famous women concentration

Students will love to learn more about Famous Women in History with this"Concentration" activity. At the same time, students will be developing valuablememory skills.

Mount the card sets on posterboard and laminate for greaterwear.

Two students can play the gameby shuffling the cards and layingthem facedown on a table top.Each player takes turns revealingtwo cards at a time, trying tomatch the famous-woman cardwith her achievement card. If thecards match, the player keepsthem and selects again until thecards do not match. Cards thatdo not match are returned totheir exact spot and the playerforfeits his or her turn to theother player.

The game continues until allcards are matched. The playerwith the most cards wins thegame.

Additional cards can easily bemade by assigning a famouswoman to each student in class.

Ask each child to write the nameof their woman on a pre-cutsquare of poster board and heraccomplishments on another.

Play the same game as describedabove.

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ElizabethCady Stanton

ClaraBarton

HarrietTubman

EleanorRoosevelt

AmeliaEarhart

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WilmaRudolph

HelenKeller

Sandra DayO'Connor

SojournerTruth

BabeDidrikson

Sacagawea

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This talented Olympic athletewas one of 19 children. Sheovercame childhood paralysisto win three gold medals during the 1960 Olympicgames.

This woman was born bothdeaf and blind. She overcameher handicaps and taught her-self to speak. She gave numer-ous lectures across the countrythat were dedicated to chang-ing society's attitude toward thedisabled.

This woman was named thefirst female Supreme CourtJustice of the United States.

This woman was born intoslavery but later spoke out forhuman rights. She traveled thecountry speaking at anti-slaverymeetings and helped ex-slavesrebuild their lives as free people.

This woman was the firstfemale Olympic champion. Shewon gold medals in the 80m,hurdles, and javelin, and a silver medal in the high jumpduring the 1932 Games.

Without this Native Americanwoman, explorers Lewis andClark might have never com-pleted their journey of thenorthwest region of the U.S.She served them as both guideand interpreter during their8,000 mile expedition.


This woman was a determinedcrusader for women's right tovote. She was once arrested forattempting to vote. Her faceappears on the dollar coin.

This woman organized the firstWomen's Rights Convention.She encouraged other womento fight for the right to ownproperty, obtain an educationand to vote and hold office.

This courageous woman tendedwounded soldiers during theCivil War. She later organizedthe American Red Cross, whichprovides relief during bothwartime and peacetime emergencies.

Before the outbreak of the CivilWar, this escaped slave made atotal of nineteen trips to theSouth to lead other slaves tofreedom. She was later knownas the "Moses" of her people.

This president's wife devotedherself to a career of socialreform. After her husband'sdeath, she was appointed theU.S. representative to theUnited Nations and laterbecame chairperson of theHuman Rights Commission.

This woman's love of flying ledher to many "firsts." She wasboth the first woman to earn apilot's license and the firstwoman to fly solo across theAtlantic Ocean.


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