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Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
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Posted in: News and Events, Teaching Strategies, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Use images from the Free to Use and Reuse sets to help engage students with primary sources.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies, Young Learners
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Explore strategies to address difficult topics by applying information literacy approaches to historical primary sources.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Teachers are encouraged to remind students that they are eyewitnesses to history and to encourage them to create primary sources that capture their experiences,
Posted in: Contemporary United States (1945-present), Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Use graphs to start a mathematical journey with primary sources.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
See how the item record for a collection item can serve as a valuable research tool. Learn how using specific links from the record may lead teachers and students down some interesting and unexpected research rabbit holes.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Today's post highlights strategies and tools for analyzing primary sources.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Since the Teaching with the Library of Congress blog launched in 2011, we’ve published more than 900 posts covering a wide range of topics and suggesting various strategies for deepening student engagement and learning. This is the first of a series of posts revisiting some of our favorite strategies; we invite you to read along …
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
This process of observing, of reflecting on observations along with prior knowledge, and of generating questions about a primary source is valuable in itself. It also can serve as a springboard into further research.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Teaching Strategies