Women's History Month: Booklists & Classroom Resources

March is Women's History Month, and these books and classroom resources celebrate inspiring, imaginative girls and women. Many of the stories featured below highlight women who made history or lead by example, refusing to take "no" for an answer. 

These titles make great additions to curriculum units throughout the year.

Booklists

• Courageous Girls and Women: Asian Pacific American Heritage
• Latinas Who Made a Difference
• Native Women's History: American Indian Heritage
• Famous Authors and Librarians: Hispanic Heritage
• Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo
• Women in Science
• Sonia Sotomayor: Books for Kids and Teens
• The Life and Legacy of Pura Belpré
• My Mom and Me: Stories About Mothers
• Grandma and Me: Stories About Grandmothers

Take a look at these additional titles from Reading Rockets:

• Amazing Women
• Brave and Bold: Real Life Heroines (and Heroes)
• Inspiring, Imaginative Women
• Remarkable Women
• Then and Now: Interesting Girls and Women in Fact and Fiction
• Women (and a Few Girls) of Note
• More Women (and a Few Girls) of Note
• Women's History Month

In the Classroom

Lesson plans

• Women's History Month Collection (Share My Lesson)
• Women's History Month (PBS Learning Media)
• Celebrate Women's History Month (The New York Times)
• Women's History Month: 6 Lesson Plan Resources for Teachers (Edutopia)
• Women's History Month: A Collection of Teaching Resources (Scholastic)
• National Women's History Month (ReadWriteThink)

Resources & activities

• Women in the Arts (Kennedy Center)
• Women Who Inform Our World (Teaching Tolerance)
• Women's Suffrage (Teaching Tolerance)
• More Women's History Month Resources (Larry Ferlazzo)
• Women's History Resources (Facing History)
• Women's History (National Park Service)