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- Accessing the American Memory collection: Multimedia formats and offline-use tips
- In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 4
- The American Memory collection contains a wide variety of formats including motion pictures, sound recordings, sheet music, maps, and photos. First, learn how to find them, then explore options for use in your classroom.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Collection Connections
- In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 7
- In this installment of the American Memory Guide, learn to find teaching resources associated with the Library of Congress's primary source collections.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- From documents to digitization
- To design a research project using primary sources from the Web, you'll need to know what's out there and how to find it. This article explains what's available, why, and where.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Introduction
- Twenty years after the Lost Colony disappeared, in 1607, the English established another colony 150 miles up the coast at Jamestown. This Virginia colony, too, faced unexpected difficulties -- food shortages, disease, native peoples who were less than thrilled...
- The Learning Page: Activities and features
- In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 6
- In this installment of the American Memory Guide, learn to easily locate activities and features specially designed for students and your classroom.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- The Learning Page: Getting started with primary sources
- In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 5
- Introduces a primary sources guide made available through the Library of Congress's The Learning Page. You'll also get an introduction to some of the LOC's lessons that will help your students use primary source materials.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- The not-so-famous person report
- In Rethinking Reports, page 3.2
- Instead of teaching the history of the famous, use research in primary sources to teach students that the past and present were made by people like them.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- A picture is worth a thousand words
- An example of how a single image can provoke discussions at all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.
- By Bobby Hobgood and David Walbert.
