Unit 12: Changing Places

Women change their roles

Listed below are possible research or discussion topics, online lesson plans, resources and other materials.  As you look through this list please consider that this series can work for grades 4-12, with an emphasis on 7th grade. Also consider that the series will be used with different purposes for different grade levels. This is by no means a complete list of resources, and we cannot guarantee the life span and quality of the web site addresses.

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Possible Research Topics

  • Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Mansfield, MO
  • Almanzo Wilder
  • Climate
  • Agriculture
  • Missouri Ozarks
  • "Big Chief" notebook
  • Rose Wilder Lane
  • Rocky Ridge Farm
  • Women Suffrage
  • National Women's Rights
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • University City, MO - City Hall
  • Women's Magazine
  • E.G. Lewis
  • American's Women League

Lesson Plans

Online Resources

Bibliography

  • Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement

    Catt, Carrie Chapman

    Scribner

    New York, N.Y.

    1923

  • Woman Suffrage and Women’s Rights

    DuBols, Ellen Carol

    New York, University Press

    New York, N.Y.

    1998

  • Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Legend

    Miller, John E.

    University of Missouri Press

    Columbia, Mo.

    1979

  • The Capitol of the Women of America

    Hamilton, Esley

    Preservation Issues

    Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Historic Preservation Program

    Vol. 5, No. 2