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Finding Resources: TPS Journal

May 6, 2015 by PSN Leave a Comment

Dig deep into a variety of teaching with primary sources topics. The TPS Journal, formerly titled the TPS Quarterly, is an online, peer-reviewed publication focused on pedagogical approaches to teaching with Library of Congress digitized primary sources in K-12 classrooms. Each issue provides sections related to the issue's thematic focus: a feature article, an elementary primary source activity, a secondary primary source activity, a teacher spotlight highlighting primary source learning in the … [Read more...]

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Learning from the Source: Print Advertising Across the Centuries

September 23, 2013 by PSN Leave a Comment

Overview Advertisements showcase products and the latest technology while reflecting life and society as we know it, or wish it to be. This project encourages students to use their natural curiosity about the similarities between the past, present, and future to analyze and compare and contrast historical, contemporary, and hypothetical print advertisements of the future.* To complete this project, students will . . . learn about advertising persuasion techniques. analyze a … [Read more...]

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Learning from the Source: Digital Stories of Our Heroes

May 23, 2013 by PSN Leave a Comment

Engage students with a real-world activity that has them learning about U.S. history while adding to the collective American memory. This project allows students to learn and use interview and digital presentation skills to discover, elicit, and relate the stories of local veterans and others who contributed during times of conflict. To complete this project, students will . . . visit the Library of Congress website and other websites to familiarize themselves with the time period or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching & Learning Tagged With: capturing an oral history, ccss, civics, digital stories, doing oral history, es, fieldwork, heroes, hs, interview, interview lesson, interview questions, learning from the source, may, ms, oral histories, oral history, project-based learning, rubrics, teaching learning, teaching with primary sources, TL, tps, veterans, Veterans History Project, video recording

Today in History: The U.S. Naval Academy & the Navy

October 10, 2011 by PSN Leave a Comment

Today in History–October 10–the Library of Congress features the United States Naval Academy, which began its first term on this day in 1845. Learn more about the naval academy and the U.S. navy in the Today in History section then click the links below to access more navy-related primary sources. Naval Academy primary source set Naval Academy historical newspaper coverage Selected naval images (Pictorial Americana) Navy images Navy films & video interviews Navy songs and … [Read more...]

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Funded by a grant from the Library of Congress, since 2004 TPS-Barat has provided free, engaging, inquiry-based learning materials that use Library primary sources to foster understanding and application of civics, literacy, history, math, science, and the arts.
The mission of the national Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program is to: build awareness of the Library’s educational initiatives; provide content that promotes the effective educational of the Library’s resources; and offer access to and promote sustained use of the Library’s educational resources.
Learn more about Teaching with Primary Sources by visiting www.loc.gov/programs/teachers/about-this-program/.

Finding Resources: TPS Journal

Learning from the Source: Print Advertising Across the Centuries

Learning from the Source: Digital Stories of Our Heroes

Today in History: The U.S. Naval Academy & the Navy

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