The Vietnam War: One Veteran’s Experience
Posted by: Danna Bell
What can one individual’s experience tell us about a larger historical event?
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Category: Teaching Strategies
Local History: Exploring What’s Just Outside Your Door
Posted by: Danna Bell
When teachers encourage students to learn about where they live and perhaps link their community to a larger event, they can see they are part of a larger story. Students can understand that they are a part of history and that they make history every day.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Making Interdisciplinary Connections with Maps
Posted by: Anne Savage
Use maps to develop fun, yet meaningful, activities across disciplines for students at any level.
Posted in: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877), Geography and Maps, Teaching Strategies, Young Learners
Primary Source Analysis Tool: Forming Meaningful Questions
Posted by: Anne Savage
Do your students love to ask questions? Or would they rather just have the answers? The Primary Source Analysis Tool can help you guide them, either way.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies, Teaching Tools
Taking a Closer Look at Prints and Photographs
Posted by: Danna Bell
As reference librarian Kristi Finefield notes, the title provided for a photograph does not always match the content of the photograph.
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Primary Source Analysis Tool: Using the “Reflect” Column to Develop Critical Thinking
Posted by: Anne Savage
What’s the difference between an observation and an inference? It’s a distinction that’s key to critical thinking.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies, Teaching Tools
Getting Started with Maps in the Classroom
Posted by: Anne Savage
If you were to ask your students, “What is a map?” what do you think they would say?
Posted in: Geography and Maps, Teaching Strategies, Teaching Tools
Document Based Questions and Primary Sources
Posted by: Anne Savage
Have you been looking for easy access to primary sources to help students think critically and write analytically?
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Teaching with the Library of Congress: Top Posts of 2011
Posted by: Danna Bell
We wanted to revisit staff favorites, posts that received the most comments and some that were highlighted by teachers who work with the Library.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies, Teaching Tools