Library of Congress Searching Guide for Science and Math
#1 Teachers
The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching. Take a look at lesson plans, primary source sets, and interactive features and activities.
A few examples:
Science and Imagination: Full Steam(punk) Ahead with Primary Sources February 6, 2014 by Anne Savage
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Understanding the Cosmos: Changing Models of the Solar System and the Universe
Analysis Tool and Guides
Read The TPS Journal
Archive…Science
Summer Teacher Institutes
#2 Science Technology and Business
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Inventors & Innovations, Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers, Subject Index, Recipes, Selenium, Notes, January 2, 1879
#3 Reading Room includesResearch and Information
Under Research Centers choose, Science and Technology, Webcast Finding Hot Towers in Hurricanes
#4 Collection Highlights
Historic Newspapers, Digital Newspaper Program, Topics in Chronicling America, Subject Category, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Patent Medicines
#5 Library by the Numbers
Statistics for FY 2013 Announced
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# 6 Kids & Families
Everyday Mysteries
#7 More Webcasts
Typed in Sea Monsters in the search under Webcasts
TITLE: Sea Monsters on Medieval & Renaissance Maps
#8 World Digital Library- Global Partnerships
Europe, Topic, More, Science, DNA
#9 All Format Search
Mathematics, Photo, Print & Drawing (Gallery View)
Science, Photo Print & Drawing (Gallery view)
#10 Connect with the Library Your choice
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Mathematics
Occupations related to mathematics (old posters)
School Children in Mathematics Class
Mathematics Tools of the past
Illustrations
Math Muse
Calculus
Math Cartoon
Mathematics with Photographs from Real Life or Real Life Examples
TPS Barat Link
Middle Tennessee TPS
"Past and Present: Using Baseball Statistics to Teach Math"
- 4th Grade Math
- Lesson Activity
- Student Worksheet
- Use statistics from historic baseball cards to calculate math problems
"Learning Decimals and Fractions with a 19th-century Currency Table"
- 4th & 5th grade Math, 4th grade Social Studies
- Lesson activity with links and curriculum standards
- Learn what Tennessee money was worth compared to that of other states and countries in the early 19th century
"Finding the Area and Volume of Buildings Using Architectural Drawings"
- 5th grade Math
- Lesson Plan
- Engineering, architecture, and local history
- Field trip possibilities!
Lesson Plans from the Library of Congress Web Site:
Huexotzinco Codex(using an Aztec manuscript to learn math & history)
- 6th (possibly also 7th & 8th) grade Math, 8th grade Social Studies, high school World History
- 3 activities available
TPS-Barat
Math Battle Fields
More Lesson Ideas
The Design of the U.S. Space Shuttle / The three major components of a U.S. Space Shuttle are elaborated on as a means of offering children in the fourth grade lessons that incorporate the use of technology while fostering their learning in the areas of language arts, mathematics, fine arts, and science.Math in the Real World / Using primary sources as environments for problem solving, environmental geometry, data collection and analysis, and Math throughout our history,
President Lincoln the Road to Math This Century! / Students will learn estimation math skill using historical figures and present day structures.
Conservation
Women in Science
The History and Science of Flight
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Dr. Lucianne Brown, Governors State University,
Science and Math Searching Suggestions to Begin