KidCitizen – Citizen U Primary Source Nexus

TPS Spotlight: KidCitizen

September 13, 2020August 4, 2021

KidCitizen is part of the Congress, Civic Participation, and Primary Sources Project, which is supported by a grant from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program. KidCitizen is a digital interactive for K-5 learners that promotes historical inquiry, civic engagement and literacy through the investigation of primary sources from the Library of Congress and…

Teaching & Learning

Primary Source Learning: Community Helpers Then & Now Primary Source Set

July 29, 2020July 11, 2021

Click the images to access them, then print or add to a digital folder or platform. Have students match the primary source images of community helpers from long ago and now. Then have students draw a picture of themselves as community helpers and/or a community helper in their neighborhood and share stories about those people….