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Posted by: Danna Bell
Creatively sharpen your students thinking skills with headlines. Encourage direct student involvement in a analyzing headlines through maps.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Anne Savage
Find unique primary sources for every day of the school year at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Teaching Tools
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Teachers and school librarians! If you’re coming to the National Book Festival this weekend, stop by the Library of Congress pavilion to say hello to the Library’s education staff.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
As of today teachers and students--and everyone else--have a new and incomparable place to learn about legislation and the nation's legislative body: Congress.gov.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Newspapers offer rich examples of complex text, and they often have features to help readers understand and put it into context. Chronicling America offers digitized historical newspaper pages from 1836-1922, including a time-saving list of Recommended Topics. In this election season, I was drawn to the pages about presidential elections. Here are a few particulars that caught my attention, with teaching ideas that came to mind.
Posted in: Government and Law, Lesson Ideas, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
How do 21st century children respond to photographs of child labor? Barbara Natanson, who works in the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress, recently wrote a blog post about what her children saw in selected photographs that Lewis Hine took for the National Child Labor Committee. Replicating what Barbara did would be an easy way to introduce students to learning with primary sources.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Danna Bell
Did you know that debates weren’t a standard part of the presidential election campaign until 1960?
Posted in: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)
Posted by: Danna Bell
On September 17 we take a moment to celebrate the signing of the United States Constitution. This year also take a moment to celebrate the man who is considered the “Father of the Constitution,” James Madison.
Posted in: Teaching Tools
Posted by: Anne Savage
Helping students get to know one another is important in the first few weeks of school. Did you know that using primary sources from the Library of Congress can help you accomplish this?
Posted in: Teaching Strategies