Any engaging ideas for Women's History Month that have worked in your classes?

Jazmin Puicon , it is not really a high level activity, but I found that displaying some children's books about women will often start a conversation in class. We had a great discussion on Madame CJ Walker the other day after I displayed "The First Woman Millionaire!" A few of my students started watching a Netflix mini series that was based on her life after they learned about her from the book. I was surprised how many students had never heard her name before!

One thing I like to do during the various months is do a group self audit of our class curriculum thus far in the year. So basically I will be like: "in honor of ___ history month, I would like to do a self check and hold myself accountable for telling the often ignored history of _____ in our class. Today we will look through everything we have learned so far this year and count up all the times that ____ was mentioned. Then you will decide how well represented ____ is in the curriculum and suggest any changes to improve on our integration of _____ history." Kids like this kind of activity because it gives them a chance to criticize you and give you feedback  and also it does help hold me to account.

Here's an older thread that might help you! I assigned this Revolutionary Women Mini-Book Project to my 9th grade World History students at the beginning of the month. Then we had a "symposium" where they shared their books with each other and reflected on what they learned from each other.

LOVE THIS! Thanks for sharing!

If you try it out, let me know how it goes!