Celebrate Women’s History Month with COMPASS

• TeachingBooks: Explore three levels of women’s history teaching ideas to use in your classroom or library.
  • Connecting to Picture Books
  • Connecting to Chapter Books
  • Connecting to Books for Older Readers

Take a look at these additional resources about amazing women past and present, or these for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

• Britannica School articles on women’s history month at the elementary, middle, and high school level. 
• Gale’s Nat Geo Kids  has more than 700 ebooks on LOTS of topics – great for grades K-8. A  few titles for Women’s History Month:
  • The Book of Heroines: Tales of History’s Gutsiest Gals
  • Taking Cover: One Girl’s Story of Growing up during the Iranian Revolution
  • Girls Can!: Smash Stereotypes, Defy Expectations, and Make History!
  • The Book of Queens: Legendary Leaders, Fierce Females, and Wonder Women Who Ruled the World
• ProQuest’s SIRS Discoverer is a great tool to use with beginning researchers (grades 4-9). It provides guided research pages with multiple viewpoints on current events related to science, social studies, health and technology. Use it to support persuasive writing, biography reports, current issue assignments & more. Here’s an example of a research topic page on the gender pay gap. 
• Spend some time browsing our 20+ Alexander Street collections to find audio and video content to support all subjects (and for entertainment and inspiration!):
  • Fly With Me (from the PBS video collection) tells the story of the pioneering women who became flight attendants at a time when single women were unable to eat alone in a restaurant or have their own credit card.
  • Also from PBS, this American Experience episode on author Zora Neale Hurston is a biography of the author whose work challenged assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority.
  • The North American Women’s Drama collection contains 1,500+ rare or hard to find plays, highlighting new and important voices
  • The Struggle and Protest playlist in the Smithsonian Global Sound collection features spoken word recordings and songs related to civil, labor, and women’s rights, and more.

ProQuest & Alexander Street resources require authentication through your district.

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