Informational Text: The Power of Personal Narrative
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Explore ways to teach and learn with personal narratives from the informational text primary source set.
Posted in: Primary Source Highlights, Teaching Strategies
Category: Teaching Strategies
Application Deadline Reminder: Summer 2023 Professional Development at the Library of Congress
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Join us for our 2023 on-site professional development activities.
Posted in: News and Events, Teaching Strategies, Teaching Tools
The Question Game: Creating Questions about Primary Sources
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
Information Literacy and Historical Primary Sources: Addressing Difficult Topics
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Explore strategies to address difficult topics by applying information literacy approaches to historical primary sources.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Encouraging Student-Generated Primary Sources During Historic Events
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
Teaching Mathematics Using Primary Sources: Data Mining, 1880s Style, Part 1
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Use graphs to start a mathematical journey with primary sources.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math, Teaching Strategies
Using Item Records to Explore Interesting Research Rabbit Holes
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
Core Strategies for Working with Primary Sources: Primary Source Analysis
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Today's post highlights strategies and tools for analyzing primary sources.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Core Strategies for Working with Primary Sources: The Basics
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