Women and the Vote

Grade Levels: 5 - 8

Objectives

• Students will use navigational strategies within a website.
  
• Students will find out facts about the women's suffrage movement and the suffragists.

Materials

• Women's Suffrage activity sheet
  
• Internet Glossary
• Pencils
• Internet access

Procedures

1. Distribute the Internet Glossary.
2. Have students review Internet terms that may help them navigate the Internet.
3. Review terms as time allows, focusing on ones that students are likely to use, such as bookmarks, forward button, home button, and scroll.
4. Tell students they will find out about the women's suffrage movement by exploring a website you have bookmarked.
5. Model how to get to Not for Ourselves Alone (http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/index.html).
6. Distribute the Women's Suffrage activity sheet.
7. Remind students that all the information for completing this activity sheet can be found on the above website.
8. Encourage students to complete the entire website quiz as well as the activity sheet.
9. You might also have students note strategies they used to navigate the website and/or any problems they encountered.
10. Students share their thoughts and findings with each other.

Extension Activities

• Invite students to work independently or in groups to create timelines of the women's suffrage movement. Encourage students to illustrate their timelines.
• Students may enjoy performing a play chronicling important events in the suffrage movement leading up to the passing of the 19th Amendment. Or have students use a play as a springboard to creating their own scripts.

Standards Correlations

National Technology Education Standards
Students:
• are proficient in the use of technology.
• practice responsible use of technology systems, information, and software.
• develop positive attitudes toward technology uses that support lifelong learning, collaboration, personal pursuits, and productivity.

  National Social Studies Education Standards
  Students:

• apply key concepts such as time, chronology, causality, change, conflict, and complexity to explain, analyze, and show connections among patterns of historical change and continuity.
• investigate, interpret, and analyze multiple historical and contemporary viewpoints within and across cultures related to important events, recurring dilemmas, and persistent issues, while employing empathy, skepticism, and critical judgment.
• apply ideas, theories, and modes of historical inquiry to analyze historical and contemporary developments, and to inform and evaluate actions concerning public policy issues.

Assessment

Use the following scale to assess students' ability to evaluate a website, navigate within a website, and draw conclusions about women's suffrage.

4 – Exemplary Understanding
Student:

• skillfully and independently navigates to and at the site.
  
• locates the required information quickly and efficiently.
  
• accurately summarizes information found at the website.
  
• displays a thorough understanding of the suffrage movement.

3 – Competent Understanding
Student:

• uses sound navigational strategies without teacher prompting.
  
• locates the required information without help.
  
• summarizes information found at the website.
  
• displays an adequate understanding of the suffrage movement.

2 – Developing Understanding
Student:

• navigates at the site with teacher prompting and/or assistance from peers.
  
• locates the required information with assistance.
  
• summarizes information found at the site, but summary may be incomplete or inaccurate.
  
• can recall facts about the suffrage movement.

1 - Emerging Understanding
Student:

• understands navigational strategies when they are demonstrated by the teacher or peers.
  
• needs to work with the teacher or peers to complete the activity sheet.
  
• has difficulty summarizing the information found at the site.
  
• recalls few facts about suffrage and suffragists.

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