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Posted by: Anne Savage
What better way for young students to learn about three early presidents than to explore documents from the time period - including letters, school work, diagrams and drawings created by the men themselves?
Posted in: Government and Law, Teaching Strategies, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Anne Savage
Broaden student perspectives on Thanksgiving – a holiday that is “peculiar to the nation” – with our recently-updated Thanksgiving Primary Source Set.
Posted in: Holidays, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Anne Savage
Teaching difficult topics using carefully selected primary sources can help students connect the past to the present. Looking at events through the lens of history can often make approaching a difficult topic easier.
Posted in: African American History, Contemporary United States (1945-present), Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Anne Savage
Five 2015 Summer Teacher Institute participants reflect on what happened when they brought primary sources and analysis strategies into their own classrooms.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Anne Savage
Find learning activities that will help you incorporate Library of Congress primary sources in your K-2 classroom or library.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies, Young Learners
Posted by: Anne Savage
The @TeachingLC Twitter feed for K-12 educators shares rich primary sources and teaching materials every school day. Learn about the #LCReveal, where a primary source is deconstructed and tweeted one section a day for a weeklong, classroom-ready activity.
Posted in: News and Events, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Anne Savage
Using the Library of Congress Found Poetry Primary Source Set, students hone their reading comprehension skills while creating poetry based upon text and images on topics as diverse as Helen Keller, Walt Whitman, women’s suffrage, and the Harlem Renaissance.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Anne Savage
Congress.gov, the official congressional information system from the Library of Congress, is a new public beta site for accessing free, fact-based information on the legislation and members of the United States Congress.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Anne Savage
With winter arriving this month, my thoughts turned to a different kind of cleaning: snow removal. How were city streets cleared long ago, and what was life like before plows and snowblowers? I discovered some intriguing images that answer some of my questions and raise many new ones.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math, Teaching Strategies