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Map showing distribution points A map showing the distribution points of elixir sulfanilamide poison and deaths resulting from it. The chart was prepared by the Food and Drug Administration

Concepts Across the Sciences: Patterns

December 6, 2022

Use a primary source to help students learn about the importance of studying patterns when trying to find cause of or solution to a problem.

Posted in: Science Technology and Math

One woman watches as another examines with a magnifying glass an ornate, decorative image on a printed page

“Perfect” Primary Sources Combinations

October 25, 2022

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

Fifteen Years on the Erie Canal: Teaching About an Almost-Forgotten Form of Transportation

October 6, 2022

Posted by: Danna Bell

Learn about the importance of canals in U.S. transportation history.

Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Science Technology and Math

In Conversation: LC Labs staff and Einstein Educator Fellow discuss library data, STEM education, and Primary Source Analysis

July 26, 2022

Posted by: Danna Bell

Eileen J. Manchester of LC Labs and Peter DeCraene, the 2020-2022 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the Library of Congress reflect on how messy, yet rewarding, it is to think of library collections as data in a classroom educational setting.

Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Science Technology and Math, Teaching Tools