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Posted by: Danna Bell
Lee Ann Potter summarizes a program featuring several of the Library's Teaching with Primary Sources partners and how they try to find the "perfect primary source combination" for their programs and how these sources can lead to transformative opportunities.
Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Science Technology and Math, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
How can exploring what happened on a unique date such as 2/22/1922 help build student research skills? Lee Ann Potter has some ideas.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Primary Source Highlights
Posted by: Danna Bell
Learn more about our literacy award winners and the techniques they use in a series of webinars.
Posted in: Literacy, News and Events
Posted by: Danna Bell
This post is by Lee Ann Potter, the director of the Professional Learning and Outreach Initiatives office at the Library of Congress. In the September 2022 issue of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, our “Sources and Strategies” article shared a spring 1787 exchange between George Washington and Henry Knox …
Posted in: Constitution, Revolution and the New Nation (1764-1815)
Posted by: Danna Bell
Have you used sheet music with your classes? It provides a different angle to study events in history.
Posted in: Fine and Performing Arts, National Expansion and Reform (1815-1860)