Educator Resources

Library of Congress: Teachers Page
The ideal starting point for educators.  Selecting the “Learning Page” icon provides the viewer with access to tutorials, interactive activities, Webcasts and more than 80 teacher-tested, standards-based lesson plans.  Lesson plans and activities are categorized by grade level and subject, and are available on a variety of topics ranging from the drafting of the Constitution to the Civil War to literature and poetry to the women’s movement and civil rights.  There is something here that every educator can use in his or her classroom.

US House of Representatives Educational Resources
A wide variety of educational resources provided by the U.S. House of Representatives.

Gateway to Educational Materials
The Gateway to Educational Materials is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.

America's Library
Introduces younger children to the great stories of our nation’s history through games, puzzles, and interactive activities.  Young learners have the opportunity to learn about our nation’s leaders and cultural heritage in a fun and engaging way. 

Library of Congress: Educational Outreach Team
The Library also has an educational outreach team that works directly with teachers to help them find ways to put the Library’s resources to use in their classrooms.  Through workshops, video-conferences and programs at educational conferences, the Library’s education team can provide professional development for teachers across the nation. 

Grants Information
Find out how you can acquire additional funding for innovative projects in your classroom

Internships
If you have students, either high school or college students- whom you believe would benefit from interning with my DC or California office, please have them contact my office!

Library of Congress: Veterans History Project (VHP)
Home of the largest oral history project in American history - the Veterans History Project (VHP).  The VHP provides another excellent opportunity for educators to engage their students in learning about history while simultaneously participating in a service learning opportunity. Nearly 60,000 individual veteran’s stories are housed at the Library.

The VHP collects and preserves accounts of wartime service including letters, photographs, diaries, maps and other documents from American wartime veterans from WWI to current conflicts.  Students participating in the VHP through their schools have the rare opportunity to interview U.S. wartime veterans, hear personal recollections of their service to their country and ultimately have the interviews they conducted archived at the Library of Congress.  Toolkits and other materials to help educators and their students get started are located on the Library’s Web site at www.loc.gov/vets/kit.html.