Women’s History Month is the PERFECT time to uplift and showcase women’s stories, perspectives, and experiences. Here are some simple and easy ways – with resources to support them – to showcase Women’s History Month in the classroom this year!

Reading

Whether you choose to showcase non-fiction or fictional texts, you have options here. If you’re going the nonfiction route, you can choose texts, short stories, or newspaper articles that discuss real-life women who have made an outstanding impact on our world.

If reading fictional texts is more in alignment with the standards you’re currently trying to address in class, then it can be as simple as choosing books with strong female characters in them! Pick a book to read together in class OR have students choose a female character they have ALREADY read about.

Still not quite sure where to start? Here are some great texts that will get students excited about Women’s History Month.

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Conversations IRL

Get students out there interviewing the REAL WOMEN in their lives! Have students brainstorm what questions to ask or send them to the interview with questions you’ve selected for them. Check out some of the ideas below:

1. What is one lesson/motto/affirmation you’ve learned in life that you think everyone could benefit from?
2. Why is a woman’s voice/perspective important?
3. Who is a woman that you look up to and why?
4. How can we support the women in our lives (as a fellow female or as a male)?
5. How do you think women have positively impacted this world?
6. What do you see women doing now that will help build a better future?
7. What is one thing you wish you would’ve known as a younger woman (or human in general)?
8. What is a challenge that you face as a woman and how do you work to overcome it?
9. What aspect of being a woman are you grateful for?
10. What do you think women should pursue more of and how do we/they do it?

Journaling

Help students dig into their own brain to identify what THEY THINK about women’s history month and women’s topics. Facilitate a 30-Day writing challenge for March. Give students one prompt on the topic for each day and have them write for 5 minutes. Need prompts? I have options for you here.

Looking for a more cohesive journaling resource. You can choose this journaling set if you’d like to extend the activity throughout the month. If you’re looking for something that is more short and sweet. Check out these two freebies.

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Showing Gratitude

This is another super flexible option for celebrating Women’s History Month. Guide your students in GIVING BACK to the women of our world.

1. Write Thank You cards to a woman in their lives or to a community organization that supports women.
2. Volunteer throughout the community (depending on the age of your students). Create a list of locations that would welcome student volunteers – even if only for a couple of hours (or possibly as a whole class field trip!)
3. Complete an Acts of Service challenge. Make a list of 30 easy tasks students could do to give back to the women and girls in their lives, in the school, or in the world.
4. Creating a poster to showcase all the reasons they are GRATEFUL for women. Complete this as a whole class, small groups, partners, or individually.

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Keep it Simple

The reality is that honoring women doesn’t have to be complex or grandiose. We honor women by talking to them, by learning more about them, and by showing gratitude for them. What greater honor for women than to show our students HOW this is done and build the skills that will allow them to honor and uplift for their entire lifetime!

Often the simplest gestures speak the greatest volumes.

If you’d like to take a look at all of the Women’s History Month resources I’ve created, click on the link below.

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Happy Women’s History Month, friends 🚺 🩷