Lesson Planning
Learn about Emmeline Pankhurst and her fight for voting rights for women in Britain.
Children will:
- Learn about Emmeline Pankhurst.
- Create an Emmeline Pankhurst fact file.
- Learn about the suffragettes.
Campaign for Change
Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of
Awareness Days International Women's Day
Objectives
Art and Design
- Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.
English
- Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas
- Articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes including for expressing feelings.
- Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role-play, improvisations and debate.
History
- Learn about the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements.
Provided Resources
This session does not need any provided resources.
You Will Need
- Emmeline and the Plucky Pup’ by Megan Rix
- Photocopy extracts out of the book Emmeline and the Plucky Pup
- Fact file resource
- Voting station resources, e.g. recycled shoe box to make a ballet box, pens, area that children can vote
Weblinks
Emmeline Pankhurst - information video from bbc.co.uk
Book: Emmeline Plucky Pup by Megan Rix from amaozon.co.uk
Sister Suffragette's song and lyrics from stlyrics.com
International Women's day reading list from internationalwomensday.com
Information about Emmeline Pankhurst from kids.kiddle.co
How to vote -YouTube clip