Educ 370/570: Teaching the Social Sciences 2024: Resources to help you

Includes analysis worksheets, lesson plans based on National History Standards and National Standards for Civics and Government, and the Archive's tool for identifying documents for teaching.

The LoC has pulled together sets of primary sources on various topics.

Many ideas, grouped into various subject categories, about ideas for teaching with LoC primary resources.

Primary sources grouped by period of U.S. history.

Gateway page to the variety of teacher support from the LoC.

Now published biannually. Publication is dedicated to support the use of Library of Congress digitized primary sources to teach a number of topics (2008-2016 issues were focused on K-12 curriculum). Lesson plan ideas are grouped by subject area.

The Teaching with Primary Sources Program works with colleges and other educational organizations to deliver professional development programs that help teachers use the Library of Congress's rich reservoir of digitized primary source materials to design challenging, high-quality instruction.

Document Bank of Virginia (DBVa) is the Library of Virginia’s initiative to get documents into classrooms. Using primary sources, teachers can make history relevant to students while helping them learn and understand state standards. DBVa will teach students to be critical thinkers as they analyze the original documents and draw their own conclusions about Virginia’s past.

The Library of Virginia is dedicated to providing relevant and useful educational material on Virginia’s history, culture, and people to the commonwealth’s educators, students, and lifelong learners of any age.

Browse artifacts from the Giza archive that relate to popular themes for the classroom — such as Daily Life in Ancient Egypt and What are the Pyramids? — to use in your lesson plans.