A Grateful Farewell to Earnestine Sweeting, Library of Congress Teacher in Residence
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
The Library says goodbye to its 2011-2013 Teacher in Residence, Earnestine Sweeting.
Posted in: News and Events
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Our Favorite Posts: Crossing the Delaware: General George Washington and Primary Sources
Posted by: Anne Savage
There's nothing like primary sources to make you question your prior knowledge, and this blog post has several that surprise, spark interest, and make you want to learn more. Along with the suggested teaching activities, which are useful across most grade levels, these primary sources can help your students explore a famous historical event from several different perspectives including that of George Washington himself.
Posted in: Fine and Performing Arts, Revolution and the New Nation (1764-1815)
Our Favorite Posts: National Deaf History Month: Exploring Deaf Culture with Library of Congress Primary Sources
Posted by: Danna Bell
National Deaf History Month, March 13 to April 15, celebrates deaf history and promotes awareness of American deaf culture. Library of Congress primary sources provide interesting glimpses into this rich cultural heritage for your students to explore.
Posted in: Culture and Folklife, Government and Law
Blog Round-Up: Informational Text for Meeting Your Standards
Posted by: Danna Bell
Like many readers of the Teaching with the Library of Congress blog, we have identified strategies related to the Common Core’s instructional “shift” toward integrating more informational texts into literacy programs. Today’s summer blog round-up pulls together five posts packed with ideas for using informational texts from the Library’s collections.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies, Teaching Tools
Our Favorite Posts: From Flight to Discovery
Posted by: Danna Bell
As my colleagues know one of my favorite things is to show how primary sources can be used to help teach science or math.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math
Our Favorite Posts: Kindergarten Historians
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
I love getting to see the students in Teresa St. Angelo's kindergarten classroom engage with the films and photographs and carefully identify evidence, of course. But the photos and stories in this post are also a valuable reminder that primary sources are powerful teaching tools at any grade level.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies, Young Learners
From Flight to Discovery with Alexander Graham Bell’s Papers
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
It didn't occur to me until recently that my math lesson was missing a primary source. After a simple search for "tetrahedron" or "tetrahedral kites" on the Library of Congress Web site, I was fascinated to find primary sources that could have enriched my geometry and measurement lessons.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math, Teaching Strategies, Young Learners
Kindergarten Historians: Primary Sources in an Early Elementary Classroom
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
If you’ve ever wondered how early elementary students develop historical thinking skills, check out this lesson with a group of kindergarten historians. The Class of 2025 demonstrated their educational readiness while engaged in analyzing primary sources from the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies, Young Learners
Teaching with Short Texts: Primary Sources from the Library of Congress Say More with Less
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Sometimes one page can say more about a subject--and about the writer--than a thousand. Short texts from the Library of Congress, including letters and telegrams, can be used to help students unpack meaning and make inferences about the authors.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math, Teaching Strategies