Annotated+Resources+Set



====Using the format of annotated sources was a great introduction to primary and secondary resources geared to adults and students alike. The Library of Congress and the links within have an astounding amount of information that includes many first hand accounts of our history. For older students doing research, they need to be able to screen out unwanted information and choose the main concepts, while navigating between the links to visit the different modes of information. With a middle school student, the teacher might want to go to one particular media mode of information and have them find first hand accounts to interpret what was happening at that time, then write their interpretation. One of things I did not like about this site is that there is limited subject matter in certain categories, so it made it hard to find the information you needed.====

====Since I am going to be an elementry school teacher, I could pull different resources from the Library of Congress up on Smartboard to generate a simple lesson plan about a general history topic from the perspective of someone that is their age. One of the ways I would use this is to find a picture of another era and have students notice differences, then write comparisions about then vs. now. Everyone would get a chance to share one observation about what they saw. You could do that with music, films, pictures or radio broadcasts to convey how different it was in the past. All in all, it's a great way to motivate students to explore historical content tied in with personal experience.====