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=Library of Congress Resources=

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Library of Congress - What is the Library of Congress?
 * Online Exhibiitions
 * [|Classroom Materials]
 * [|Professional Development]
 * MyLOC - interactive exhibitions, individual exhibition objects, lesson plans, online activities
 * Top LOC Blog Posts of 2011
 * Searching by Standard - Finding The Teacher Tools that you Need
 * Getting Started with Maps in the Classroom
 * Document Based Questions and Primary Sources
 * Copyright - Reaching out to Teachers and Students
 * Get Caught Reading in the Library of Congress
 * Teaching with Primary Resources Journal


 * Ideas for Teaching with Primary Resources**
 * Teaching with Primary Resources Quarterly Newsletter
 * Teaching with Primary Resources: Resources for Getting Started
 * Selecting Questions to Increase Student Engagement
 * Selecting Primary Resources - Thinking about Perspective Part III
 * Selecting Primary Resources Part IV
 * [|Practicing Close Observations: Spying on the Past]
 * !0 Tips for Using Primary Source Documents
 * [|August Ideas - tons of great stuff!]
 * [|Finding Primary Sources - American Memory Timeline]
 * What makes a Primary Source a Primary Source
 * [|Teaching with Primary Sources from PBS]
 * Looking Harder: Inspiring Close Observation
 * Finding Treasures in an Archive of Historical Newspapers: Chronicling America
 * A Clean Sweep for the New Year: Exploring a Cartoon from the Turn of the Twentieth Century
 * Teaching Difficult Subjects
 * Experiencing History from Behind the Scenes
 * Share, save or connect with the Library of Congress
 * [|Taking a closer look at Prints and Photographs]
 * [|Primary Source Analysis Tool - Reflection]
 * The World Digital Library - Cultural Treasures from Around the World
 * Dealing with Difficult Subjects in Primary Resources
 * Primary Source Analysis Tool Forming Good questions


 * Curriculum Specific**
 * Civil Rights History Project
 * Teaching about 9/11
 * Constitution Day
 * Hispanic Heritage Month
 * Wartime Clothing Drives
 * Teaching with Raw Materials of the Law: Primary Source and the Legislative Process
 * To Kill a Mockingbird
 * Veteran's History Project
 * Pearl Harbor: The Nation's Immediate Response
 * Primary Source Starter: The Wright Brothers’ Crumpled Glider
 * Farm Administration:Harvest Time
 * Resources for Native American Heritage Month
 * Theodore Roosevelt's Thanksgiving Truce: A Political Cartoon
 * Teaching Language Arts through Music-Historic Sheet Music and Song Sheets
 * [|Teaching with Architectural Drawings and Photographs]
 * Preparing for African History Month- Ways of Honoring Heroes
 * [|Historical Tour of Poetry and Song]
 * [|Representative and Primary Sources: How Congress Connects to the Classroom]
 * Advice Books - Insights into the 19th Century
 * Snow Stories
 * Titantic - In the news and in the memory