Women’s History Teaching Ideas for the K-5 Teacher
Posted by: Danna Bell
Explore ways to help younger students learn more about women in United States history.
Posted in: Women's History, Young Learners
Category: Young Learners
“Heaps of Fun”: Games, Rhymes, and Riddles in the Library’s Collections
Posted by: Danna Bell
What are some of the games children play and how does the Library document them?
Posted in: Culture and Folklife, Young Learners
Reading is for Everyone
Posted by: Danna Bell
Explore some of the images that depict reading in this blog post from Jan Grenci of the Prints and Photographs Division.
Posted in: Poetry and Literature, Primary Source Highlights, Teaching Tools, Young Learners
Transportation through U.S. History: A New Primary Source Set
Posted by: Danna Bell
Michael Apfeldorf talks about our Transportation Primary Source set.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math, Young Learners
Thomas Edison’s Favorite Invention: The Phonograph
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
This post, written by Lesley Anderson, 2021-2022 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow, will provide ideas on how to help students learn about Thomas Edison and the phonograph.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math, Young Learners
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
Virtual Student Workshop: Imagination, Everyone’s Superpower
Posted by: Danna Bell
Learn how a teacher used LC resources to help her students discover their "superpowers" of imagination, analysis and critical thinking.
Posted in: Lesson Ideas, Young Learners
Teacher Resources for Primary Educators: Reflections of an Intern and Teacher
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Meet Delaney Ford, an intern in the Professional Learning and Outreach Initiatives Office at the Library of Congress and her work to make our teacher resources more accessible to teachers with younger students.
Posted in: Young Learners
Compare and Contrast Student School Experiences with Library of Congress Primary Sources
Posted by: Danna Bell
Using photographs from the Library's collections, teachers can encourage students to recognize similarities and differences between their lived experiences and those of children in the past.
Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Young Learners