This blog post is by Jessica Fries-Gaither, a 2024-2025 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the Library of Congress. It is one in a series exploring how to analyze primary sources through the three-dimensions of the National Research Council’s “A Framework for K-12 Science Education” and the Next Generation Science Standards. How clean is your …
Lee Ann Potter describes her Prime Time talk describing connections over space, time, and fellowship among select items from the Library's collections.
While sailors have traversed the ocean for centuries, many details of the ocean floor were a mystery until Marie Tharp and her colleague, Bruce Heezen, created a map of the ocean floor. Deepen students' understanding of plate techtonics through an exploration of that map.
