Women’s History Project – Classroom Display Class Quilt (40 Influential Women!)

Description

Women’s History Month Class Quilt Project and Display: This project contains 40 influential women. Students will do a mini research on an assigned (or chosen) woman and complete their part of the display. After the individual pages are completed, they fit together to create a large class quilt. It can be displayed in the classroom or in a common area of the school to show off just how appreciated the women who made such a difference in the world are! Studying women’s history can be be very meaningful for your students!!

What’s Included in this Project?

A quilt page for each of the following amazing people important to Women’s History

• Ada Lovelace – considered the first computer programmer
• Althea Gibson – tennis player, first black athlete to cross the color line of international tennis
• Ann Bancroft – explorer, first woman to cross ice caps to reach the North & South Poles
• Anne Frank – author, one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust
• Audrey Hepburn – actress, humanitarian
• Aung San Suu Kyi – political leader in her country of Myanmar, Nobel Peace Prize Winner
• Betsy Ross – credited with making the first American flag
• Billie Jean King – tennis player, advocate for gender equality
• Clara Barton – pioneering nurse, founded the American Red Cross
• Connie Chung – important American journalist
• Danica Patrick – race car driver
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton – suffragist, leading figure of the early women’s rights movement
• Florence Nightingale – founder of modern nursing
• Frida Kahlo – Mexican painter best known for her self-portraits
• Hillary Clinton – American politician, Secretary of State
• Hypatia – the earliest (documented) female mathematician + astronomer
• Indira Gandhi – fourth Prime Minister of India
• Irma Rangel – Mexican-American politician, attorney, activist
• Jackie Joyner-Kersee – athlete, ranked among the greatest in the women’s heptathlon
• Jane Goodall – primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, UN Messenger of Peace
• Joan of Arc – heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint
• Kamala Harris – first woman (and POC) to serve as the Vice President of the US
• Katharine Hepburn – actress, known for her fierce independence and spirited personality
• Kristi Yamaguchi – first Asian American woman to win a gold medal in a Winter Olympic competition
• Louisa May Alcott – author of the novel Little Women
• Mae Jemison – physician, NASA astronaut, first African American woman to travel in space
• Margaret Thatcher – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• Marie Curie – physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity
• Maya Angelou – author, poet
• Michelle Kwan – Most decorated figure skater in U.S. history
• Mindy Kaling – American actress and comedian
• Mother Teresa – religious sister and missionary
• Oprah Winfrey – media proprietor, talk show host, actress, philanthropist
• Queen Elizabeth II
• Rachel Carson – marine biologist + pioneer in the global environmental movement
• Sally Ride – the first American woman in space
• Sandra Day O’Conner – first woman appointed to the Supreme Court
• Sonia Sotomayor – first Supreme Court justice of Latino heritage
• Vera Wang – fashion designer and editor and one of the most famous bridal designers in America

A blank template is included to add your own favorite women in history.

Teacher Tips

• Study one woman each day in the month of March (Women’s History Month)
• Allow each student to research one famous woman
• Staple pages together to make the quilt OR attach the pages together by punching a small hole in the corners and tying them together

Happily brought to you by Rachel Lynette and Cassi Noack of Minds in Bloom.