Women’s History Month Project Ideas for Middle School
These Women’s History Month project ideas are the perfect addition to your middle school history studies.
It’s important for kids to understand the important roles women have played throughout the years, but if this topic isn’t a regular part of your curriculum, consider taking some time during March to study famous women.
You can make it more interesting and interactive for your tweens by adding some hands-on activities like these to your lesson plans.
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Teaching About Women in History
The most important part of teaching kids about women in history is to expose them to as many remarkable ladies as possible. You need to be intentional about showing them how women have shaped our world and let them see for themselves the accomplishments they’ve achieved.
Keep in mind that this is a huge subject, so consider making it a regular part of your history curriculum. At the very least, set aside your normal lessons to focus on historical women during Women’s History Month.
As with any history studies, older kids understand the material best when it stimulates their creativity, which means activities, not textbooks. So use the project ideas below in your homeschool to celebrate various women heroes that have helped build our society.
Women’s History Month Activities
These 10 activities will help get your tweens excited to learn this part of history.
BrainPOP
We used BrainPOP for years in our homeschool. It’s an amazing resource that engages kids thanks to Tim and Moby. It includes a wide variety of topics, so it’s incredibly easy to add it to your lesson plans. You’ll find lessons, videos, games, and reading material highlighting several historical women.
For older kids, you can use the BrainPOP lesson as a springboard into a larger research project on a particular woman in history.
The Right to Vote
How much do your tweens know about the 19th Amendment? Do they realize that women have only been able to vote for just over 100 years? During women’s history month, take some time to discuss the suffragette movement and the powerful women behind it. Let them see for themselves the path women had to take to gain the right to vote.
Then, have your older kids pretend that they’re campaigning for women’s rights. They can make signs and write a speech. You could even set up your own polling stations and give everyone the chance to vote.
Match the Quote
Gather up famous quotes from women in history and print them off with each woman’s name. Then, challenge your tweens to match up the quote with the famous women who said it.
Tweens can then choose their favorite quotes and write them in a journal or use them to make a vision board.
Make an Astronaut Helmet
In honor of Sally Ride, the first woman in space, let your tweens make an astronaut helmet out of recycled materials.
Perform Skits
Have your older kids choose a famous woman in history to study and have them act out what made her famous. Not only will everyone learn a lot about a variety of historical figures, they’ll also understand more about the different time periods they lived in.
Plant Something
The story of Kate Sessions “the tree lady” is something neat to share with your science-loving tweens. Along with being the first woman to graduate from the University of California with a degree in science, Kate’s activism helped change San Diego forever, making it famous for its community green spaces.
Combine your study of this famous woman with a lesson in botany. Make it interactive by sprouting seeds or planting a tree in your yard.
Play Guess Who? With Famous Women
Playing a game is always a fun way to liven up your homeschool lessons. During Women’s History Month, adapt the classic game Guess Who? to focus on famous women throughout history.
You’ll need to print off faces of a variety of historical women and attach them to the game board. Then, kids will try to find out who the women are by asking their opponents questions related to the time period they lived in, their influence on history, and the legacy they left behind.
Fly Paper Airplanes
Dive into a study of famous female aviators, like Amelia Earhart. The Smithsonian Magazine has profiles on many women who made a name for themselves by flying.
As part of your lessons, learn how to make paper airplanes and have a contest to see whose design flies the furthest.
Go on a Virtual Scavenger Hunt
Send your kids on a virtual scavenger hunt to learn about 20 famous women throughout history. Once they’re finished, have each person share something interesting that they learned from the assignment.
There’s also an online Q&A about the women every day during the month of March that you can check out.
Create a Timeline
We used timelines extensively in our homeschool. They were a wonderful way for my kids to “see” history and how key events related to one another.
This month, help your tweens create their own women’s history timeline. First, have everyone choose important moments in history that relate to women that they want to include. Then, make your life-size timeline by printing off images that match each event or draw them directly onto the paper.
Don’t feel you need to complete this all at one time. Once you hang it up in your school area, you can easily add to it as you do more studying.
During Women’s History Month, work on some of these project ideas with your teens to help them learn about the amazing women who have shaped the world we live in.
Resources
Tools you can use as part of your women’s history study.
- The Who Was Biography Series – includes many titles about women.
- 100 Women Who Made History: Remarkable Women Who Shaped Our World
- Blank Wall Timeline Paper
More Ideas to Study Famous Women
Here are some additional things you can do with your older kids.
- Crossword puzzles are just one of these famous women of history resources you can use.
- You’ll want to add some of the best books about amazing women to your kids’ reading lists.
What’s your favorite way to celebrate Women’s History Month?
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