Start the School Year with Library of Congress Teacher Resources

It may not feel much like fall in most of the U.S., but even in the absence of autumn leaves, school doors are opening and educators are preparing for–or beginning–a new year of teaching.

In that spirit, we’d like to welcome you to another year of teaching using primary sources from the online collections of the Library of Congress! The Library offers millions of primary sources for free to all on its Web site, loc.gov, and its education program supports teachers as they use these powerful items effectively in the classroom.

As you plan for the coming year, we invite to explore our teacher resources and to watch for some exciting developments that we have in the works.

• The Library of Congress Teachers page provides ready-to-use classroom materials and professional development that support teaching with the Library’s online collections.
• The Library’s Student Discovery Sets are a dozen free interactive ebooks for iPads that let students examine and annotate primary sources.
• Our archive of professional development webinars provides an easy way to discover instructional strategies for working with our primary sources.
• The Library will hold its first online conference for teachers on October 27^th and 28^th, from 4 to 8 PM. Watch for more details!
• The Library publishes recurring features in the journals of the National Council on the Social Studies, the National Science Teachers Association, and the National Association for Music Education.

Subscribe to the Teaching with the Library of Congress blog and follow our Twitter feed, @TeachingLC, to keep up with the latest news for educators from the Library. In the meantime, please let us know in the comments or via Twitter what you’d like to see from us, or how you’ve used Library of Congress materials, primary sources, or ideas in your own teaching. We’d love to hear from you!