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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Medieval Madness

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students complete a critical reading of the novel "The Midwife's Apprentice." During their reading, students create several journal responses to the character's situation and transformation. Working with computers, students complete...
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Website
Historica Canada

History by the Minute: Midwife

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of a video series, this clip dramatizes the importance of the midwife in Canadian history. Learn about the long history of these invaluable women, and their role in a new land. As time passed, women's hospitals and birthing rooms...
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Activity
Other

Do History: Martha Ballard's Diary Online

For Students 9th - 10th
This site invites viewers "to piece together the life and world of an "ordinary" person from the past." The site boasts thousands of original documents that include diaries, maps, letters, and court records of a midwife from...
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Handout
Other

Public Art in Los Angeles: Biddy Mason's Place

For Students 9th - 10th
Features part of an exhibit at the University of Southern California that provides a chronology of Biddy Mason's life.
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Handout
Other

Auw St. Lawrence County Branch: Women of Courage

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn what it means to have courage by examining the lives of women who "Were pioneers in their fields, which included education, medicine, art, politics, and music." This page includes biographies of several women including scientist...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Midwife Checks Mother/twp

For Students 9th - 10th
A news article(1997)about a Ethiopian Midwife. A midwife is a woman who helps other women give birth, in the absence of a doctor or because there is no doctor.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Midwife Attends to Child/twp

For Students 9th - 10th
A news article(1997)about a Ethiopian Midwife. A midwife is a woman who helps other women give birth, in the absence of a doctor or because there is no doctor.