Workshop One: Explore the Library of Congress
Understanding Goal 
How do primary sources challenge and inspire our memory, reason, and imagination?
Knowledge
- Library of Congress resources can be used to widen and deepen students’ understanding of school/state curriculum.
- Specific divisions on the Library of Congress Web site relate to the school/state curriculum.
Skills
- Make connections between primary sources and prior knowledge through concrete to abstract thinking.
- Recognize differentiated instruction in terms of content, process, and product.
- Use an understanding goal in a Lesson Plan.
- Relate major areas on the Library of Congress Web site to purposes for using a library.
Assessment:
Investigative Question 
How do primary sources inspire new discoveries that challenge, confirm, and sometimes change our thinking?
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- Model Activities
Performance task: Analyze model activity for:
- Best Instructional Practices in Workshop One
- Learning process using primary sources
- Knowledge gained about the Library of Congress
- PrimarySourceLearning.org resources: Lesson Plan Collection
- Search Strategy
Performance task
- Investigate the Library of Congress Web site and identify useful resources.
- Patron Actions
What is your purpose for visiting the Library of Congress today?
- Visitor - explore the site with the Quick Reference Guide.
- Researcher - Practice using Library of Congress search boxes
- Docent - Use Search Guide
Performance task
- Gallery Walk: display an item from the Library of Congress that evokes a personal connection, relates to the curriculum or inspires questions
- Exit Card
Renovate a segment of one of the lessons that you currently teach using Library of Congress primary sources in this workshop series.
- Consider your best lessons that could be even better, lessons that you would like to spend some time improving, or lessons that need resources to generate student curiosity.
- Brainstorm a list of possible lesson topics to work on:
- Circle two possible lesson topics as your potential focus for this Workshop Series.
- Follow-up Activities
- Visit the Library of Congress Web site and practice using the skills learned in today’s workshop.
- Create and implement primary source-based Lesson Plans.
- Create a document with an investigative question, image, exact Library of Congress title, and understanding goal.