Part of the National Women's History Project funded to promote the multi-cultural study of women in history, this unit will help kindergarten students learn about the contributions that women have made to U.S. society. The developers believe that equality cannot be achieved until equality is expected and until the contributions of all women are understood and accepted as a simple matter of fact. The unit contains six lessons based on biographies of women who represent the many ways in which women have been and continue to be heroes. The women are Amelia Earhart, Queen Liliuokalani, Sonia Manzano, Maria Tallchief, and Sojourner Truth, representing major ethnic groups, and Harriet Tubman as a representative of disabled women. Each unit begins with a biography that teachers are to read to students. Discussion questions and suggestions for classroom activities follow each biography. Student materials are provided. Examples of activities include having children retell the story in their own words, play games, sing songs, and participate in class discussions. A bibliography of additional resource materials dealing with each woman concludes the unit. (RM)