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Posted by: Danna Bell
Learn how to use transcriptions from By the People to encourage social emotional learning in your students.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Danna Bell
How can students determine what is real and what is not? This post provides some helpful suggestions.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Danna Bell
Help students learn about the nitrogen cycle by studying popcorn.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Danna Bell
Explore how primary sources can help students learn about earthquakes.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Danna Bell
Celebrating the joys of helping students see, think and wonder.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Danna Bell
Explore how a map helps jumpstart a discussion of migratory patterns of African Americans during the early and middle sections of the 20th century.
Posted in: African American History, Geography and Maps, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Danna Bell
Consider how educators use sources to introduce a topic or theme and how primary sources can encourage critical thinking across a variety of subjects.
Posted in: Geography and Maps, Poetry and Literature, Teaching Strategies
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
Posted by: Danna Bell
Learn about the claim, evidence, and reasoning (CER) framework used by STEM teachers and see how it can be used in primary source analysis.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math, Teaching Strategies