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:
| |LitLinks |
|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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