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Posted by: Danna Bell
It seems like each school year flies by faster than the last, and that is exactly how I feel about my time here at the Library of Congress as the Audio Visual Teacher in Residence.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Danna Bell
In the May/June 2016 issue of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, our “Sources and Strategies” article featured The Rocket Book, a children’s book published in 1912. The details contained in both the story’s prose and its illustrations—from the names and occupations of the tenants to the pastimes and inventions depicted—provide a unique glimpse of urban life in America in the early years of the twentieth century.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Danna Bell
Throughout human history, communities have contended with the consequences and costs of severe weather. Recent discourse about climate, sea levels, and weather events include both national and local-level conversations about building community resilience in response to severe weather. Primary sources can initiate deep learning about severe weather and community preparedness and responses.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Danna Bell
Individually and collectively humans exert both positive and negative influences on Earth's systems. Teachers and students studying the interactions among Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere and related human activity can explore images, manuscripts, and recorded oral history interviews from the Coal River community in West Virginia.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Danna Bell
Throughout history, music has been used for celebrations and for memorial events; to sway opinion or highlight a specific point of view; or to encourage people to vote for a particular political candidate.
Posted in: Fine and Performing Arts, Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), News and Events
Posted by: Danna Bell
Primary sources often reward close observation with additional information that can lead to deep thinking, questioning, and new understandings.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Danna Bell
The new Weather Forecasting Primary Source Set from the Library of Congress includes depictions of a number of early weather tools. Analyzing these historical primary sources depicting technological innovations can offer students insights into the nature of science and science practices, as well as core scientific concepts.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
From a centuries-old barometer to a twenty-first century climate map, from diagrams of optical phenomena drawn by Isaac Newton to forest-health charts created by West Virginia volunteers, two new primary source sets from the Library of Congress provide rich opportunities to explore the scope and nature of scientific endeavor.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Danna Bell
The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Association, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service and US Holocaust Memorial Museum have joined together to create a portal providing links to resources from all of these heritage institutions.
Posted in: News and Events