Learn with Primary Sources from the Library of Congress

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Learn with Primary Sources from the Library of
Congress
Group of young women reading in library of normal
school, Washington, D.C. 1899
Group of Jewish children with a teacher, 1905-1915
School children with teacher, Aginskoe, Russia,
2000
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Here are some examples of how teachers at Glen
Forest Elementary School have used Library of
Congress primary sources to deepen student
understanding..
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Can you guess who may have used this image?
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5th Grade math students used it to

• See real life applications of mathematical
  concepts.

Credit Unknown (1942). Women aircraft workers
finishing transparent bomber noses at the Douglas
Aircraft Co. plant in Long Beach, Calif.. Library
of Congress Prints Photographs
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Can you guess who may have used this image?
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4th and 5th Grade social studies students used it
to

• Understand that important discoveries about
  electricity led to modern inventions and uses.

Credit Lee, Russell (1942). Anaconda smelter,
Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Electromagnet removes metallic particles from
ore. Library of Congress Prints Photographs
Online Catalog.
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Can you guess who used this image?
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3rd Grade social studies students used it to

• Identify what Martin Luther King, Jr. looked like.

Credits  Unknown (1964). Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., head-and-shoulders portrait, facing
left. Library of Congress Prints
Photographs Online Catalog.
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Can you guess who used this image?
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First grade science students used it to

• Understand the difference between things that
  produce light and things that do not.

Credit Horydczak, Theodor, ca 1890 1971,
photographer, ca. 1920-ca. 1950. . Potomac
Electric Power Co. Benning plant. Sun rays in
Benning plant. Library of Congress Prints
Photographs
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Can you guess who used this image?
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PreK students used it to

• Understand how nursery rhymes have changed.

Credit Gregg, A. (1936-1940). Little Miss
Muffet ... reading a picture book ... /
Gregg.. Library of Congress American Memory, By
the People, For the People Posters from the WPA,
1936-1943
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Can you guess who used this image?
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4th Grade students used it to

• Understand that the way individuals react to
  situations depends on the background of the
  conflict.

Credit Unknown. (1861). Bombardment of Fort
Sumter by the batteries of the Confederate
states. Library of Congress Prints Photographs
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Can you guess who used this image?
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4th grade social studies students used it to

• Understand what is involved in creating an
  effective government.

Credit Hintermeister, H (1897). The foundation
of American government / Hy. Hintermeister.. Libra
ry of Congress Prints Photographs
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Can you guess who used this image?
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3rd grade social studies students used it to

• Understand how life has changed for women.

Credit Gustin, E.W. (c1909). Election
Day!. Library of Congress Prints Photographs
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Can you guess who used this image?
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4th grade social studies students used it to

• Understand how primary sources help tell the
  story of life during different periods of
  history.

Credit Unknown. Brandy Station, Va. Dinner
party outside tent, Army of the Potomac
headquarters. Library of Congress American
Memory, Selected Civil War Photographs
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Can you guess who used these images?
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5th grade counseling students used them to

• Understand how Rosa Parks made a positive
  influence in the value of human rights.

Credit United Press Association. (1956). Rosa
Parks, three-quarter length portrait, seated
toward front of bus, facing right, Montgomery,
Alabama. Library of Congress Prints
Photographs Associated Press (1956). Woman
fingerprinted. Mrs. Rosa Parks, Negro seamstress,
whose refusal to move to the back of a bus
touched off the bus boycott in Montgomery,
Ala.. Library of Congress Prints
Photographs Unknown (1964). She set a
precedent. Library of Congress American Memory
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Can you guess who used this image?
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4th grade social studies students used it to

• Understand the difference between factory work
  and plantation work.

Credit Carroll, Thomas (1994). The building
which houses Garden State Cutting Company. Their
space extends north from the corner visible here
(north is toward the left of the frame, following
the axis of the building toward 20th Avenue,
which is not visible here). Library of Congress
Prints Photographs Online Catalog, Working in
Paterson Occupational Heritage in an Urban
Setting.
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Can you guess who used this image?
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2nd grade science students used it to

• Understand that people develop machines to
  accomplish tasks more efficiently and
  effectively.

Credit F.H. Lummus' Sons Co. (1896). Lummus
Cotton Gins. Library of Congress American
Memory, Emergence of Advertising in America,
1850-1920 Selections from the Collections of
Duke University
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Can you guess who used this image?
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4th grade social studies students used it to

• Understand that the loss of a good leader makes
  people sad.

Credit Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer
c.1909 . Photograph of Abraham Lincoln lying on
his deathbed surrounded by various men.
. Library of Congress American
Memory, Photographs from the Chicago Daily News,
1902-1933
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Can you guess who used these images?
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5th grade language arts students used them to

• Write story leads as a means of expressing
  themselves.

Credit Once upon a time / Whitley.. Library of
Congress American Memory, By the People, For the
People Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 Phillis
Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of
Boston. Library of Congress McKenzie, A.
(1941). Jack and the beanstalk. Library of
Congress Prints Photographs, Posters WPA
Poster Collection
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Can you guess who used this image?
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2nd grade social studies students used it to

• Understand that each continent is unique.

Credit Unknown (c1911). The world's mightiest
cataract - Victoria Falls, 360 feet high, in
Zambesi River, Rhodesia. Library of
Congress Prints Photographs, Sterograph Cards
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So, what does this image have to do with Glen
Forest Elementary School?
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This is a pencil drawing of General McClellan
reviewing his troops near Baileys Cross Roads
from November 1861. General McClellan was the
General and Chief of the Union Army from 1861
1862.
Credit Waud, A. (1861). McClellan reviewing
his troops near Baileys Cross Roads. Library of
Congress American Memory.
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Students in many different classrooms love to
examine primary sources as puzzles and pieces of
puzzles.
How could primary sources be used with your
students?
Hines, L. (1917) Teacher and student. Library of
Congress American Memory
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Are you interested in learning more? Maybe you
want to participate in the Learn with Primary
Sources Workshop Series?
Please visit www.aamnva.org or contact Diane
Bounds, [phone] dbounds_at_aamnva.org