Celebrate Women’s History Month with these thirty-one ideas, one for each day of March, that recognize the achievements of women throughout history.
1. Have students search through the Women in History playlist on our Who Else Loves History? YouTube channel. Have them select a video to view and respond to in a journal entry or class presentation. Use videos from the playlist for learning during this month and throughout the school year.
2. Find a recipe to try at joyofcooking.com then, while enjoying it, view this video telling the story of how Irma Rombauer created the very first edition of the classic cookbook.
3. Take a time trip back to March 3, 1913 to discover what occurred at the first women’s suffrage mark held in Washington, D.C. Are you a teacher? Use the video as part of an introduction to a unit on the women’s suffrage movement.
4. Conduct a read-aloud of Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I A Woman” speech, then discuss its relevance to today.
5. Were you born between 1919 and 2022? Then check out this website to find an important event from women’s history that happened in your year of birth.
6. Discover children’s books that commemorate historic achievements by women, plus a board book that encourages even the youngest “readers” to have a voice.
7. Meet Sister Mary Antona Ebo, a black nun who marched for voting rights in Selma, Alabama.
8. Check out the International Women’s Day website for ways to celebrate and get involved in promoting the event.
9. Take a virtual tour of the National Women’s History Museum.
10. Looking for short videos to use throughout the month or entire school year to highlight interesting people and events in women’s history? Then look no further than our Women’s History Shorts playlist on our Who Else Loves History? YouTube channel.
11. Read some poetry by Emily Dickinson and then view an interview with her biographer to learn more about her life and work.
12. View Glynis Brooks as Harriet Tubman and then enjoy an interview with the actress. Use the video to inspire students to create their own one-person or group performance related to an individual or event in women’s history.
13. Enjoy Helen Reddy singing “I Am Woman.” Thinking of using the song in class with students? Have them discuss the lyrics of the song and the time it was originally released. Why do they think it became an anthem for the women’s movement?
14. Have you bought any Girl Scout cookies yet this year? Check out the history of the organization at their website.
15. Celebrate the birthday of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2nd female Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
16. Check out Women’s History Month events in your hometown to participate in.
17. Learn about trailblazing newspaper reporter Nellie Bly in this interview with author Louisa Treger.
18. Speaking about trailblazing women reporters, how about these amazing women who reported from the front lines of World War II?
19. Organize a speaker’s bureau of women from various professions in your community to come and speak to your class or the entire school.
20. Meet 20 powerful women and discover their world-changing stories on the Wonder Women in History Virtual Scavenger Hunt.
21. Create a classroom library with books by female authors.
22. Take a trip to the wild west in American history and learn about the Harvey Girls.
23. Enjoy a night with legendary actress Joan Crawford with a movie marathon on her birthday. IMDB recommends these movies to consider.
24. Celebrate the birthday of civil rights icon Dorothy Height who served over 40 years as President of the National Council of Negro Women.
25. Discover 22 pioneering women in science history you really should know about.
26. Enjoy a piece of birthday cake for Sandra Day O’Connor, first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice born March 26, 1930.
27. Who was the first African American tennis player to win the U.S. Open? Who was the first African American woman elected to U.S. Congress? Find out about many famous firsts in black history on Biography.
28. If you haven’t heard of her before, be sure to check out this documentary about legendary entertainer Josephine Baker.
29. Bake another birthday cake or take a slice from Sandra Day O’Connor’s in honor of legendary entertainer Pearl Bailey born on this day in 1918. View this performance from The Ed Sullivan Show.
30. Discover a wide variety of female artists and create an artwork of your own inspired by one of them.
31. End the month with a party celebrating women you learned about this month. Are you a teacher? Have each student share their favorite story about a woman achiever that they learned this month or come dressed as a woman hero they have come to admire. Remind them that they can continue to learn more at our Women in History playlist.
