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
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
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
Free Puzzles through Chronicling America: Maze Edition
Posted by: Danna Bell
Learn about the puzzles that can be found in the newspapers from Chronicling America.
Posted in: Culture and Folklife, Lesson Ideas, Primary Source Highlights, Young Learners
We Love Lucy…Roadside Architecture and Pachyderm Primary Source Analysis
Posted by: Danna Bell
Learn how roadside architecture including Lucy the Elephant can be used in primary source analysis.
Posted in: Culture and Folklife, Young Learners
Five Questions with Sasha Dowdy, Program Specialist, Young Readers Center
Posted by: Danna Bell
My job at the Young Readers Center allows me to be curious, ask a lot of questions, and find new ways to help children and teens connect with the Library of Congress and deepen their love of reading and learning.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Young Learners