Just One Day: Using a Newspaper Front Page as a Window to Inquiry and Research
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Assign students a newspaper page from a random date to encourage questioning and research.
Posted in: Lesson Ideas
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Highlights from the Library’s Blogs
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Explore some of the Library's other blogs and the resources available for classroom use.
Posted in: Primary Source Highlights
Highlights from the Library’s Blogs
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Learn about interesting blog posts from other sections of the Library.
Posted in: Primary Source Highlights
“Canned Childhood”: Encouraging Student Understanding of Progressive Era Issues and Reform Strategies Through a Poem Related to Child Labor
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Explore how a poem can spur classroom activities on child labor.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Poetry and Literature
Resources from the Library of Congress for Teaching English and Language Arts
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Staff from the Library of Congress will be in booth 504 at the annual convention of the National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) in Columbus, Ohio, November 17-19. We’d love to hear about your work and give you a personalized tour of the Library’s primary source collections, teaching materials, and professional development resources. But whether or …
Posted in: Poetry and Literature, Primary Source Highlights
Launching Student Learning About Women’s Suffrage with a Suffragist’s Poetry
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Explore how poetry was used to advocate for women's suffrage.
Posted in: Poetry and Literature, Women's History
Global Resources from the Library of Congress
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Teach world history and culture? Look at the resources the Library of Congress has to offer you and your students.
Posted in: World History
Understanding Huge Numbers: If All the Seas Were One Sea…
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Einstein Teacher Fellow Peter DeCraene explores how newspapers use imagery and analogies to help readers understand large numbers and make them more accessible.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math
Mathematics and Misinformation
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Einstein Teaching Fellow Peter DeCraene shows how newspaper articles can be used to encourage digital literacy and in this instance a bit of math.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math