Choose an image that relates to your personal experience, reflects a topic you teach or an interested in, or sparks curiosity. Use one of the four methods below to load images into the selection gallery. Then, select an image for students to crop.
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/, and you can directly load classroom materials photographs from this gallery. Choose a Library of Congress Primary Source Collection from the dropdown menu to load the images in that collection. Click on a picture to select it for your crop-it game.
TPS Teachers Network is a website where teachers can create and share curated collections of Library of Congress primary sources. Paste a TPS Teachers Network collection link in the field below and click the button to load the pictures in that collection. The link should be in the format https://tpsteachersnetwork.org/album/....
Load from TPS Album
Paste any Library of Congress Control Number here and click "Load from LOCCN". You can find a resource's LOCCN on its LOC resource page.
Load from LOC Item Page
Paste the URL to an image here and click "Load Custom Picture".
Load Custom Picture
Choose some prompts from the options below. You can also delete, modify, reorder and write your own prompts by clicking on them. Some questions have already been chosen.
When you have chosen your picture and questions, press the "generate" button for the link to share with your class. This link will lead students to a game of crop-it where they can crop and add notes to answer each of your questions about this picture.
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