Bring influential historical figures to life with a highly interactive and informative activity. Your class members will research important activists during the women's suffrage movement and then share what they have learned by role playing as those figures in a "wax museum".

Concepts

women's suffrage, women's rights, the suffrage movement

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Additional Tags

women's suffrage, suffrage movement, women's rights, social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Activity is easily adaptable to study of prominent figures from other historical periods

Classroom Considerations

• Designing a rubric would help to give learners greater understanding and focus in their task
• Will require some time to prepare room and materials for presentation, as well as to consider specific requirements for writing and research portion of activity

Common Core

SL.6.4 SL.7.4 SL.8.4 WHST.6-8.7