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 …
This is the first in a series of posts by Ralph Pantozzi, a 2024-2025 Albert Einstein Distinguished Teaching Fellow at the Library of Congress. Read about strategies for using photographs to prompt questions that can be explored with data.
While sailors have traversed the ocean for centuries, many details of the ocean floor were a mystery until Marie Tharp and her colleague, Bruce Heezen, created a map of the ocean floor. Deepen students' understanding of plate techtonics through an exploration of that map.