Looking at the 19th Amendment and the voting-rights struggles that continued for women of color afterward, students learn about suffrage activists and discuss ongoing challenges to voting access today.

A crowdsourced bibliography from Philadelphia educators pairing children’s books with the civic themes they teach, from becoming a change agent to understanding the electoral process, for further reading beyond the core lesson list.

Written with a 2nd-grade collaborator, this lesson uses Maddi’s empty fridge to introduce food insecurity, asking students to define the term in their own words and consider what they’d do if they were hungry.