Women's History Month Webquest - Charterhouse School



Women's History Month Webquest

created by Lauren M. Bott, Librarian, St. Mary Magdalen School

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Grade Level:  7

Purpose:  To increase ease of navigation around the internet, while learning about important women throughout history.

Task:  Students will read the questions below and use the links to various sites to formulate their answers.  A completed answer sheet will be turned in by each student to Mrs. Bott or Mrs. Glenn.

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Questions:

 

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|1.  In 1938, Pearl S. Buck became the first American woman to win what | |

|prize, for what?  | |

|What two languages did she speak since childhood? | |

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| |4000 Years of Women in Science |

|2. What female architect designed over 600 buildings in California | |

|including Hearst Castle? | |

|What ancient Chinese empress developed the first paper from the bark of| |

|mulberry trees?  | |

|What famous children's story writer was also respected throughout | |

|England as an expert on fungi?  | |

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| |Women's Equity Resource Center |

|3.  What was Sojourner Truth's birth name?  | |

|What American Presidents did Sojourner Truth speak in front of?  | |

|What is the name of Sojourner Truth's most famous speech? | |

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| |Female Nobel Prize Laureates |

|4.  Why was human rights leader Aung San Suu Kyi unable to attend her | |

|Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in 1991? | |

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| |NWHP Biography Center |

|5.  What author and poet was born Marguerite Johnson? | |

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| |National Women's History Month |

|6.  Who was Alice Coachman, and what barrier did she break? | |

| |First Ladies Gallery |

|7.  What first lady had her own newspaper column? | |

|What first lady was the only first lady born outside the United States?| |

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| |Academy of Achievement |

|8.  What former Prime Minister of Pakistan had a great love for books | |

|and learning?  What did she read? | |

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| |Women in First Place |

|9.  Who was the first woman presidential candidate in the United | |

|States? | |

|Who was the first woman to found a major religion? | |

|Who was the first woman to be sent into space? | |

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| |Not for Ourselves Alone |

|10.  Who composed the declaration of Rights and Sentiments? | |

|What was one of its resolutions? | |

|Name two other women who worked with her on women's rights issues. | |

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©2002 Lauren M. Bott, Librarian, St. Mary Magdalen School.  Questions or concerns may be directed to Mrs. Bott at smmbottl@.

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