Welcome to Teaching with Primary Sources
The purpose of Teaching with Primary Sources is to engage students in learning about Congress, representative democracy, and citizen participation. We provide information and resources to help you access and use the digital primary source materials of the Library of Congress as well as the Center on Congress Web site.
Take a Tour
Bring civics and history alive by teaching with primary sources. Use these interactive activities to enrich your curriculum and deepen your students’ understanding of civics and history.
- Preview student activities
- Review the steps to complete each activity
- Examine lesson plans
Start Using “Teaching With Primary Sources”
My Workspace is a simple and powerful way to choose, assign, and grade the student activities available on the Teaching with Primary Sources site. With a free registration you will get a password-protected space on our server — accessible any time of day from any computer with Internet access.
My Workspace enables teachers to:
- Provide students with their own workspaces to do and save their work.
- Create lists of activities to assign to students or groups.
- View, grade, and mark up your students’ work online.
- View and customize lessons that are aligned with state standards.
Enter your username and password to access interactive activities, lesson plans, workspaces, guides for searching and using Library of Congress digital collections, and more!
Not a member yet? Register today to start using this free teaching tool.
