Lesson
Interactive Suffrage Timeline
Guiding question
How did democratic participation expand in the United States?
Founding Principles
Virtues
Objectives
- Students will place major suffrage events on a collaborative timeline.
- Students will classify the events as expanding or restricting voting rights.
Materials
Student Resources:
Teacher Resources:
- Interactive Timeline of Suffrage Teacher Resource, printed and cut
- Sticky notes or markers
- Long butcher paper, string, or another method to create a physical timeline across a classroom wall
- (Optional Extension) Pre-made “event cards” with suffrage-related events (or students can create them)
Lesson Components
ActivityTimeline Reflection Handout
An activity to help students identify expansions and restrictions of voting rights over time.
Lesson plan
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