An article published on the National Council for the Social Studies website
provided me with insight to historical resources available at the click of a button. The Library of Congress and the Social Science Education Consortium have digitized collections of photographs, playbills, musical compositions and a wide assortment of other items that place primary sources at a student's fingertips.
In addition to providing these resources, the Library of Congress also has model lessons for teachers to show them how they can incorporate these tools and resources into their lesson plans.
One of the things I noticed in the virtual school this week is that the front course page can be changed to match the course so that when students log in they can be engaged in materials from the first screen. My host said that images and audio could be added to this as well so this would be a good place to incorporate music from a specific location or time period to provide another glimpse into the historical perspective. Links to primary resources throughout the course also help students be able to have a visual connection to the past.
The Library of Congress - American Memory Collection:
The http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
http://members.ncss.org/se/6203/620303.html
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I found myself looking at panoramic photographs of hurricane destruction, shipwrecks and Ivy League football games from the early 1900's and before that. They even had a couple pictures of Alligator Farms on South Beach. An interesting idea to think about. :) I know I haven't even touched the tip of the iceberg - they have old pictures of those, too, by the way. I am excited to go back through the Library of Congress website. Thank you for sharing.
I thought it was super interesting! I went through playbills and old frontier photos!
What an incredible website-I just sent it to our American History teachers. I like how they have divided the American Memories into categories that you can browse, such as maps, sports, and environment & conservation.
There is a Digital Library Collection at UF that contains over one million scanned documents/books. This library has everything from ancient maps to a collection of Alice in Wonderland items. I bet that there are other universities that have similar collections.
Here is the link to UF's Digital Library Collection:
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/
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