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Discover how the Library of Congress' vast resources — both print and digital — can help educators boost their lesson plans. 
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The Library of Congress is an amazing resource. It is the largest library in the world and has put much of their collection online. What is available? "Spoken history, photographs, and iconic cultural resources are available as teaching resources, and many of them are neatly organized into lesson plans, collections, and themes, perfect for bringing them into the classroom." Since searching for the resources may be "overwhelming" this post provides "a short guide to making the most of the Library of Congress, with tips and ideas for activities, plus links to guides, resources, and tools that you can put to work in your classroom."
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The Library of Congress (LOC) "has made its already fabulous teaching resources–designed to inspire analysis, critical thinking, and the value of working with primary sources–more findable for teachers by aligning them to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)." This post, by Joyce Valenza, provides a great in-depth look at how to Search by Standards and also suggests some of the other tools available at the LOC.
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The Library of Congress has amazing resources, and this infographic provides an overview of what is available!