Women's History Month Activity and Bulletin Board Collaborative Project
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Description
Women's History Month Class Quilt Project and Display: This project contains 40 influential women. Students will do a mini research on an assigned (or chosen) woman and complete their part of the display. After the individual pages are completed, they fit together to create a large class quilt. It can be displayed in the classroom or in a common area of the school to show off just how appreciated the women who made such a difference in the world are! Studying women's history can be be very meaningful for your students!!
What's Included in this Project?
A quilt page for each of the following amazing people important to Women's History
- Ada Lovelace - considered the first computer programmer
- Althea Gibson – tennis player, first black athlete to cross the color line of international tennis
- Ann Bancroft – explorer, first woman to cross ice caps to reach the North & South Poles
- Anne Frank – author, one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust
- Audrey Hepburn – actress, humanitarian
- Aung San Suu Kyi – political leader in her country of Myanmar, Nobel Peace Prize Winner
- Betsy Ross - credited with making the first American flag
- Billie Jean King – tennis player, advocate for gender equality
- Clara Barton - pioneering nurse, founded the American Red Cross
- Connie Chung - important American journalist
- Danica Patrick - race car driver
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton - suffragist, leading figure of the early women's rights movement
- Florence Nightingale – founder of modern nursing
- Frida Kahlo - Mexican painter best known for her self-portraits
- Hillary Clinton - American politician, Secretary of State
- Hypatia - the earliest (documented) female mathematician + astronomer
- Indira Gandhi - fourth Prime Minister of India
- Irma Rangel - Mexican-American politician, attorney, activist
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee – athlete, ranked among the greatest in the women's heptathlon
- Jane Goodall - primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, UN Messenger of Peace
- Joan of Arc - heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint
- Kamala Harris - first woman (and POC) to serve as the Vice President of the US
- Katharine Hepburn – actress, known for her fierce independence and spirited personality
- Kristi Yamaguchi - first Asian American woman to win a gold medal in a Winter Olympic competition
- Louisa May Alcott - author of the novel Little Women
- Mae Jemison – physician, NASA astronaut, first African American woman to travel in space
- Margaret Thatcher - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Marie Curie - physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity
- Maya Angelou - author, poet
- Michelle Kwan - Most decorated figure skater in U.S. history
- Mindy Kaling - American actress and comedian
- Mother Teresa - religious sister and missionary
- Oprah Winfrey - media proprietor, talk show host, actress, philanthropist
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Rachel Carson - marine biologist + pioneer in the global environmental movement
- Sally Ride - the first American woman in space
- Sandra Day O’Conner - first woman appointed to the Supreme Court
- Sonia Sotomayor - first Supreme Court justice of Latino heritage
- Vera Wang - fashion designer and editor and one of the most famous bridal designers in America
A blank template is included to add your own favorite women in history.
Teacher Tips
- Study one woman each day in the month of March (Women's History Month)
- Allow each student to research one famous woman
- Staple pages together to make the quilt OR attach the pages together by punching a small hole in the corners and tying them together
Happily brought to you by Rachel Lynette and Cassi Noack of Minds in Bloom.