Model Activities

Primary Source-based Model Activities demonstrate the use of Best Instructional Practices and breadth of available Library of Congress Resources. Primary Source Learning professional development programs begin with a Model Activity.

Introduction

• Sort-It-Out

Workshop One

• Images Draw You In

Workshop Two

• When is a Source a Primary Source?
• Primary Source Investigations

Workshop Three

• What's In Your Pocket?
• Life in a Box

Workshop Four

• Zoom-In Inquiry
• Using Primary Digital Sources
  • Discussion of the Computer-Based Lesson Plans (PDF File)

Workshop Five

• Where are you as a Library of Congress Patron?
• How Primary Sources Challenge Student Understanding

Instructional Departments

• Arts
  • Entry Points
  • Illustrate a Song
  • Moving Art Gallery
• Foreign Language
  • Evidence of Culture
• Language Arts
  • Langston Hughes
  • Women's Writing
• Math
  • Eye Spy
• Social Studies
  • Gettysburg Address
  • Local Time Capsule
  • Presidents Activity
  • World War I and II analysis
• Visual Arts
  • Visual Literacy