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Posted by: Danna Bell
This year's AASL National Conference and Exhibition will be held November 5-8 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio. You will find educational staff from the Library of Congress in the exhibit hall in booth 235 on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Danna Bell
Science and health teachers can tackle brain science using current and historical primary sources about football.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Danna Bell
Can you summarize the classic story The Cat in the Hat in one sentence? How about Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone or A Wrinkle in Time? This is just one small part of what librarians in the Children’s and Young Adults’ Cataloging Program or CYAC (pronounced kahy-ak) at the Library of Congress have been doing for decades. This week, the CYAC Program celebrates their fifty-year anniversary at the Library.
Posted in: Lesson Ideas, News and Events, Poetry and Literature, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Danna Bell
Viewing a film in class is a commitment of time and technology. Teachers want students to be active viewers, but most are more familiar with passively viewing film and video. How can teachers present film in a way that students are more likely to analyze its content? What aspects of viewing film may be beneficial to consider before analysis?
Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Danna Bell
In the October 2015 issue of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, our “Sources and Strategies” article featured a letter written by Thomas Jefferson a little more than 200 years ago. We suggested that Jefferson’s single page letter to his friend Samuel Harrison Smith, founder of the National Intelligencer, might serve to remind students that events in history often overlap one another.
Posted in: News and Events, Revolution and the New Nation (1764-1815)
Posted by: Danna Bell
One benefit of my job at the Library of Congress is that I get to learn some history and read critical analysis while also locating resources and finding ways to support teachers in the classroom. One topic that I continue to learn more about is the history of the ways in which the lives of Native Americans in the United States have been documented.
Posted in: Culture and Folklife, Native American History
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
We've already announced the Library's first online conference for teachers, "The Library of Congress and Teachers: Unlocking the Power of Primary Sources," and here's what we're looking forward to!
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Danna Bell
Throughout history, humans have sought out substances to color, coat, and cover dwellings, objects, and bodies. Modern inorganic pigments and dyes joined natural and organic substances used by the ancients. The properties of one substance, lead white, once made it the pigment of choice in white paint. However, the toxicity of lead contributed to a public health crisis.
Posted in: Contemporary United States (1945-present), Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Earlier this month, we announced the Library's first-ever online conference for teachers, and today we'd like to say a bit more about the keynote speaker, Carol Highsmith.
Posted in: News and Events