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Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Sharing ideas is a critical part of all great teaching, and now the Library of Congress has a new tool for exchanging ideas with the nation’s K-12 teachers: @TeachingLC, its new Twitter feed for educators.
Posted in: News and Events, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
But writing poetry—writing a stream of words, with letters of various sizes, with exclamation points and question marks—allows me to capture my emotions better than neatly composed prose does.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Timelines are timesavers for busy teachers, and the Teaching with the Library of Congress blog has highlighted some. The Teachers page offers even more, and the busy start of school seems like an auspicious time to point out a few.
Posted in: Teaching Tools
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Part of the power of teaching with primary sources comes from their immediacy—eyewitness accounts of historic events can have an emotional impact that secondary sources might lack. This is especially true of primary sources relating to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Posted in: Contemporary United States (1945-present), Lesson Ideas, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
This Constitution Day, we can look back at some of the processes laid out in the Constitution and use a new tool from the Library of Congress, Congress.gov, to see how they're being used today.
Posted in: Teaching Tools
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
“What I did on my summer vacation” has been a favorite theme of back-to-school essays and posters for generations! This fall, the education team at the Library of Congress approached this staple assignment with a bit of a twist.
Posted in: Lesson Ideas
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
The hour-long program will start with an analysis of a primary source related to Constitution Day and participants will be invited to discuss instructional strategies that can be used with primary sources. In addition, education specialists will highlight resources related to Constitution Day for teachers from the Library’s vast online collections.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Danna Bell
September highlights include the first celebrated Labor Day and the publication of the nation’s first daily newspaper.
Posted in: Lesson Ideas
Posted by: Danna Bell
Would your students be willing to march for something they believed in? On August 28, 1963 more than 250,000 people came to the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Posted in: African American History, Contemporary United States (1945-present)