Family, Stories, and Holiday Connections
Posted by: Danna Bell
All of us who work on education here at the Library wish you a wonderful holiday season.
Posted in: Holidays
Archive: 2018 (93 Posts)
Primary Sources for Musical Learning: Comparing Arrangements of Auld Lang Syne
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Prepare students to analyze the four versions highlighted here by asking them to recall personal experiences hearing Auld Lang Syne: Who performed, and where? How did the audience respond? What was the purpose of the performance?
Posted in: Fine and Performing Arts, Holidays
Using Historic Newspapers to Study Accounts of a Now-Abandoned Medical Procedure
Posted by: Danna Bell
Reading and analyzing primary sources can help students understand how people thought about the brain and treated mental illnesses in the early and mid-twentieth century.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math
From Mechanics to Makers: Making and Sharing
Posted by: Danna Bell
The maker movement seems to be a current topic, but it had some interesting ancestors during the 1700s and 1800s! While perusing the amazing digitized collections at the Library of Congress, I was fascinated to discover organizations in early America that reminded me of today's makers.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math, Teaching Strategies
Using the 5 Es to Explore an Epitome of the Universe
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
In the November/December issue of The Science Teacher, we suggested that your students might apply the 5 Es of science instruction to Wright's work to deepen their understanding of the universe.
Posted in: Exploration, Colonization and Settlement (1492-1763), Science Technology and Math
Using Library of Congress Posters to Inspire Creativity
Posted by: Danna Bell
This month, the Library's Free to Use and Reuse area features a Poster Parade. The selections, on a wide variety of topics, represent a collaboration with Poster House, a new museum opening in 2019.
Posted in: Fine and Performing Arts, News and Events
Pure Drugs and Primary Sources: An Opportunity for Close Reading and Analysis
Posted by: Danna Bell
How do we know our medicine is safe? Students can explore primary sources to see how medicines were marketed in the nineteenth century and how Congress responded.
Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Government and Law, Science Technology and Math
Join Library of Congress staff at NCSS in Chicago!
Posted by: Danna Bell
We're excited to return to Chicago for the National Council for the Social Studies conference, November 30 - December 1, 2018. We hope to meet you at one of our events during the conference.
Posted in: News and Events
Encouraging Student Examination of Persuasive Strategies Used in an Anti-Lynching Report
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
In the November-December 2018 issue of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, our “Sources and Strategies” article focuses on one document used in the battle against mob violence against African Americans: a 1921 report from the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary in support of a bill to make lynching a federal crime.
Posted in: Government and Law, Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Lesson Ideas, News and Events