It is a month filled with wonderful sharing and creating of stories, songs, events, resources, artifacts, and more. All of these things show us the importance of all women in the past, future and present.
In fact, today is the day we celebrate International Women's Day so it has been very exciting to follow all of the things being lifted up in honor of this day....and ultimately for Women's History Month too.
Women's History Month website from The Library of Congress. This gives us a great overview of how this celebration came about and the importance of it as a national celebration each year and in using these resources throughout the year.
Women's History Month Symbaloo.
Time for Kids Women's History Month page is awesome and filled with so many resources, articles, and tools to use with your students.
Flocabulary Women's History Month...The Week In Rap Junior is engaging and fun way to introduce this event to your students.
They are very special because children can learn about these important women in history through the songs and stories included in each book from Cantata. There are three which support women who had an impact on our history through the things they overcame and the difference they made within the world.
You can find the songs on the Women's History Month Symbaloo and also on the Cantata Learning website.
You can listen here.
I love finding nonfiction titles to pair with the Cantata Learning ones and this Pebble series from Capstone is perfect.
In fact, there are several in the Great Women in History series from Capstone.
I also included links to two different spots in PebbleGO from Capstone. If you have access to PebbleGO, there are lots of Famous Women and First Ladies in the PebbleGO Biographies database.
My students loved the Share What You Know sheets that can be found with each article entry in PebbleGO. They love being able to turn into researchers as they discover new information about the person or topic they are researching.The First Lady of Civil Rights Rosa Parks from Cantata Learning is another favorite of mine for Women's History Month.
Amelia Bloomer Project website which is filled with so many great choices for birth through 18.
Women In Conservation Series.
I like this series because so many schools do those “wax museum” projects where kids pick a historical figure and dress up like them and have a little speech—you know what I’m talking about? Women bios are always hard to come by for those. Everyone is either Eleanor Roosevelt or Beyoncé. These give kids some lesser known options plus an environmental tie in which is often appealing to kids.
Encounter Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books.
It is about a woman who smuggled babies out of the Warsaw Ghetto. It was too dangerous for her to keep lists of the children’s names etc. so she wrote down the information and buried it in jars, hoping to be able to help reunite the children with their families eventually.
Those are just a few of my recent favorites but I wanted to share over 100 books and resources for Women's History Month in this post.Women's History Month Pinterest wall loaded with...
Women's History Month Books Pinterest wall.
As you can see, there are dozens and dozens of special ways to celebrate Women's History Month and to lift up women in our lives, libraries, classroom and throughout teaching everyday.