Famous Women's History Month Research Project: Writing Activity & Bulletin Board

Celebrate Women’s History Month! This differentiated writing activity includes five research pages and themed templates for 30 famous females in history. It makes a beautiful classroom display, bulletin board, or digital project. You can do it in March - or anytime!

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This set is scalable. If you're short on time, you can use less pages. Want a full-blown research project? Use them all. (Or you can do something more in the middle.)

• For the simplest activity, assign only the first page (basic information).
• To add complexity, also assign the second page (challenges faced and people who helped).
• For the most complex assignment, add the third page (how history changed the person’s life, how the person changed history).
• A double timeline also helps kids visualize the cause-effect relationships.

It allows you to differentiate. Meet the needs of each you teach! You can assign the same number of research sheets to every student or vary requirements for differentiation.

You can let kids collaborate (or not.) Fourth, fifth, or sixth grade students may work independently, as partners, or in small groups.

Printed pages make a stunning bulletin board or classroom display. They’re perfect for Women’s History Month – or anytime.

• For each person, you'll receive a page with a large picture of the person. Kids simply write important contributions at the bottom. When you only use this page, your class can whip up a beautiful display - or collective biography of famous women - in one class period.
• Themed writing paper with a small picture of the person lets kids write. Whether it's a bulleted list or research paper, it also makes a great display.
• For the largest bulletin board - and most wow factor - staple both pages side-by-side on a large piece of construction paper.

It's digital too. Want to go paperless? Two options await you.

• Share forced Google Slides with your students.
• Let them respond with Easel Activities.

Everything you need for your classroom or homeschool is included. Just print (or share) and go!

• Lesson plans
• Lists of famous females (for student assignments)
• 3 sheets of research questions (use all or vary to differentiate instruction)
• Double timeline
• Works cited sheet
• 32 contribution pages, each featuring the name and large photo
• 32 themed writing pages, each featuring the name and small photo
• Cover sheets for bulletin board or collaborative collection
• Editable rubric

Each student or group explores one woman:

• Jane Addams
• Susan B. Anthony
• Clara Barton
• Elizabeth Blackwell
• Nellie Bly
• Ruby Bridges
• Molly Brown
• Rachel Carson
• Catherine the Great
• Cleopatra
• Marie Curie
• Amelia Earhart
• Elizabeth I
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Anne Frank
• Indira Gandhi
• Jane Goodall
• Helen Keller
• Margaret Mead
• Mother Teresa
• Florence Nightingale
• Annie Oakley
• Rosa Parks
• Sally Ride
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Wilma Rudolph
• Sacagawea
• Maria Tallchief
• Harriet Tubman
• Madame C.J. Walker

Looking for something more specific for Women’s History Month? Check out my famous female inventors research project.

Enjoy teaching biography!

Brenda Kovich