Looking back at this project...
Recreation of the Seneca Falls Convention.
Women’s rights are something that we take advantage of everyday, yet many of us don’t know where or how they started. I chose to create a digital museum based on the Seneca Falls Convention in order to educate myself in the research and educate others in the final product. As a woman, I was quite surprised to find out how little I knew about the subject. There are so many lessons integrating the importance of men in our society that I think the important roles that women have played have been left out or forgotten. I enjoyed this topic because it made me realize that women’s rights didn’t just start out in the early 20th century where many social studies lessons focus, but that women had been fighting for social equality for 70 years before that!
This website could be used in conjunction with other materials for women’s rights month or as a lesson in the birth of the women’s rights movement. I chose to research my project from educational and government websites and journals in order to get the most accurate information. Elementary students are very visual and I believe that in order to better understand the concepts that I presented textually the students will need to be visually stimulated as well. I based my choice of images on those that provoked emotion and helped tell a story along with the text. I believe this website could fit into an elementary student's learning by helping them understand the history behind the rights that they have today.
This website criteria meets the North Carolina Standard Course of Study for fifth grade:
EX.5.C&G.2.1 Analyze the rights and responsibilities of individuals in a group
5.C&G.2.4 Explain why civic participation is important in the United
States.
This website could be used in conjunction with other materials for women’s rights month or as a lesson in the birth of the women’s rights movement. I chose to research my project from educational and government websites and journals in order to get the most accurate information. Elementary students are very visual and I believe that in order to better understand the concepts that I presented textually the students will need to be visually stimulated as well. I based my choice of images on those that provoked emotion and helped tell a story along with the text. I believe this website could fit into an elementary student's learning by helping them understand the history behind the rights that they have today.
This website criteria meets the North Carolina Standard Course of Study for fifth grade:
EX.5.C&G.2.1 Analyze the rights and responsibilities of individuals in a group
5.C&G.2.4 Explain why civic participation is important in the United
States.
Top image: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-su-yqfIdZnA/T2YxgQM2c2I/AAAAAAAADek/fiqWt_DXlig/s1600/bellinghamsuffragists.jpg
Recreation image: http://interactive.wxxi.org/files/images/highlights/SenecaFalls.jpg
Recreation image: http://interactive.wxxi.org/files/images/highlights/SenecaFalls.jpg