides images, content, and links to related resources. Find topics such as The History of Mother's Day, How Women Used Christmas...more
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The popular cable channel's women's history site provides images, content, and links to related resources. Find topics such as The History of Mother's Day, How Women Used Christmas to Fight Slavery, Mother Theresa, and many others. Each article has links with images and more information about the people and time for the chosen topic.

tag(s): women (154), womenchangemaker (39), womens suffrage (52), world war 2 (163)

In the Classroom

This site has plenty of relatively short videos that could easily be played in class to supplement lecture. For a unit on WWII, play the short 3 minute video about the Women Auxiliary Corp on the interactive whiteboard or projector. Short and sweet, the video addresses what the domestic front was like and addresses the issues of women's rights simultaneously. Have students watch the video, and then hold a class discussion as to the differences seen in the WAC video and videos that they might have seen concerning the mens army. After the discussion, have students create venn diagrams highlighting the differences. Use an online tool such as Interactive Two Circle Venn Diagram, reviewed here.