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Posted by: Colleen Smith
The second installment in a three-part series on equations and primary sources, this post explores how primary sources can deepen students’ understanding of both the origin and practical application of the equation y = mx + b.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Colleen Smith
The first in a series of posts that will explore roots of math and routes to learning it. Examining a primary source can spark questions about quantity, distance, measurement, motion, and repetition: all these are roots of mathematics.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Colleen Smith
In the March/April 2025 issue of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, our “Sources and Strategies” article highlighted a political cartoon that appeared in the September 22, 1909, issue of Puck Magazine. The image, “Lights and Shadows”, contains a wealth of opportunities for students to explore connections between the environment, politics, economics, and public health.
Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Science Technology and Math, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Michael Apfeldorf
This blog post illustrates how STEM teachers can use free primary sources related to the famous female inventor, Beulah Henry, to engage students in three-dimensional learning.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math, Teaching Strategies, Women's History
Posted by: Michael Apfeldorf
A key aspect of information literacy is evaluating the relationship between claims and evidence: Do claims follow clearly and logically from evidence? Can the evidence also support alternate claims? Guide students to apply information literacy skills to a 1912 article “Mars Peopled by One Giant Thinking Vegetable.”
Posted in: Literacy, Science Technology and Math, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Michael Apfeldorf
This blog post lets science teachers know how they can use free Library of Congress resources in their teaching.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Colleen Smith
Blog posts, classroom materials, and resources from the Library offer ideas that can support teaching and learning about Women's History Month in different subjects (Science/STEM, Social Studies, English Language Arts) and across grade levels.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math, Women's History
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
This blog post is by Jessica Fries-Gaither, a 2024-2025 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the Library of Congress. It is one in a series exploring how to analyze primary sources through the three-dimensions of the National Research Council’s “A Framework for K-12 Science Education” and the Next Generation Science Standards. How clean is your …
Posted in: Science Technology and Math, Women's History
Posted by: Colleen Smith
Read about strategies for using maps to prompt student questions that can be explored with data.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Science Technology and Math