Professional Development for Educators
courses | by subject | workshops
This section provides methods and resources for searching and using digitized primary source materials and helps educators just getting started or looking for more ideas.
Resources by Subject
General
- Interpretation Tools Needed
- Introducing Primary Sources
- Models for Using Primary Source Documents
- Respect, Tolerance, and Understanding: Or Prepare for the Politically Incorrect
- Teleconference: Digital Treasures for Teaching and Learning
- Using Digital Primary Source Materials with K-12 Students (pdf)
Maps
- Map Analysis Using the Library of Congress' American Memory Map Collections
- Understanding the Past: What Factors Lead to the Urbanization, growth, and/or decline of U.S. Cities
Photos and Prints
- Native Americans of Colorado: Using Colorado Resources to Understand the Lives of Native American Women and Children of the West
- Using Photos and Prints in Lessons
Documents and Texts
- Excerpt...But Beware!
- Fredrick Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and Abraham Lincoln: Differing Viewpoints about the Constitution, a Just War and What Freedom Means
- Teaching with Sound
- Use of War Propaganda: Getting Various Groups to Enlist
- Using Documents and Text with Students
Searching
Staff Development Lessons
Using Heritage Colorado
- Heritage Colorado Treasures
- Heritage Colorado Tutorials
- Searching the Heritage Colorado Database Library of Congress American Memory
American Memory from the Library of Congress
- American Memory from the Library of Congress
- American Memory Online Training
- Historian's Sources
- Lesson Framework
- Lesson Index
- Using Primary Sources in the Classroom
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