Tools for Educators - Rockford College

Teaching with Primary Sources Program at Rockford College

Tools for Educators

Examining primary sources gives students a powerful sense of history and the complexity of the past. Helping students analyze primary sources can also guide them toward higher-order thinking and better critical thinking and analysis skills. These ready to use guides and tools from the Library of Congress will help teachers plan lessons for students to analyze primary sources.

Teacher's Guide & Analysis Tool » http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/guides.html

TPS Lesson Plans » http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/index.html

Classroom Starters » http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials

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Deb Dew
Program Director
ddew@rockford.edu

Michael Griffith
Assistant Director
mgriffith@rockford.edu

Nicole Morris
Program Assistant
nmorris@rockford.edu

*Content created and featured in partnership with the TPS program does not indicate an endorsement by the Library of Congress.

*Digital sources for images shown above: Jane Addams, profile (http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2004000613/), Drafts of Langston Hughes’s poem "Ballad of Booker T.,” 30 May-1 June 1941 (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home), Chicago (Victor 18946, B-26733/4 ), Children sitting and kneeling on the ground and painting at Hull House (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.ndlpcoop/ichicdn.n076595), Panoramic view of Rockford, Ill. (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pan.6a19166), Hull-House community workshop Register now: Free classes in painting, sculpture, pottery, weaving, poster art (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3f05215), Gardner portrait of Lincoln (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/lprbscsm.scsm0793).

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