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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
