Learning Resource Type

Learning Activity

Women's Suffrage Gallery Walk

Subject Area

Social Studies

Grade(s)

6

Overview

This activity allows students to analyze photographs and political cartoons from the early 20th century during the Women's Suffrage Movement. Students will participate in a gallery walk around the classroom and put a modern twist on their comments about the photos by creating a #hashtag statement.

This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

    Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 6

    SS10.6.2

    Describe reform movements and changing social conditions during the Progressive Era in the United States.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:SS10.6.2

    Vocabulary

    • immigrants
    • reforms
    • movements
    • 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 21st amendments origin
    • Progressive Movement
    • Populists
    • temperance
    • trustbuster
    • muckraker
    • repeal
    • Homestead Act
    • child labor
    • corporation
    • civil rights
    • Ellis Island
    • Angel Island
    • workman's compensation
    • Civil Rights Movement
    • NAACP

    Knowledge

    Students will know:
    • Immigrant experiences at Ellis Island and Angel Island. Workplace reforms that took place during the Progressive Era (i.e., 8 hour work day, child labor laws, and workman compensation laws).
    • Key leaders of the Progressive Era that contributed to reforms in the United States (Theodore Roosevelt-National Parks System, Jane Adams-Hull House, Clara Barton-American Red Cross, Julia Tutwiler-Education/Prison Reform).
    • Social reforms of the Progressive Movement.
    • The early goals of the Civil Rights Movement and the purpose of the NAACP and other early civil rights organizations.
    • Provisions of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-first Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Identify impacts of historical events.
    • Describe historical movements by comparing and contrasting.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • There were causes and the effects, both immediate and lasting, of various reform movements pertaining to immigration, labor, political, social, and constitutional amendments during the Progressive Era in the United States.

    Phase

    After/Explain/Elaborate
    Learning Objectives

    Learning Objectives

    The student will be able to:

    • Explain the Progressive movement provisions of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
    • Describe reform movements and changing social conditions during the Progressive Era in the United States.

    Activity Details

    1. Divide students into small groups. Groups of three to four students work well.

    2. Each group will start at one of the photos.

    3. Give the class two to three minutes to study the photo and then create a #hashtag statement about the photo.

    4. After the timer has sounded the groups rotate to another photo and the process will start again.

    5. After each group has written on each photo the teacher or students can share some of their favorite #hashtag statements.

      Note: A hashtag statement is used on a social media site to enable users to search for topics by those keywords. Example: #classof2k19 this would refer to anyone that graduated in 2019. 

    Assessment Strategies

    Assessment Strategies

    Students would be assessed on the hashtag statement written on each photo. The hash tag statement should clearly show students understanding of the struggle for Women's Suffrage, the importance of the 19th Amendment, the opposition to the 19th Amendment, and/or the influence of the Progressive Era on the United States. 

    Variation Tips

    This lesson can easily be modified so that students can simply work in groups at their desks instead of moving around the room. The teacher can make several copies of the photos and place them in a folder and have the students analyze them as a group. 

    Background and Preparation

    Background / Preparation

    Prior Knowledge:

    Introduction to the Constitution and Amendments. 

    Know what the 19th Amendment says. 

    Content vocabulary 

    Materials -

    1. 5-8 pieces of butcher paper/giant post-it

    2. Photos from Women’s suffrage

    3. Markers (different colors)

    4. Timer 

    Prepare Activity-

    1. Tape one photo on the butcher paper/giant post-it (make sure you leave enough room for each group to write underneath the photo).

    2. Tape the butcher paper on the wall. (Post-it will stick to the wall.)

    3. Give each group a different color marker.

    Digital Tools / Resources

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