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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: Danna Bell
Explore how to use the Library of Congress Primary Source Sets in remote learning environments.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Danna Bell
Join us for a webinar that will introduce educators to the Question Formulation Technique.
Posted in: News and Events, 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: Danna Bell
Learn how a Spanish teacher incorporated the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape (AHLOT) into her class curriculum after realizing that this collection of audio recordings of literary figures from the Hispanic world would be a useful tool for enhancing her students’ language skills and their knowledge about Hispanic literature and culture.
Posted in: Hispanic American History, Poetry and Literature, 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: Danna Bell
Analyzing primary sources, just like sharing my personal pictures, has provided students with first hand information from the past. This allows students to build connections between the concept being learned and the primary source and leads to powerful learning.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies, World History