With the publication in 1984 of "Notable Women of Hawaii," edited by Barbara Bennett Peterson, women's activities and accomplishments began to be accorded their rightful place in the traditional picture of Hawaiian history. Using this book as a text, a 16-week course entitled "Outstanding Women of Hawaii" was recently added to…

Surveys ways history instructors can assimilate an equitable treatment of women into state and local history courses. Discusses advantages and disadvantages of six teaching approaches and recommends using an integrated approach. (Author/CK)

Presents activities to help elementary students celebrate women's history month by learning about women's struggles and achievements throughout history, changes in women's roles, and the difference one person can make. Activities let students use writing, drawing, critical thinking, listening, speaking, and research skills. A student fact-page is…

The suggested framework for analyzing women's history considers two dimensions of past female experience. These are human-specific dimensions that women share to a considerable degree with men, and female-specific dimensions that women have in common with one another and for the most part do not share with men. (Author/DB)

Discusses two sets of activities, one for elementary and one for secondary, to be used during Women's History Month. Provides a textbook checklist, to be used by high school students, to evaluate the coverage of women's history in-class readings. Includes addresses from which to order additional materials. (GEA)

Suggestions are made for the successful incorporation of museum materials in instruction focusing on women's history in the United States. (JH)

Discusses how women's history can be incorporated into western civilization/world history and U.S. history survey courses. Four approaches are suggested: biographical; political; historical; and a family/community history approach. An annotated listing of materials with which to teach each approach is provided. (RM)

Asserts that, despite an increased awareness of the need to include the contributions and perspectives of women in the curriculum, topics are not being integrated into the social studies curriculum. Includes a biographical sketch of Susan B. Anthony and a list of women's studies curriculum resources. (CFR)

Provides information concerning the diversity of women's lifestyles who lived on the U.S. frontier during the 19th century. This excerpt contains a lesson plan and teaching strategies for the study of Black women who went West. The larger work is an attempt to focus upon neglected areas of women's frontier experiences and includes an extensive…

A teacher's guide for three junior high school units on women in United States history is presented. Designed to supplement what is customarily taught in United States history courses, the units focus on Native American women in Pre-Columbian America, Southern women from 1820 to 1860, and women as immigrants and workers from 1820 to 1940. The…

Describes the qualities of African-American quilts. Explains how to organize a classroom to reflect the polyrhythmic structure of the African-American culture and its quilts. This allows students to experience a different culture and therefore judge it by its own standards rather than by the norms of White middle-class America. (JS)

Describes a collaborative project using materials from "The American Girls Collection" series of children's books with preservice teachers and elementary students to practice small-group classroom teaching skills within a social-studies methods course. Outlines the project steps and evaluates the effectiveness for both elementary students and…

Contends that, although the role of women in the U.S. military and on the homefront during World War II has received increased attention, the service of the civilian women pilots has not been adequately recognized. Presents a classroom lesson on the origins and work of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP's) during World War II. (CFR)

This sourcebook, in two parts, aims at supplementing the limited material dealing with women's history normally found in junior and senior high school U.S. history textbooks. The lessons were developed by teachers at an intensive summer institute dealing with women's issues. The teachers and their colleagues field-tested the lessons and revised…

This bulletin contains suggestions to help secondary teachers teach about the histories of groups that have too often been ignored by historians and whose histories, when they were recounted at all, have been told largely from outside perspectives. It focuses on women, the family, workers, Native Americans, and other people frequently neglected in…