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Archive: September 2014 (11 Posts)

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Share “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” Using Primary Sources

Posted by: Danna Bell

Last year the Educational Outreach Team provided a collection of primary sources that documented what we did on our summer vacation. This was such a popular post that we decided to share how we spent our summer vacations using primary sources. Enjoy this year's adventures and hopefully get some ideas on how you might incorporate primary sources to help you learn more about your students and their interests.

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Living the Dream: Reflections on a Year as Library of Congress Teacher in Residence

Posted by: Cheryl Lederle

In my first blog post as Teacher in Residence, I set a number of goals: to connect primary sources to literature, to create research questions to advance inquiry, and to foster library skills. I was able to meet these goals in a number of ways and to reach out to teachers and librarians with approaches to working with primary sources and teaching research skills.