{"id":2056,"date":"2024-09-06T19:26:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T19:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agileteacherlab.org\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2024-11-11T04:43:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T04:43:51","slug":"how-to-choose-primary-sources-for-learning-routines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agileteacherlab.org\/index.php\/2024\/09\/06\/how-to-choose-primary-sources-for-learning-routines\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Choose Primary Sources for Learning Routines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Across all subject areas and age levels, teachers spend a great deal of time searching for images, historical, and primary sources to inspire student questions and provide artifacts to help students understand the past from different perspectives. Choosing media sources is crucial to support effective and efficient learning. Students see themselves and their histories and anticipated futures in the images that teachers bring into lessons. This guide supports teachers in exploring how to use selected images, especially primary sources, with durable learning routines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Great places to find primary sources from the Library of Congress are:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Library of Congress creates collections of primary sources along with resources for teaching their stories. You can explore their Classroom Materials collections at https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/classroom-materials\/<\/a>, and you can directly load classroom materials photographs from this gallery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TPS Teachers Network<\/a> is a website where teachers can create and share curated collections of Library of Congress primary source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Searching loc.gov or other collections from museums and libraries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Types of Collections<\/strong>: Unique Source, Collection United by Big Idea or Theme, or a Matrix of Collections<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purposes for Using Primary Sources in Learning Routines<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n