Women's History Month 2026

This year’s theme, Women Shaping a Sustainable Future, invites us to explore the many ways women have led, innovated, and advocated for lasting change in our communities and our world. From environmental stewardship to civic leadership, women’s stories help students see how individual and collective action can shape a more just and sustainable future.

This curated collection offers engaging primary sources, inquiry-based lessons, and practical strategies aligned to the C3 Framework and disciplinary literacy practices—designed to help you weave women’s voices and contributions into joyful, meaningful social studies learning all year long.

Please feel free to reach out to us if you would like additional support, collaboration, or resources—we are excited to partner with you in this work!

~Stacie and Molly

Taking a trip to D.C. soon? Stop by the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument!

Visit the homepage of the site to learn more about the role the house played in the history of the women's rights movement, details of Alice Paul's life and work, as well as the site's many digital resources that you can bring into your classroom.

• National Women’s History Museum
• Rethinking Women’s History Month to Inspire Civic Action from NCSS (focused on K-5)

• Insist on Persistent Women: Women’s History in the K-8 Classroom from Learning for Justice

• A More Complete Women’s History from Learning for Justice

• Teaching in the Light of Women’s History from Facing History & Ourselves

Throughout Women’s History Month, the Center recognizes extraordinary American women throughout history, and celebrates accomplishments of American women who fought for freedom, equality, and equal rights for all Americans. Explore the landing page for Women's History Month at the National Constitution Center here.

As you build lesson plans, here are some educational resources and opportunities to incorporate learning about and celebrating women’s history:

• Scholar Exchanges: Topics include women and the Constitution and the 19th Amendment.
• Civic Stories: Story themes include artifacts from the women’s suffrage movement.

• Use our Constitution 101 teacher-led high school curriculum to teach about the road to the 19th Amendment and explore our Interactive Primary Source Tool: Historic Debates for and Against Suffrage.

The following virtual resources and programs are available for Women's History Month:

• Live From the Museum: The Stories of Revolutionary Women (Tuesday, March 10 at noon ET): A live virtual tour from our newest gallery, America’s Founding, exploring how women in the late 1700s helped forge a new nation. Register now
• Live From the Museum: Virtual Tour of the 19th Amendment (Tuesday, March 24 at noon ET): An interactive guided tour of our exhibit, The 19th Amendment: How Women Won the Vote, tracing the long fight for women’s suffrage. Register now

• Women’s History Month for the Classroom from the NEA
• Amelia Earhart Reader from PBS Learning Media

Celebrate the incredible contributions that women have made to the United States. With iCivics’ curated Women’s History Month resources, you can bring stories of remarkable women to life while supporting critical thinking and student engagement.

Plus, download printable bookmarks so students can carry women’s history with them through March and beyond!

In this clip and related activities, Yadina and her friends travel back in time to meet Helen Keller who helps them understand there are many different ways to learn. Use these resources to highlight Helen’s many accomplishments and inspire your students to keep trying, even when things are difficult.

• Women’s History Month for the Classroom from the NEA
• Background on Woman Suffrage from Stanford History Education Group
• Explore the History of Voting Rights in America from iCivics Dive into voting rights! Our latest customizable Google Slide Deck that provides an overview of voting in the U.S. from the 19th amendment and beyond— exploring the evolution of voting and how disenfranchised groups gained the right to vote.

• Students and the Struggle for School Integration from iCivics
• DocsTeach’s enormous Women’s Rights collection
• PBS Learning Media's Teaching Women's Suffrage collection
• Slide Deck created by Michigan Supreme Court Learning Center, features Justice Mary S. Coleman, the first woman to serve on the state's highest court. It focuses on her early life using primary sources (historical images and oral history). Reflection questions encourage students to see how her life can inspire behaviors that help them to achieve.
• Unladylike2020 from PBS LearningMedia

• The Notorious Women of Piracy | Rogue History from PBS Learning Media

• Six Essays on Women’s History from Facing History & Ourselves
• Women’s History Month for the Classroom from the NEA
• Background on Woman Suffrage from Stanford History Education Group
• PBS Learning Media's Teaching Women's Suffrage collection
• Students and the Struggle for School Integration from iCivics
• DocsTeach’s enormous Women’s Rights collection
• Slide Deck created by Michigan Supreme Court Learning Center, features Justice Mary S. Coleman, the first woman to serve on the state's highest court. It focuses on her early life using primary sources (historical images and oral history). Reflection questions encourage students to see how her life can inspire behaviors that help them to achieve.
• Unladylike2020 from PBS LearningMedia

• The Notorious Women of Piracy | Rogue History from PBS Learning Media

• The Poetry and Legacy of Phillis Wheatley from Ken Burns in the Classroom (PBS)

Click here to visit PBS's Rebel Girls from History collection, which focuses on the amazing, mostly forgotten women from the late 19th and early 20th century whose lives, actions, and sacrifices helped shape today’s America. They are educators, organizers, fighters, adventurers, and so much more.

Click above to check out the National Park Service's Commemorations and Celebrations!

Women & the American Story (WAMS) is a free curriculum website from the New-York Historical Society. WAMS connects educators with classroom resources that illuminate diverse women’s contributions to the American past.

Check out the collections from the OER Project. Use the search feature to find various topics about women's history.

Rediscover the complex life and legacy of the author, advocate and human rights pioneer. Helen Keller (1880-1968), who was deaf and blind since childhood, used her celebrity and wit to advocate for social justice, particularly for women, workers, people with disabilities, and people living in poverty.

All the videos and support materials in this collection incorporate accessibility features including ASL interpretation, descriptive transcripts, extended audio description, closed captioning, alternative text descriptions for primary source images, and accessible text-based handouts.

Visit this resource to learn more about the tools utilized to help make the film Becoming Helen Keller accessible for people who are blind or have limited vision, are deaf or partially deaf, or a combination of both.

Molly Gale: Molly.Gale@oakland.k12.mi.us

Stacie Woodward: Stacie.Woodward@oakland.k12.mi.us

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