F a m o u s Wo m e n C o n c e n t r a t i o n !
Students will love to learn more about Famous Women in History with this
"Concentration" activity. At the same time, students will be developing valuable
memory skills.
Mount the card sets on poster
board and laminate for greater
wear.
Two students can play the game
by shuffling the cards and laying
them facedown on a table top.
Each player takes turns revealing
two cards at a time, trying to
match the famous-woman card
with her achievement card. If the
cards match, the player keeps
them and selects again until the
cards do not match. Cards that
do not match are returned to
their exact spot and the player
forfeits his or her turn to the
other player.
The game continues until all
cards are matched. The player
with the most cards wins the
game.
Additional cards can easily be
made by assigning a famous
woman to each student in class.
Ask each child to write the name
of their woman on a pre-cut
square of poster board and her
accomplishments on another.
Play the same game as described
above.
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Elizabeth
Cady Stanton
Susan B.
Anthony
Clara
Barton
Harriet
Tubman
Eleanor
Roosevelt
Amelia
Earhart
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Wilma
Rudolph
Helen
Keller
Sandra Day
O'Connor
Sojourner
Truth
Babe
Didrikson
Sacagawea
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This woman was born both
deaf and blind. She overcame
her handicaps and taught herself to speak. She gave numerous lectures across the country
that were dedicated to changing society's attitude toward the
disabled.
This talented Olympic athlete
was one of 19 children. She
overcame childhood paralysis
to win three gold medals
during the 1960 Olympic
games.
This woman was born into
slavery but later spoke out for
human rights. She traveled the
country speaking at anti-slavery
meetings and helped ex-slaves
rebuild their lives as free
people.
This woman was named the
first female Supreme Court
Justice of the United States.
Without this Native American
woman, explorers Lewis and
Clark might have never completed their journey of the
northwest region of the U.S.
She served them as both guide
and interpreter during their
8,000 mile expedition.
This woman was the first
female Olympic champion. She
won gold medals in the 80m,
hurdles, and javelin, and a
silver medal in the high jump
during the 1932 Games.
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This woman was a determined
crusader for women's right to
vote. She was once arrested for
attempting to vote. Her face
appears on the dollar coin.
This woman organized the first
Women's Rights Convention.
She encouraged other women
to fight for the right to own
property, obtain an education
and to vote and hold office.
This courageous woman tended
wounded soldiers during the
Civil War. She later organized
the American Red Cross, which
provides relief during both
wartime and peacetime
emergencies.
Before the outbreak of the Civil
War, this escaped slave made a
total of nineteen trips to the
South to lead other slaves to
freedom. She was later known
as the "Moses" of her people.
This president's wife devoted
herself to a career of social
reform. After her husband's
death, she was appointed the
U.S. representative to the
United Nations and later
became chairperson of the
Human Rights Commission.
This woman's love of flying led
her to many "firsts." She was
both the first woman to earn a
pilot's license and the first
woman to fly solo across the
Atlantic Ocean.
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