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Posted by: Danna Bell
Do you need additional resources to celebrate the second half of Hispanic Heritage month? The Library of Congress has some wonderful materials for you and your students.
Posted in: Hispanic American History, Lesson Ideas
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
We'll have activities for all ages, all day, but even if you can't get to the Book Festival, you can experience some of the activities. Here are a couple of the ways that we connect books to primary sources:
Posted in: Lesson Ideas, News and Events
Posted by: Danna Bell
Sara Trettin, formerly Suiter, our 2010-2011 Teacher in Residence, was one of the first coordinators for the Teaching with the Library of Congress blog. She wrote and edited some of the first posts and provided a solid framework as we added more writers and continued to shape the blog and its message.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Lesson Ideas, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Danna Bell
Rebecca Newland, 2013-15 Teacher in Residence, is supporting the needs of faculty and students in a school library. She also continues to contribute to the Library of Congress Poetry Center's blog, From the Catbird Seat.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Lesson Ideas, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Danna Bell
Here are a few of Tom Bober's Multimedia Moments:
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Lesson Ideas, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Danna Bell
Welcome back to the classroom, and welcome back to Teaching with the Library of Congress! Are you looking for powerful ways to incorporate primary sources into your classroom activities? Here are a few blog posts that will supply some ideas you can use.
Posted in: Lesson Ideas, Teaching Strategies, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Explore the Jacob Riis exhibit and see how you can use it to help students learn about the lives of people at the start of the 20th century.
Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Lesson Ideas
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Imagine television and radio broadcasts from the last 70 years covering topics from economics to social issues, from science to politics. You’ll find that resource in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), a collaborative effort between the Library of Congress, WGBH Boston and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Posted in: Contemporary United States (1945-present), Lesson Ideas, News and Events
Posted by: Danna Bell
In the January/February 2016 "Sources and Strategies" article in Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, Cheryl Lederle and I focus on helping students understand cartographers’ purpose through comparing two 16th century maps: Americae sive quartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio by Diego Gutierrez and page 18 of Theatrum orbis terrarium by Abraham Ortelius.
Posted in: Exploration, Colonization and Settlement (1492-1763), Geography and Maps, Lesson Ideas