Looking Back: Top Content of 2020

Looking Back: Top Content of 2020

2020 certainly wasn’t easy but we hope that another year of highlighting great content from the Library of Congress and strategies and ideas for teaching with primary sources was helpful. In 2020 we began spotlighting TPS Consortium members and the resources and professional development opportunities that they provide. We also significantly expanded the Citizen U…

Looking Back: Top Content of 2019

Looking Back: Top Content of 2019

Citizen U was happy to be able to provide another year of great content highlighting Library of Congress primary sources and strategies and ideas for teaching with primary sources. In 2019 we added more Citizen U lessons, which integrate inquiry-based civics across core curriculum disciplines—English-language arts, math, science, and social studies—in elementary, middle school, and high school grades. Below we link to…

Looking Back: Top Content of 2018

Looking Back: Top Content of 2018

TPS-Barat was happy to be able to provide another year of great content highlighting Library of Congress primary sources and strategies and ideas for teaching with primary sources. In 2018 we added 31 Citizen U lessons to our offerings. Citizen U integrates inquiry-based civics across core curriculum disciplines—English-language arts, math, science, and social studies—in elementary, middle school, and high school grades. Below we link to…

Primary Source & Civic Learning

Primary Source & Civic Learning

The Barat Education Foundation (BEF), a long time member of the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program (TPS), began working with the Constitutional Rights Foundation (CRF) in 2016 to create multidisciplinary lessons that feature primary sources from the Library of Congress and infuse civic learning across the curriculum (stay tuned, coming soon). Primary source learning…

Looking Back: Top Primary Source Content of 2015

Looking Back: Top Primary Source Content of 2015

This year has been great! We reached more teachers and students than ever but please keep spreading the word about TPS-Barat and the Primary Source Nexus teaching resource blog. Take a look at the top five posts from 2015 from the Teaching & Learning and Primary Source Picks categories. Teaching & Learning Learning from the Source…