The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching.
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Classroom Materials
Drake's West Indian Voyage 1588-1589
Lesson Plan
Women's Suffrage
Primary Source Sets
Songs for Our Times
Presentations and Activities
How Transportation Transformed America
Primary Source Sets
The Titanic: Shifting Responses to Its Sinking
Lesson Plans
Zoom into Maps
Presentations and Activities
Maps from the World Digital Library
Primary Source Sets
Child Labor in America
Lesson Plans
Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright
Presentations and Activities
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Using Primary Sources
Discover quick and easy ways to begin using primary sources in your classroom, with teachers' guides, information on citing sources and copyright, and the Library's primary source analysis tool.
TPS Partners
The Teaching with Primary Sources Program builds partnerships with educational organizations to support effective instruction using primary sources. TPS partners deliver Library of Congress professional development locally.
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The Teaching with Primary Sources Journal
The TPS Journal is an online publication created by the Library of Congress Educational Outreach Division in collaboration with the TPS Educational Consortium.
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Professional Development
The Library of Congress provides primary source-based, ready-to-use resources for teachers and facilitators:
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News & Events
January 16, 2012
New Lesson Plans with a Global Perspective
January 4, 2012
The Library of Congress Teacher Conference Schedule for Early 2012