Women of Accomplishment: an Internet Scavenger Hunt

Women of Accomplishment: An Internet Scavenger Hunt

DIRECTIONS: Neglected for years, the historical contributions of women are celebrated during March, the official National Women's History Month. Supplement your textbooks with the other half of history―the achievements of women―by posing a question about women's history during every school day of the month!

Day Rosa Parks 1 How many days did the Montgomery bus boycott last? http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html Day Jackie Joyner-Kersee 2 How many Olympic medals did she earn? http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016055.html Day Sacajawea 3 What famous team of explorers did she travel with? http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/sacajawea.html Day Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony 4 What prominent organization did these two women form in 1869? http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/resources/index.html?body=biography.html Day Janet Reno and Madeleine Albright 5 What jobs did these women hold during Bill Clinton's presidency? http://www.wic.org/bio/jreno.htm http://www.biography.com/people/madeleine-albright-9179300#leader-in-world- affairs Day Betsy Ross 6 Who asked her to make the first American flag? http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagtale.html Day Harriet Tubman 7 How many slaves did she help escape to freedom? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html Day Sally Ride 8 What sport did this famous astronaut play as a young woman? http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/ride.html Day Helen Keller 9 What is the title of her autobiography? https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/helen-keller/ Day Sonia Sotomayor 10 Which president nominated her to the Supreme Court? https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/biography-sonia- sotomayor/

Women of Accomplishment: An Internet Scavenger Hunt

Day Amelia Earhart 11 What year did Earhart complete her historic transatlantic solo flight? http://www.ameliaearhart.com/about/bio.html Day Georgia O'Keeffe 12 O’Keeffe was the first woman artist to have a retrospective at this museum? http://www.biography.com/people/georgia-okeeffe-9427684#synopsis Day Toni Morrison 13 What award did she win in 1993? https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/166281/Morrison,%20Toni.pdf?s equence=1&isAllowed=y Day Hillary Clinton 14 To what official role did President Bill Clinton appoint her? https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/first-ladies/hillaryclinton Day Equal Rights Amendment 15 Who first drafted the ERA, passed by the Senate in Day 1972? https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/march-22-1972-equal-right- amendment-for-women-passed-by-congress/?_r=0 Day Molly Pitcher 16 What heroic acts did she perform during the Battle of Monmouth, in June 1778? https://www.britannica.com/biography/Molly-Pitcher Day Clara Barton 17 How long did Barton serve as president of the American Red Cross? http://www.redcross.org/about-us/history/clara-barton Day Gloria Steinem 18 Which two magazines did she help found? https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/gloria-steinem/ Day Sandra Day O'Connor 19 What "first" did she accomplish in the Arizona Senate? http://www.loc.gov/rr/women/oconnor.html Day Eleanor Roosevelt 20 What was the title of the newspaper column she wrote? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/peopleevents/pande01.html Day Make up a question about a famous woman from your state. 21 Day Make up a question about a famous woman from your state. 22 Day Make up a question about a famous woman from your state. 23