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Minitex staff and librarians who work with eLibraryMN, Ebooks Minnesota, Minnesota Digital Library, and Resource Sharing have come together to create Resource Packs for Minnesota schools! This month's pack features fiction, non-fiction, and primary sources about accomplished women, in honor of Women's History Month.
“Votes for Women” wagon in northern Minnesota, c. 1910. Northwest Minnesota Historical Center, https://collection.mndigital.org/catalog/mhd:143 Accessed 7 March 2024.
This month's Women's History resource pack celebrates the rich tapestry of women's history. From suffragists to scientists, activists to artists, women have shaped our world. This guide provides resources to highlight women's contributions across diverse fields and cultures.
Ebooks Minnesota provides a seemingly limitless array of stories, histories, and creative fiction that put women's stories on display. With unlimited simultaneous users, all of your youngest students can enjoy reading about amazing tales of women in rock music or trailblazing pilots, while your upper grades can study the accomplishments of Marie Curie and one of the first professional women's baseball teams.
Young learners can read the biographies of the famous women of history in PebbleGo and of today in Britannica, custom leveled to an early reading audience. Explora Kids provides a diverse, primary level appropriate results collection for women's rights, while Gale in Context Middle's Women's Rights topic collection delivers multimedia, primary sources, creative works, and periodicals that are a perfect introduction to higher level research.
For students ready to dive deep into the historical roots of the challenges women have historically faced, look through the American Antiquarian Society's collection of primary source newspaper articles and photographs highlighting women's stories. Britannica, Gale in Context, and Explora all feature curated collections of content for teachers and students to use to enhance research, discussion, and learning.
You can also introduce students to real Minnesota women who made history through the primary sources in the Minnesota Digital Library (MDL). Meet activists and educators, suffragists and legislators, witnesses and explorers, and women who were the first in their field - including Rosalie Wahl, the first woman appointed to the Minnesota Supreme Court.
These items and so many more are on the Resource Pack guide, and in the e-resources themselves. Have a topic that you'd like us to focus on in the future? Share it with us and we'll add it to the list!
*Resource Packs are theme-based and support Minnesota K12 Academic standards. We plan to release one resource pack per month during the school year, and fully review all content each summer to ensure that all resources are current and up to date. Please submit any ideas you have for resource pack topics that would be helpful for teachers and students and we will add them to the list of future topics.
Each pack will be in a Libguide format that librarians and teachers can share with colleagues. Resources will be curated around the month’s theme, and will be broken into tabs for younger and older students. Packs can be accessed by unlimited users with no login, and all links will be formatted to ensure seamless access within Minnesota borders.
