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Internet Resources for Women's History Month
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 Poster: National Women's History Project - 2008 The web site for the National Women's History Project offers a number of resources about women's history. www.nwhp.org/ The U.S. Census Bureau has compiled a set of demographic data related to women in the U.S. entitled Facts for Features: Women's History Month. www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/011179.html The U.S. Department of Education's FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence) site offers a collection of annotated links entitled Women's History Month Resources. www.free.ed.gov/subjects.cfm?subject_id=26 The Library of Congress' American Memory site has cataloged various resources into four collections on Women's History. memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Women's%20History  Gale's Women's History Month site has assembled a collection of activities and information to complement classroom topics. Within this site, teachers and students can read biographies of significant women throughout time, take a quiz based on women and their achievements, follow a timeline of significant events in women's history, and enjoy activities taken from the Women's History Month Resource Book and excerpts from Women's Rights on Trial. www.galegroup.com/free_resources/whm/ Scholastic's Teachers' page this month presents Women Who Changed History. teacher.scholastic.com/activities/women/ Scholastic's Women's History Month Article Archive lists links to women's history resources, profiles of notable women, civil rights activists, artists, athletes, political women, journalists, scientists, and "Women in Their Own Voices." teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/articlearchives/womhst/index.htm Infoplease 4 Teachers, a combined reference and teacher resource, has compiled a broad collection of online materials on its Women's History Month pages. teachers.infoplease.com/spot/womenshistory1.html The corresponding Information Please site for students is found at FactMonster. www.factmonster.com/spot/womenshistory1.html Education World has posted a curriculum article entitled "March Into Women's History Month" that includes a number of useful links to instructional resources. www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr058.shtml Presidential Proclamation of Women's History Month 2007. www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/02/20070228-1.html The US Department of State's International Information Programs' web site has a page dedicated to Women's History Month that includes many useful links to online resources and data concerning women and women's history in the United States. Click here for link. The New York Times Magazine has created an interesting dual Timeline of American and Women's history. www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/millennium/m2/wolf-timeline.html DISCLAIMER: This page contains various links to other websites and online resources available through government, nonprofit, and commercial entities. The links are provided solely for informational purposes and the convenience of the user. Clicking on a link here will take you outside the HISD Connect site. The posting of a link here does not signify the Houston Independent School District's endorsement of a site, nor is HISD responsible for any content posted on linked sites or the policies associated with those sites.
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U.S. Constitution Day (Sept. 17) and Celebrate Freedom Week resource list Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 - Oct. 14) resource list American Heritage Month (Nov.) resource list African American History Month (February) resource list Cinco de Mayo (May 5th) Asian-Pacific Islander Heritage (May) resource list |